Does Bada IDE have code completion and meaningful error messages? - c++

Question

I'm trying to upgrade a Bada app from 1.2 to 2.0 with no experience of Bada. I have the project building and can run it in the emulator but I get a load of warnings and I cant click the text boxes to get a keyboard and enter anything in the emulator.
Unfortunately the warning messages are completely cryptic to me, for example
SearchForm::SearchForm(void) :
gives the warning message "when initialized here"
What when initialized here??!!
Also, all the TryCatch statements show syntax error, and nothing I have found on the internet seems to make it happy:
result OnDraw()
{
result r = E_SUCCESS;
Canvas* readerCanvas = GetCanvasN();
TryCatch(E_SUCCESS == GetLastResult(), "Failed to get canvas: %S", GetErrorMessage(r));
if (readerCanvas)
{
Rectangle tempRect(0, 0, GetBounds().width, GetBounds().height);
Point tempPoint(0, 0);
r = readerCanvas->Copy(tempPoint, *iDrawingCanvas, tempRect);
TryCatch(E_SUCCESS == r, "Failed to copy canvas: %S", GetErrorMessage(r));
delete readerCanvas;
}
return r;
CATCH:
delete readerCanvas;
return r;
}
The TryCatch line says "statement has no effect", if I try edit it to match the examples I'v found I get a syntax error.
What's up with this?

Answer 1

It seems like you are trying to outdo your IDE's supposed bad messages by quoting them entirely out of context and only partially. Let me break it down:
TryCatch
The macro is defined as
TryCatch(condition, cleanup, message)
When the condition is evaluated to false, this will goto CATCH. You could think of the macro like this:
if (!condition)
{
goto CATCH;
}
For example, you can use it like this:
void TryCatchDemo::UseTryCatch(void)
{
TryCatch(1==2, , "1 is NOT 2");
AppLog("This should not appear");
CATCH:
AppLog("Catch block");
}
Now, your second parameter is a string literal, "Failed to get canvas: %S", which unsurprisingly, doesn't have an effect when used as statement:
"does nothing";
123; // just like this
So the compiler is being nice to warn you of the fact that you probably had something else in mind. Note also, that statement has no effect is not a syntax error.
"when initialized here"
Know your language! The code quoted isn't legal C++ to begin with:
SearchForm::SearchForm(void) :
At best this is the beginning of a constructor definition, with a missing initializer list and body. In the C++ language spec, class members are initialized in the order in which they were declared, not in the order in which they appear in the initializer list. A minimal example:
struct X
{
int a, b;
X() : b(), a() {}
};
This results in the compiler warning:
/tmp/test.cpp|3 col 13| warning: ‘X::b’ will be initialized after [-Wreorder]
/tmp/test.cpp|3 col 10| warning: ‘int X::a’ [-Wreorder]
/tmp/test.cpp|4 col 6| warning: when initialized here [-Wreorder]
As you can see, you not only clipped the code but also the warnings! If you read the whole message and the whole code, the fix would be pretty obvious:
struct X
{
int a, b;
X() : a(), b() {}
};
Bonus: In case you were wondering, why the ordering matters, consider what happens when you do:
struct X
{
int a, b;
X() : b(), a(b) {} // OOPS!
};
Hope this helps
Using a Format String with the Macros
Edit I just noted this: it is probably not supported to use format strings inside the Try/Catch macros:
Each of the macros that support a message parameters actually support format strings. A format string is similar to the format string of printf on systems that support it (bada does NOT support it)