IP_CLIENT_OPEN gremlins

ProgressiveCode

I've got a strange one I think. Short bit of boiled down code:

DEFINE_DEVICE
dev dvDEV = 0:5:0

DEFINE_CONSTANT
char sDEV_IP_ADDRESS[] = "'192.168.2.210'"
DEV_IP_PORT = 80
DEV_IP_MODE = 1
DEV_MAINLINE_TL = 71

TIMELINE_EVENT[DEV_MAINLINE_TL]
{
IP_CLIENT_OPEN(5,'192.168.2.210',80,1) // this works
// IP_CLIENT_OPEN(dvDEV.PORT,sDEV_IP_ADDRESS,DEV_IP_PORT,DEV_IP_MODE) // this doesn't work
}


I have not been able to figure out what is wrong with my line above that isn't working. Obviously I can work around it, but any ideas out there? Is it something about being inside a timeline_event that the compiler isn't pulling in the right values? Seems like that shouldn't be the problem to me. The fact that I am passing constants into the function? Again, doesn't seem like that shouldn't the problem either. And I'm 100% certain that I've used constants before and they've worked. I also thought maybe it was because I used dvDEV.PORT as one of the parameters. I think in the past I've just created a constant with the port value. But I've seen others use .PORT before. So that shouldn't be the problem. Maybe I'm missing something obvious.

ProgressiveCode

My post is inserting a space in "DEV_IP_P ORT" that I am not typing. I've tried to edit out the space but it will not go away. Anyway, the space is not in the code.

a_riot42

Try this perhaps?

ProgressiveCode wrote: »

DEFINE_CONSTANT
char sDEV_IP_ADDRESS[15] = '192.168.2.210'
long DEV_IP_PORT = 80
DEV_IP_MODE = 1
DEV_MAINLINE_TL = 71

TIMELINE_EVENT[DEV_MAINLINE_TL]
{
IP_CLIENT_OPEN(5,'192.168.2.210',80,1) // this works
// IP_CLIENT_OPEN(dvDEV.PORT,sDEV_IP_ADDRESS,DEV_IP_PORT,DEV_IP_MODE) // this doesn't work
}

vining

try it w/o the double quotes on the IP address.

Actually that's what Paul just posted although I originaly thought he was just trying to get you to encase your code with code tags for the post but he removed the double quotes too.

ericmedley

Try this instead
sDEV_IP_ADDRESS[] = '192.168.2.210'

I'm not at my desk right now to try it myself or I would.

Hedberg

I would make the same suggestion. It's because a string literal with single quotes is a constant and a string expression (double quotes) is not. This is a bug. A constant declaration with an illegal right hand side should not compile.

ProgressiveCode

Hedberg wrote: »

I would make the same suggestion. It's because a string literal with single quotes is a constant and a string expression (double quotes) is not. This is a bug. A constant declaration with an illegal right hand side should not compile.

I agree with the assessment that this is a compiler bug, and it should not compile. Or it should compile and work.

char sDEV_IP_ADDRESS[] = '192.168.2.210'

That fixed it.