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From: emcphers@manu.cs.vt.edu (Frank McPherson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Problems with Menu, MenuItem and IntuiText structure declarations
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Date: 8 Jun 91 04:37:50 GMT
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I'm attempting to add a menu to a program I'm in the process of writing. 
I have run into a problem.  I can't get my initializations of those
structures past the compiler for some reason.  Here's what the 
declarations look like:

struct IntuiText quit_text =                              
   {                                                      
   0,1,                    /* FrontPen, BackPen */        
   JAM1,                   /* DrawMode */                 
   0,1,                    /* LeftEdge, TopEdge */        
   NULL,                   /* ITextFont */                
   (UBYTE *) "Quit",       /* IText */                    
   NULL                    /* NextText */                 
   };                                                     
struct MenuItem quit_item =                               
   {                                                      
   NULL,                   /* NextItem */                 
   0,0,                    /* LeftEdge, TopEdge */        
   150,10,                 /* Width, Height */            
   (ITEMTEXT|               /* Flags */                   
   ITEMENABLED|                                           
   HIGHNONE),                                             
   0L,                     /* MutualExclude */            
   (APTR) &quit_text,      /* ItemFill */                
   NULL,                   /* SelectFill */               
   NULL,                   /* Command (keyboard equiv.) */
   NULL,                   /* SubItem */                  
   0                       /* NextSelect */               
   };                                                     
struct Menu project_menu =                                
   {                                                      
   NULL,                   /* NextMenu */                 
   0,0,                    /* LeftEdge, TopEdge */        
   70,10,                  /* Width, Height */            
   MENUENABLED,            /* Flags */                    
   (UBYTE *) "Project",    /* MenuName */                 
   (APTR) &quit_item       /* FirstItem */                
   };

I'm trying to declare a menustrip with only one menu (called Project)
and a single selection (called Quit).  Both lines which have (APTR)
type casts give me the following error with SAS/C 5.10A:
Error 20: invalid constant expression

I'm stuck.  Any help will be appreciated.  Please reply via email to
avoid wasting bandwidth with what is probably a silly misake on my
part.  If you need more of the code in order to help, please ask me
for it.  

Thanks in advance for your help!

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