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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: float c=[sliderA floatValue] won't compile-why?
Message-ID: <1791@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 23 Jun 91 11:39:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: toaster.1791
References: <1163.2862231f@amy.skidmore.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1163.2862231f@amy.skidmore.edu> tholland@amy.skidmore.edu writes:
>c = [sliderA floatValue];

>"warning: cannot find method
> warning: return type for 'floatValue" defaults to id
> warning: incompatible types in assignment"
>
>What's going wrong here ??  Suggestions ?

You left out

#import <appkit/Slider.h>

Since sliderA is presumably an id (rather than a "static type"),
your code will still compile if you pull in ANYTHING with a
floatValue method.  But you really want to declare what you
use...

					-=EPS=-