Wrong argument types in variable assignment

April 4, 2009 at 12:46
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While doing some modifications to the class SalesFormLetter, I ran into something very strange. I did two simple things:

Adding an object member variable to the class declaration.

JournalId journalId;

Creating a parameter method for this variable.

Public JournalId parmJournalId(JournalId _journalId = journalId)
{
    ;
    journalId = _journalId;

    return journalId;
}

On compilation, this didn’t show any errors, but when the code was executed, the debugger popped up, and the following error was thrown upon assignment:

Wrong argument types in variable assignment

I recompiled it, ran it again, same error. A colleague took a look at my code and couldn’t find anything wrong with it either, and suggested to stop the AOS and rebuild the .aoi file, but that didn’t do it either.
When I debugged I noticed the the object member journalId didn’t sow up in the list of members in the debugger. A moment after that my colleague asked if I had tried compile forward yet, and I immediately knew that would solve the problem. It did.

MSDN states on several occasions:

It is important to compile forward from the parent class when adding a variable to a classDeclaration of a class that is inherited by other classes.

This was the case with the SalesFormLetter modifications I did.

So always remember to use compile forward when modifying super classes, and it will save you a lot of trouble.

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  1. KrMee

    on April 6, 2009 at 16:25

    Legend: “A colleague”, also known as KrMee :-)

  2. Brett

    on March 19, 2010 at 04:58

    Thanks for your blog post. I was banging my head against a wall for at least half an hour, unable to figure out why a string input couldn’t be assigned to a string variable…. – the compile forward tip worked a treat!

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