Re: [gtk-list] Declaring widgets

[kosinski ugrad cs ualberta ca]

> I was just toying around with GTK and I was wondering whether you have
> to declare widgets at the top of the function. I was more or less doing
> a copy & paste thing from the tutorial and when I tried to put a
> GtkWidget *window; mid-way through a source file I started getting
> errors during compiles (error parsing * on line 288 [or something like
> that]). The problem was solved by shifting the declaration up to the top
> of the main() function but I was wondering why you had to declare
> variables at the top of a funtion, it feels like Pascal all over again
>:)

This is a C-ism.  All variables have to be declared at the start of a
block, where a block is a group of code inside {}'s.  So, this will work:

void test()
{
  int var;
  int var2;

  if (var)
    {
      int var3; 
      int var4;

      printf("Testing\n");
    }
}

Brett.