Compiler erros make no sense?

[nano511]

Hello, me again :p. Im was following [url=http://www.aaroncox.net/tutorials/arcade/FallingBlocks.html] this [/url] tutorial and when i finished i went to compile, and i got these errors. Alot of them make no sense like, " Cannot convert from SDL_Rect to SDL_Rect ". And, "temp is skipped by 'case' label".

in the switch statement its talking about the case statements look the same besides different case names and different colors.

case SQUARE_BLOCK:
		SDL_Rect temp = { RED_SQUARE_X, RED_SQUARE_Y, 
						  SQUARE_MEDIAN * 2, SQUARE_MEDIAN * 2 };

		source = temp;
		break;

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1> main.cpp 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(54): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(48) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(55): error C2374: 'temp' : redefinition; multiple initialization 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(48) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(57): error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'SDL_Rect' to 'SDL_Rect' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(60): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(55) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(60): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(48) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(61): error C2374: 'temp' : redefinition; multiple initialization 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(48) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(63): error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'SDL_Rect' to 'SDL_Rect' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(66): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(61) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(66): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(55) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(66): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(48) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(67): error C2374: 'temp' : redefinition; multiple initialization 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(48) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(69): error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'SDL_Rect' to 'SDL_Rect' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(72): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(67) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(72): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(61) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(72): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(55) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(72): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(48) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(73): error C2374: 'temp' : redefinition; multiple initialization 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(48) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(75): error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'SDL_Rect' to 'SDL_Rect' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(78): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(73) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(78): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(67) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(78): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(61) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(78): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(55) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(78): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(48) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(79): error C2374: 'temp' : redefinition; multiple initialization 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(48) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(81): error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'SDL_Rect' to 'SDL_Rect' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(84): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(79) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(84): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(73) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(84): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label 1> c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(67) : see declaration of 'temp' 1>c:\users\david\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\falling blocks\csquare.h(84): error C2360: initialization of 'temp' is skipped by 'case' label

[hamsterman]

I can't say about "cannot convert from 'SDL_Rect' to 'SDL_Rect' ", but the others are because you can't declare things plainly in a switch. You need to wrap them in {} to fix scope problems. The thing is that only {} can show scope, and if you declare variables in cases, they are all sort of in the same scope, but some of them are never constructed, so it's a mess.

[nano511]

thanks that fixed it!