no viable alternative at input ')'

Former Member over 8 years ago

Hello,

I'm seeing red errors briefly in my Eclipse console. But they disappear when the Simulator starts up and my app runs as I expect it to in the simulator.

BUILD: ERROR: C:\Garmin\Projects\WhiteWatch\source\AMazeingView.mc:144:  no viable alternative at input ')'

BUILD: ERROR: C:\Garmin\Projects\WhiteWatch\source\AMazeingView.mc:146:  missing '}' at 'else'

BUILD: ERROR: C:\Garmin\Projects\WhiteWatch\source\AMazeingView.mc:151:  extraneous input 'dc' expecting {'}', 'using

... etc

I'm wondering if it's to do with my IF statements. Are we allowed to use the || or operator like in Java? They seem to work ok. The line in question, doesn't seem to have any relationship to the error message, i.e. if I insert a blank line so that 144 is blank, it still reports the same error on the same line number.

If I leave the simulator running, when I launch my app, no errors are shown. It's only when I launch my app when the simulator is not yet running do I see these messages.

Any ideas please?

travis.vitek over 8 years ago

Can you provide source so someone could try to reproduce it and produce a test case?

Former Member over 8 years ago

eeek. I might have to tidy up my spaghetti code first. ;-)

Thanks, Travis.

Actually, I think I have found the issue. For some reason my Eclipse console is shooting up to the top of the page and I'm seeing earlier error messages. I quickly hit CTRL-A and then CTRL-C before the console disappeared and pasted it so I could read it. Scrolling to the bottom showed no errors.

It's interesting that the console output in Eclipse disappears when the Simulator is launched and is replaced by:

Found Transport: tcp

Connecting...

Connecting to device...

Device Version 0.1.0

Device id 1 name "A garmin device"

Shell Version 0.1.0

Copying file.... 1% complete

...., etc.