Include statement error, Auto complete and Variable colors

Josh122 · May 29, 2020, 7:12pm

My code works but a few things bug me that I can’t figure out how to fix.

-The red squiggles under the include statements. I remember the instructor saying that this wasn’t a big deal but it annoys me and I think it might be causing other problems.

-Visual Studio Code doesn’t auto-complete my variable names such as HiddenWord or Lives, however, if I create a new variable on the .cpp page it will auto-complete as long as I am still on the same page.

-Also in the instructors’ header file int32 and FString are an aqua color whereas in mine they are just white and when I hover over Lives or HiddenWord it just says " HiddenWord"

-The last thing is the color of my variables is different than the instructors but only sometimes, for example, when doing “++Lives” it is white but when I do “HiddenWord.Len()” the HiddenWord part is light blue

I am running the most recent version of Visual Studio Code and am using the Dark plus theme

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Aryan_Kumar · May 30, 2020, 6:48am

It is because of a bug in UE4.25. Try downgrading to UE4.24 and the errors will go away.

DanM · May 30, 2020, 9:28am

Have you followed these steps?

Josh122 · May 30, 2020, 4:03pm

Thanks!! That definitely helped! I am however still experiencing an include error. I think it has to do with the part where you replace some of the text with your projects name. I am currently working on the Bull Cow Game and as far as I can tell my project name and the name the folder I am working in are different, (I think that the project name is “BullCowGame” and the folder is “BullCowGame-starter-kit”). I have tried both of these and some combinations but none of them have worked so far.

Aryan_Kumar · May 30, 2020, 4:35pm

Don’t know why this would still not work, have you compiles after making the changes?

Josh122 · May 30, 2020, 4:40pm

Yes, I did compile after saving and making the changes then restarted visual studio code and still had the include errors.

Aryan_Kumar · May 30, 2020, 4:43pm

It still might be running the old code somehow. Try and delete the Intermediate and Binaries folder and rebuild to manually force it to compile new code. I highly suggest you to take a backup of your project before doing so.

Josh122 · May 30, 2020, 5:20pm

Unfortunately this didn’t work either

DanM · May 31, 2020, 10:03am

@sampattuzzi, you seem to be only providing Windows specific defines. Do you have a mac and/or Linux machine to get these?

sampattuzzi · June 1, 2020, 12:47pm

I don’t. If somebody does have a Linux or Mac, please:

Create a project in 4.24
Generate a VSCode project
Copy the contents of the defines
Paste them here.

Then I should be able to upload files for those too.

Josh122 · June 2, 2020, 5:08pm

I am using a Mac and this is what my defines for 4.24.3 was, when I pasted it into my bull cow game project and changed the project name it caused some other problems though.

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],

DanM · June 2, 2020, 5:07pm

Which were?

Josh122 · June 2, 2020, 5:58pm

Line 10 in the header file it says the colon is a error and when I hover over it it says “expected a ';”

There is a similar problem on line 4 of the .cpp file where it says the same thing.

Then on line 74, 76, and 88 it gives me the error “expected a declaration”

In addition the variables are no longer colored.

DanM · June 3, 2020, 8:59am

What is the defines you are using for that project?

Josh122 · June 3, 2020, 4:27pm

I am using the ones I got from 4.24.3

DanM · June 5, 2020, 8:57am

On line 74 you aren’t using the right character. It should be minus - not a dash.

soniclinkerman · June 7, 2020, 12:56am

It might be because you haven’t changed

`UE_PROJECT_NAME=MYPROJECTNAME`
"MYPROJECT_VTABLE=DLLEXPORT_VTABLE",
"MYPROJECT_API=",

What I did was change MYPROJECTNAME to the name of my game file.

Here’s an example

"UE_PROJECT_NAME=BullCowGame",
"BULLCOWGAME_VTABLE=DLLEXPORT_VTABLE",
"BULLCOWGAME_API=",

I’m using a MAC and VS code along with the latest engine update of unreal and this seemed to remove the same errors you had

Josh122 · June 8, 2020, 5:14pm

Thank you for your suggestions, I had already changed the “MyProjectName” and I believe I was using the right character as a minus I did retype it and it gave me the same error and I even copied and pasted the character you posted here and it gave me the same error, the code was running fine it was just a bug in Visual Studio Code not recognizing the defines.

Josh122 · June 8, 2020, 5:25pm

I’m still not sure what the problem was but I was able to fix it. I copied the header file and .cpp file as a text file. I then deleted everything else that I had and downloaded the BullCowGame-starter-kit.zip from Lesson 35. Importing Bull Cow Game. I copied over my header and .cpp files that I saved from before into the new game folder. Afterward, I copied the defines for mac into the c_cpp_properties.json file and changed the MyProjectName by using Command F and searched for MyProjectName as it is in a different location in the file than the video for windows showed. I saved and compiled and it seemed to work great. Thanks to all of those who posted suggestions!

system · June 9, 2020, 5:25pm

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