VS2008 Some class functions grayed out in IDE drop down menu (out of scope) ?

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I'm am hummin' along in my c++ project that has a myfile.cpp and a myfile.h which contains the definition of the main class myclass.

Out of the blue sky (right) a good number of functions in the class that have always been navigable via the drop down in myfile.cpp have appeared to have gone out of scope and are grayed out in the drop down menu.

Clicking on the grayed function(s) jump me to their definition in Myfile.h rather than their implementation in Myfile.cpp.

Everything looks ok and the project compiles and runs as expected but I have lost navigation to the functions implementation via the drop down menu and have had to resort to searching.

Too many functions and or variables? There is a truckload of them.

Thanks for helping.

:Ron

Posted 25-Jul-13 11:47am

Ron Anders

Updated 26-Jul-13 3:27am

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Stefan_Lang · Answer 1 · 2013-07-25T21:03:00

There are a few things that can confound Intellisense (which is responsible for color-coding your code):

1. You may be using a #ifdef statement somewhere (possible hidden in some header) that effectively excludes the parts of the code that you are looking at.

2. If you have multiple copies of your project in different directories, searching stuff via the find dialog within your "solution" may accidentally search in the wrong directory; If in that directory, the code looks different, this may lead to apparently incorrect views. Hover over the tab header of your editor window to get a tooltip showing the actual location of that file.

There may be other reasons, but it's hard to tell without seeing the actual project.

Ron Anders · Answer 2 · 2013-07-26T03:25:00

Well, I fixed it.

There were 5 static thread start functions in the Myfile.h that were defined in the class.
I moved them out of the class and all the functions within the class are now not grayed in the ide drop down and we're back in business!

I arrived at the solution by examining a diff between and old .h file and the current one.
The only difference was 3 more of these static thread start functions in the latest file.

Thanks for all your help

:Ron

KarstenK · Answer 3 · 2013-07-25T19:57:00

Solution 1

check your defines and targets. Maybe you compile for Windows XP or ".net compact"

If you have written which functions are grayed the answer WOULD be better :-O

Posted 25-Jul-13 19:57pm

KarstenK

VS2008 Some class functions grayed out in IDE drop down menu (out of scope) ?

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