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Bug 1493

Summary: event is a keyword. using it for variable name confuses Visual Studio
Product: SDL Reporter: Jeff Shanab <jshanab42>
Component: eventsAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: minor    
Priority: P2 CC: leeor_net
Version: 2.0.0   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows 7   

Description Jeff Shanab 2012-05-12 13:36:25 UTC 
A minor inconvienance for a poor IDE, but event as used in the SDL_Event struct and many arguments in the library confuse Visual studio and defeat the ability to dig into them and get the value during debugging. 

I changed it in my local build to "evnt" as a test and it was not to bad of a change. 10 min
Comment 1 Leeor Dicker 2013-07-29 08:23:54 UTC 
Which version of Visual Studio? Because I have no issues with VS2008/VS2010. You can't hover over it to get debug information but adding a watch clears it up.
Comment 2 Jeff Shanab 2013-07-30 06:49:03 UTC 
It was visual studio 2010. Since than I started using visual assistantX and that improves the intellisense in such a case.
Comment 3 Sam Lantinga 2013-07-31 00:00:44 UTC 
The API is frozen for the SDL 2.0 release, so we're not going to take care of this now.