Mac Forum / Programming / CodeWarrior / December 2003

I am having a really weird problem. I am using PowerPlant and CW Pro 8.3 ( I
have 9 bit I don't have the time to update to it yet)

I have an app that has an assistant window that helps users do some specific
tasks. This assistant window and different panes are all C++ based. Mainly
off of PowerPlant classes. What is happening in one of the pane classes in
the assistant window is that when I call my function to start the panel (
set up the panel correctly) it is jumping to a different class and different
method name within that class. Here is what I mean:

void
CXOBrowserCacheRemovalAssistantWindow::FinishCreateSelf()
{
...

// now get the panel items
   mCurrentPanel = (CXOAssitantView*) (mMultiPanleView->GetCurrentPanel());
   ThrowIfNil_( mCurrentPanel );
   
   mCurrentPanelIndex = mMultiPanleView->GetCurrentIndex();
   
   mCurrentPanel->SetWindowObject( this );

   mCurrentPanel->StartPanel();        <----- code jumps to wrong place
   
   MoveWindowTo( kCXOAssistantWindow_HorizStartPos,
                   kCXOAssistantWindow_VertStartPos);

}

So in the above code :

   mCurrentPanel->StartPanel();

It should jump to my class CXOBrowserCacheRemovalSelectPanel and class
method StartPanel():

CXOBrowserCacheRemovalSelectPanel::StartPanel();

Because that is the type that this panel is, but for some reason it is
jumping to

LPane*
LPane::FindPaneByID(
   PaneIDT    inPaneID)
{
   return (inPaneID == mPaneID) ? this : nil;
}

And not too the method that it should. The class
CXOBrowserCacheRemovalSelectPanel is based on LView which is based on LPane.
Here is the class hierarchy for CXOBrowserCacheRemovalSelectPanel

CXOBrowserCacheRemovalSelectPanel
CXOBrowserCacheRemovalAssitantView
CXOAssitantView
LView
LPane

The really weird thing is that it works fine in several other assistant
views that I have already. For the life of me I can not figure out why this
is doing this. I have recompiled the whole program, I have even tried
changing the name of this method just for this class and calling it directly
but that still jumps to the wrong place.

Has anyone else ever seen this? I have CW Pro 9, but have not ventured to
use it yet, because I don't want a bunch of errors cropping up and having to
fix compile errors right at the moment. But I guess I am going to have to
give that a try. Does anyone else have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Scott Mitchell