[Swftools-common] RE: Problem in SWFOutputDev.cc in Pdf2Swf

[Keith Trummel]

Sorry for not responding earlier, but I forgot to respond to the autogenerated email when I subscribed to the email list so I wasn't getting the emails.

 

To answer your question, I am compiling on a range of platforms including Solaris using Forte.  This compiler warns about hiding virtuals.

 

Keith

 

 From: Matthias Kramm

Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] Problem in SWFOutputDev.cc in Pdf2Swf

Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:11:53 +0200

User-agent: Mutt/1.5.6i

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:59:31PM -0700, Keith Trummel wrote:
> This is for version 0.6.3 of SwfTools.  In the file SWFOutputDev.cc is
> the class SWFOutputDev which derives from OutputDev and has a function
> vwfinType3Char which is declared as follows
>  
> ...
>
> Presumably the function in SWFOutputDev.cc is supposed to override the
> function, but because of the different signature it simply hides the
> other function.

That is (was) a known issue. It's fixed in CVS and the current snapshots.

How did you find this, btw.? Are you using some kind of code review tool
like lint?

Greetings

Matthias