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The trouble overview

When you create GUI or UI Design application in Carbide C++, the IDE generates a lots of files and texts for you.

After one of the such usual creation the error was detected:

"syntax error"

at line with instruction:

NAME ENUM

at .RSS file.

It was difficult to understand the problem. Especially for those who doesn't know about all specifics of Symbian programming

The reason of a trouble

The problem was that the project's name was "EnumeratedText".

After Carbide started generation of the code, it had taken first 4 letters from project's name (e.g. Enum) and translated them to Capital letters.

After that this 4 letters were assigned to a Name tag of .rss file:

NAME ENUM

But the ENUM (or enum) appear to be a keyword of .rss file syntax! That is why syntax error appeared.

Other discovered cases

I made a research and found out other keywords and projects names which can cause the same error at post-generation stage. See table 1.

Solution of the trouble

Even if your project's name starts with 4 first letters that are listed in table 1, you can just change the Name tag value in your .rss file. For example:

NAME ENU2