Bugzilla – Bug 2918
Rename Rectangle class to silent Visual Studio errors
Last modified: 2018-05-17 14:28:06 EDT
Rectangle is the name of a GUI object in Windows. All of the GUI objects in Windows are accessible from C programs so they don't exist in a namespace. To fix this, a clean solution would be to rename our Rectangle class. I am now asking for a popular name. Please shout! My proposal: 2dRectangle or Rectangle2d.
Created attachment 3096 [details] Patch to rename Rectangle class to Rectangle2d I made a patch based on my name proposal (Rectangle2d).
(In reply to sebastien.deronne from comment #0) > Rectangle is the name of a GUI object in Windows. All of the GUI objects in > Windows are accessible from C programs so they don't exist in a namespace. > To fix this, a clean solution would be to rename our Rectangle class. > > I am now asking for a popular name. Please shout! > > My proposal: 2dRectangle or Rectangle2d. Before we give up so easily on this, is it really the case that this name does not exist in a namespace? According to this documentation, Rectangle is in a separate namespace. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing Is it possible that the configuration pulls in this namespace unnecessarily? Is there a 'using System.Drawing;' somewhere? If I am wrong about this, can someone point me to the full list of reserved names/keywords for Visual Studio? These are the only lists I found: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2e6a4at9.aspx https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/cpp/build/reference/reserved-words
I cannot help on this, I assumed Robert already made different attempts to fix.