Hi all, In compiling Mark Kriegsman's ColorWaves with Palettes I keep getting this error: expected

Freddie_Olivas · May 1, 2016, 10:05pm

Hi all,
In compiling Mark Kriegsman’s ColorWaves with Palettes I keep getting this error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before ‘(’ token, right after the last Define_Gradient_Palette. I’m guessing that this is a valid code as I haven’t made any modifications to it and I’m sure Mark would not post a bunky piece of code. So if I haven’t changed a thing and keep getting this error and have the latest FastLED, what might be the problem? Thanks to all here.

Ken_White · May 1, 2016, 10:52pm

Hi Freddie:
I just downloaded from GitHub:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/kriegsman/8281905786e8b2632aeb

ColorWavesWithPalettes.ino

#include "FastLED.h"

// ColorWavesWithPalettes
// Animated shifting color waves, with several cross-fading color palettes.
// by Mark Kriegsman, August 2015
//
// Color palettes courtesy of cpt-city and its contributors:
//   http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt-city/
//
// Color palettes converted for FastLED using "PaletteKnife" v1:

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which is Mark’s Color Waves With Palettes . It compiled perfectly on the Arduino 1.0.6 IDE and the Arduino 1.6.7 IDE as is from GitHub.

However later, I did comment out:

//.setDither(BRIGHTNESS < 255);

when I uploaded it to the Uno since it would not upload to the Uno using the Arduino 1.6.7 IDE with that command. It ran fine with an Arduino Uno and a NeoPixel ring doing the aforementioned comment out and making the changes to use a NeoPixel ring on pin 6.

Do you have more than one copy of FastLED on your computer?

Freddie_Olivas · May 1, 2016, 11:04pm

Hey Ken, not anymore. I’ve ditched all previous FastLED versions and now only have version 3.1.0. I believe that this is the latest version. Now I’m getting this error:
Using library FastLED in folder: C:\Users\Fred\Documents\Arduino\libraries\FastLED (legacy)
exit status 1
‘TProgmemRGBGradientPalettePtr’ does not name a type

Stuck again.

Freddie_Olivas · May 2, 2016, 12:22am

Lost my last post. Downloaded from GitHub Mark’s sketch called ColorWavesWithPalettes.ino.
Without changing a thing I hit compile and still this error shows up:

Using library FastLED3.1.0 in folder: C:\Users\Fred\Documents\Arduino\libraries\FastLED3.1.0 (legacy)
exit status 1
expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before ‘(’ token

There’s something amiss here and I don’t know what it is.
Mark?