CGAffineTransform gives expected expression error

Question

IU am experienced in Java, but new to Objective C, so this might be very stupid. Nevertheless, I have been struggling for a while now, searching for the reason why I get an expected expression error from the following code.

CGAffineTransform move = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(middleX, middleY);
[shapePath applyTransform:move];
[shapePath stroke];
[shapePath fill];

shapePath is a UIBezierPath, middleX and middleY are CFFloats.

The error is a "parse issue", it just says "expected expression", on the first line above

Answer 1

Edit

With the extra context that you were using this inside a switch statement I know what is wrong.

You can't declare variables inside a switch statement without enclosing the cases in curly brackets. You can read about why this is in this answer (in short, they don't introduce new scopes).

For example, creating a variable like this gives the compiler error that you are facing:

but if you add braces around the case (like below) then you can create variables within that scope

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Original answer

There is no problem with the code that you have shown in that question. The following code works for me without any compiler errors:

UIBezierPath *shapePath = [UIBezierPath bezierPath];
CGFloat middleX = 10.0;
CGFloat middleY = 10.0;

CGAffineTransform move = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(middleX, middleY);
[shapePath applyTransform:move];
[shapePath stroke];
[shapePath fill];

You should look for other syntax errors in the just above what you have included in your question.

For example, as suggested in this answer, you may be missing a closing bracket (}) somewhere else in your code.

Answer 2

This code was in a switch clause. When I declared the move variable outside it, it disappeared. Don't know why though. Now it works.