Another Class where method calls show the "does not name a type" problem

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Hello,

I'm quite new to arduino and programming in general. My problem however is quite strange, since it seems others don't have a problem with this particular class. The class im talking about is SendOnlySoftwareSerial. I downloaded the class from the MultiWii project website and tried to use it in my own project, but somehow it isn't recognized by the aruino ide (Linux, v1.0.5). I created a test project, and stripped the class to bare minimum, but the problem remains. Below three files are all in a 'test' directory:

SendOnlySoftwareSerial.h

#ifndef SendOnlySoftwareSerial_h
#define SendOnlySoftwareSerial_h

#include "Arduino.h"
#include <inttypes.h>
#include <Stream.h>

class SendOnlySoftwareSerial : public Stream
{
private:
  uint16_t _tx_delay;
  uint16_t _inverse_logic;
  uint16_t _errors_ok;

  // private methods
  void setTX(uint8_t transmitPin);

public:
  // public methods
  SendOnlySoftwareSerial(uint8_t transmitPin, bool inverse_logic = false, bool errors_ok = false);
  ~SendOnlySoftwareSerial();
  void begin(long speed);
  void end();
  int peek();
  size_t write(uint8_t b);

  virtual int read();
  virtual int available();
  virtual void flush();
};

#endif  // SendOnlySoftwareSerial_h

SendOnlySoftwareSerial.cpp

#include <Stream.h>
#include <avr/pgmspace.h>
#include "SendOnlySoftwareSerial.h"

SendOnlySoftwareSerial::SendOnlySoftwareSerial(uint8_t transmitPin, bool inverse_logic /* = false */, bool errors_ok /* = false */) : 
  _tx_delay(0),
  _inverse_logic(inverse_logic),
  _errors_ok(errors_ok)
{
  setTX(transmitPin);
}

SendOnlySoftwareSerial::~SendOnlySoftwareSerial()
{
  end();
}

void SendOnlySoftwareSerial::setTX(uint8_t tx)
{
  pinMode(tx, OUTPUT);
  digitalWrite(tx, HIGH);
}

void SendOnlySoftwareSerial::begin(long speed)
{
  _tx_delay = 200;
}
void SendOnlySoftwareSerial::end()
{
}
size_t SendOnlySoftwareSerial::write(uint8_t b)
{
    return 0;
}
int SendOnlySoftwareSerial::available()
{
    return 0;
}
int SendOnlySoftwareSerial::read()
{
    return -1;
}
void SendOnlySoftwareSerial::flush()
{
    return;
}
int SendOnlySoftwareSerial::peek()
{
    return -1;
}

test.ino

#include "SendOnlySoftwareSerial.h"

#define TELEMETRY_FRSKY_SOFTSERIAL_PIN 2

SendOnlySoftwareSerial sserial(TELEMETRY_FRSKY_SOFTSERIAL_PIN, true, true);
sserial.begin(9600);

This results in:

Error compiling.
test.ino:7:1: error: ‘sserial’ does not name a type

The same error comes, if I try to call the public 'write' method of the class, but doesn't come I just call the constructor (which does call the private 'setTX' method). Is there something obvious I'm missing here?

I'd appreciate any help... tia, juhis

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Is that test.ino file ALL of your sketch? sserial.begin() is a method call, and cam not happen outside of a function.