Error 10327 confusion

dir is a std_logic, and therefore not a number, and notsurewhyitworkswiththis is an integer. The types are incompatible.

I am being a absolute **** and adding the wrong damn thing. It's meant to be cntconst. Thanks .

Just to add, your process is not a clocked process. It is using clk as a transparent latch enable. I suggest following the correct template:

process(clk, reset)
begin
  if reset = '1' then
    --async reset here
  elsif rising_edge(clk) then
    --sync stuff goes here
  end if;
end process;

Thanks, that makes sense.

Open the RTL Viewer to see what Quartus inferred from your code. Post the corrected code. In the original one, the counter enable was used as an asynchronous signal. It should be:

I made some changes to it, it is slightly neater now but now it won't compile because it is expecting a bracket or something...error 10500

library ieee;
use ieee.std_logic_1164.all;
use ieee.numeric_std.all;
entity counter is
	generic
	(
	startnum : natural := 0;
	N : natural := 16
	);
	port
	( 
		--Inputs
		EN		:	in std_logic;
		synchr	:	in std_logic;
		asyncr	:	in std_logic;
		dir	:	in	std_logic;			--0 for count down 1 for count up.
		clk	: in std_logic;
		--Outputs
		Y	:	out natural range startnum to n-1
	);
end entity;
architecture counter_v1 of counter is
signal cntconst	:	integer;
begin
process (dir)				--dir in sensitivity list as when this changes we want this process to run.
begin
if (dir = '0') then
	cntconst <= -1; 				--this will count down when added onto to the counter value
end if;
if (dir = '1') then
	cntconst <= 1;
end if;
end process;
process (asyncr, clk)
begin
    if(asyncr = '1') then
        y < = 0;
    elsif(rising_edge(clk)) then
        if(en = '1') then
            if(dir = '1') then
                if(y < y'high) then
                    y < = y + 1;
                end if;
            else
                if(y > y'low) then
                    y <= y - 1;
                end if;
            end if;
        end if;
    end if;
end process;
end counter_v1;

if(y < y'high) then

y < = 0;