i''m making a pong game for my first game and i have 3 classes: CBall, Cpong and Cpaddle and i want to include 2 instances of CPaddle as private data members of CPong here is the code for the CPong.h file class CPong { public: CPong(); ~CPong(); private: //my problem is here: CPaddle Player1("images/bluechucks.bmp"); CPaddle Player2("images/yellowchucks.bmp"); }; my problem is with creating the CPaddle objects I get this error: error C2059: syntax error : ''string'' i think this error means that you can''t send stuff to the CPaddle constructor if it''s in a class definition. how can i make it so that i can send something to the CPaddle class constructor? thanks in advance NiNo

You need to put the accepted parameters in an overloaded constructor

i.e.

CPaddle(const char *szName)

sorry i forgot to say that i did that here''s my overloaded constructor

CPaddle(LPCTSTR);

so i know it sends it there but it won''t let me do it in the class definition

thanks

NiNo

quote:
You need to put the accepted parameters in an overloaded constructor

i.e.

CPaddle(const char *szName)

wrong . Its the way you defined your file path, nino. I had this same problem a while ago - in C++, the "\" character is used for stuff like tabbing (\t), line carriage (\n), etc. What causes the error is C++ interprets "images/bluechucks.bmp" as "images \b luechucks.bmp". Since there is no such thing as "\b", you get the error. How do you fic it? Simple - use "\\". Peace.

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Edited by - Gaiiden on November 15, 2000 3:32:23 PM

Edited by - Gaiiden on November 15, 2000 3:43:16 PM

you need a variable name as well

Gaiiden that''s not the problem i used the same string in a different function and it works fine also i used
these / not \

Twoflower even if i use a variable it gives the same error

can anyone help me!!!!??!?!?

NiNO

I''ve just re-read your orignal question and it seems I missed the obvious.

You CAN''T call an overloaded constructor from the class definition since this is just a definition, not actual code.

quote: Original post by nino

Gaiiden that''s not the problem i used the same string in a different function and it works fine also i used
these / not \

NiNO

Yeah, you did didn''t you? Huh. Never tried that. Guess it would work tho. Ah well, tried.



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thanks for trying at least Gaiiden

TwoFlower: if i can''t call an overloaded constructor from a class definition then how can i call it?
i''ve tried doing it in a function and it works fine but then as soon as that function ends the instance gets destroyed

how can i make it so that i can call the CPaddle constructor automatically when the CPong class is created but still have the CPaddle instance usable throughout the whole life of the CPong class?

thanks alot guys

NiNo

I think you''re gonna have to create a seperate method for the CPaddle class which does the same as you constructer would, then call this method from the CPong constructor.

I could be wrong of course, but AFAIK that''s how to do it.