Nested Vector Nester Classes are Nested in my Brain

[Chad E. Dollins]

Hello someone said that I should check this forum out for help to my c++
problems.

I will admit at this point I may have really ran myself into the ground
with this code that I am writing, but I'm hoping for a little help from
you guys.

I have a class that needs use of a bread-first search of a quareney tree.
In this class I have a nested class that should be the implementation of a
tree that contains two nested classes of its own. Those two classes are a
Position representation of cartestian coordinate with accessors and
modifiers and comparison methods. The other inner class is a treenode
class. This class holds several things, first of all a * to a vector of
TreeNode * that represent children nodes, A Position as its Payload, A *
to the parent TreeNode, and * pointer to a Maze object no mentioned above.

So, my problem is that as I iterate over my children vector I would like
to access the payload members accessors of the current treenode in the
vector. Except I get this instead:
error: request for member `payload' in `
*(&p1)->__gnu_cxx::__n ormal_iterator< _Iterator, _Container>::op erator->
[with _Iterator = cs371p::prog::r obowars4::Robot ::Tree::TreeNod e**,
_Container =
std::vector<cs3 71p::prog::robo wars4::Robot::T ree::TreeNode*,
std::allocator< cs371p::prog::r obowars4::Robot ::Tree::TreeNod e*> >]()',
which
is of non-class type `cs371p::prog:: robowars4::Robo t::Tree::TreeNo de*'

The line of code looks like this:
vector< TreeNode *>::iterator p1;
for(p1 = children->begin();p1 != children->end();++p1)
This LINE RIGHT HERE->>>> p1->payload->getX();

Please, lemme know what you think any feed back is appreciated

--Chad

[Kai-Uwe Bux]

Chad E. Dollins wrote:

Hello someone said that I should check this forum out for help to my c++
problems.

I will admit at this point I may have really ran myself into the ground
with this code that I am writing, but I'm hoping for a little help from
you guys.

I have a class that needs use of a bread-first search of a quareney tree.
In this class I have a nested class that should be the implementation of a
tree that contains two nested classes of its own. Those two classes are a
Position representation of cartestian coordinate with accessors and
modifiers and comparison methods. The other inner class is a treenode
class. This class holds several things, first of all a * to a vector of
TreeNode * that represent children nodes, A Position as its Payload, A *
to the parent TreeNode, and * pointer to a Maze object no mentioned above.

So, my problem is that as I iterate over my children vector I would like
to access the payload members accessors of the current treenode in the
vector. Except I get this instead:
error: request for member `payload' in `
*(&p1)->__gnu_cxx::__n ormal_iterator< _Iterator,
_Container>::op erator->
[with _Iterator = cs371p::prog::r obowars4::Robot ::Tree::TreeNod e**,
_Container =
std::vector<cs3 71p::prog::robo wars4::Robot::T ree::TreeNode*,
std::allocator< cs371p::prog::r obowars4::Robot ::Tree::TreeNod e*> >]()',
which
is of non-class type `cs371p::prog:: robowars4::Robo t::Tree::TreeNo de*'

The line of code looks like this:
vector< TreeNode *>::iterator p1;
for(p1 = children->begin();p1 != children->end();++p1)
This LINE RIGHT HERE->>>> p1->payload->getX();
Try
(*p1)->payload->getX();

Keep in mind: p1 is an iterator; *p1 is the element of the vector it
designates; this element is itself a pointer pointing to some element that
presumably has a member "payload".

Please, lemme know what you think any feed back is appreciated

--Chad

Best

Kai-Uwe Bux

[Chad E. Dollins]

Ok same question as before accept this temp trying to call member function
with from an index of the vector<TreeNode * > * myMoves
error ridden code:

myMoves[x]->makeChildren() ;
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Kai-Uwe Bux wrote:

Chad E. Dollins wrote:

Hello someone said that I should check this forum out for help to my c++
problems.

I will admit at this point I may have really ran myself into the ground
with this code that I am writing, but I'm hoping for a little help from
you guys.

I have a class that needs use of a bread-first search of a quareney tree.
In this class I have a nested class that should be the implementation of a
tree that contains two nested classes of its own. Those two classes are a
Position representation of cartestian coordinate with accessors and
modifiers and comparison methods. The other inner class is a treenode
class. This class holds several things, first of all a * to a vector of
TreeNode * that represent children nodes, A Position as its Payload, A *
to the parent TreeNode, and * pointer to a Maze object no mentioned above.

So, my problem is that as I iterate over my children vector I would like
to access the payload members accessors of the current treenode in the
vector. Except I get this instead:
error: request for member `payload' in `
*(&p1)->__gnu_cxx::__n ormal_iterator< _Iterator,
_Container>::op erator->
[with _Iterator = cs371p::prog::r obowars4::Robot ::Tree::TreeNod e**,
_Container =
std::vector<cs3 71p::prog::robo wars4::Robot::T ree::TreeNode*,
std::allocator< cs371p::prog::r obowars4::Robot ::Tree::TreeNod e*> >]()',
which
is of non-class type `cs371p::prog:: robowars4::Robo t::Tree::TreeNo de*'

The line of code looks like this:
vector< TreeNode *>::iterator p1;
for(p1 = children->begin();p1 != children->end();++p1)
This LINE RIGHT HERE->>>> p1->payload->getX();

Try
(*p1)->payload->getX();

Keep in mind: p1 is an iterator; *p1 is the element of the vector it
designates; this element is itself a pointer pointing to some element that
presumably has a member "payload".

Please, lemme know what you think any feed back is appreciated

--Chad

Best

Kai-Uwe Bux

[Kai-Uwe Bux]

Chad E. Dollins wrote:

Ok same question as before accept this temp trying to call member function
with from an index of the vector<TreeNode * > * myMoves
error ridden code:

myMoves[x]->makeChildren() ;

You just need to keep track of the types involved:

myMoves is a *pointer* to a *vector* of *pointers*. Thus, first dereference
(now you have a vector) then use the subscript operator (now you have a
pointer), then dereference again to call the member function.

((*myMoves)[x])->makeChildren() ;
Best

Kai-Uwe Bux