Scoping Problems

[bob357]

Hello everyone,

I'm a novice programmer and am having trouble with a text-adventure game I am programming. There are two classes, Hero and Monster, that contain functions that I want to be able to pass pointers to objects of the opposite class into, but the compiler complains that it cannot recognize the identifiers. I have included both "Hero.h" and "Monster.h" in each cpp file, and I get different compiler errors depending on the order I include the files, so I'm assuming it's a scoping issue. I can't figure out how to resolve it though. If anyone could give me some suggestions I would appreciate it. I've included some of the code to help clarify.

class Hero
{
public:
Hero();
void nameHero(string n);
void attack(Monster *monster);
...
}


class Monster
{
public:
Monster();
void nameMonster(string n);
void attack(Hero *hero);
...
}


I keep getting errors in the declaration of the 'attack' fuction for each class.

[sivadhas2006]

Hi,

do the forward declarations for the class.
It may solve your problem.

   class Monster;
   class Hero
   {
      public:
         Hero();
         void nameHero(string n);
         void attack(Monster *monster);
      ...
   }
 

Regards,
M.Sivadhas.

[vpawizard]

Another cleaner (but bit expensive) solution is use of virtual functions. Define attack() virtual in base class and inherit in Hero and Monster classes. Define functionality in these classes n in the calling function(assuming main()), point to appropriate object.

[bob357]

Thanks for the advice guys. I decided to take the easy way out with the forward declarations and it compiled right away.

[sivadhas2006]

Thanks for the advice guys. I decided to take the easy way out with the forward declarations and it compiled right away.

ok.

Regards,
M.Sivadhas.