How to initialize a member struct

[Bob Altman]

Hi all,

If I have a class that includes an instance of a struct as a member, how do
I initialize that struct? I can't find a syntax for the constructor
"initialize r list" that works.

For example, suppose MyStruct has 3 int members. I've tried something like
this:

class Test {
private:
MyStruct X
}

// Constructor
Test::Test(void ) : X(1,2,3) // Try initializing all 3 struct members...

[Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]]

Hi Bob,

Using initializer list for another structure member means calling that
structure's constructor. So that structure must has a constructor matching
the signature with the initializer list calling, like this:
struct MyStruct
{
int m_a;
int m_b;
int m_c;

MyStruct(int a, int b, int c)
{
m_a = a;
m_b = b;
m_c = c;
}
};

class Test {
Test::Test(void ) : X(1,2,3)
{
}
private:
MyStruct X;
};
Hope it helps.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
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[Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]]

If I create a MyStruct in "normal" code, I can just write:

>
MyStruct x = {1, 2, 3};

But I apparently can't include the initializer list (the "{1, 2, 3}") in a
class definition header file where I declare a member variable of type
MyStruct. This leaves me with trying to come up with a way to initialize
the struct in the class constructor. The ugly way to do this is to
explicitly initialize each member of the structure in the constructor
code. But I'm looking for a way to use an initializer list to initialize
the entire struct all at once.

With a helper function:

static MyStruct init_my_struct( int a, int b, int c)
{
const MyStruct x = { a, b, c };
return x;
}

MyConstructor() : member(init_my_ struct(1, 2, 3)) {}

Sigh... I told you it was complicated...

>
""Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]"" <je***@online.m icrosoft.comwro te in message
news:XU******** *****@TK2MSFTNG HUB02.phx.gbl.. .

>Hi Bob,

Using initializer list for another structure member means calling that
structure's constructor. So that structure must has a constructor
matching
the signature with the initializer list calling, like this:
struct MyStruct
{
int m_a;
int m_b;
int m_c;

MyStruct(int a, int b, int c)
{
m_a = a;
m_b = b;
m_c = c;
}
};

class Test {
Test::Test(voi d) : X(1,2,3)
{
}
private:
MyStruct X;
};
Hope it helps.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Community Support
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[Bob Altman]

Thanks Ben. I guess that's about as clean a solution as I'm likely to get.

- Bob

"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rb*@nospam.nos pamwrote in message
news:uG******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP04.phx.gbl. ..

>If I create a MyStruct in "normal" code, I can just write:

MyStruct x = {1, 2, 3};

But I apparently can't include the initializer list (the "{1, 2, 3}") in
a class definition header file where I declare a member variable of type
MyStruct. This leaves me with trying to come up with a way to initialize
the struct in the class constructor. The ugly way to do this is to
explicitly initialize each member of the structure in the constructor
code. But I'm looking for a way to use an initializer list to initialize
the entire struct all at once.

With a helper function:

static MyStruct init_my_struct( int a, int b, int c)
{
const MyStruct x = { a, b, c };
return x;
}

MyConstructor() : member(init_my_ struct(1, 2, 3)) {}

>Sigh... I told you it was complicated...

>>
""Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]"" <je***@online.m icrosoft.comwro te in message
news:XU******* ******@TK2MSFTN GHUB02.phx.gbl. ..

>>Hi Bob,

Using initializer list for another structure member means calling that
structure's constructor. So that structure must has a constructor
matching
the signature with the initializer list calling, like this:
struct MyStruct
{
int m_a;
int m_b;
int m_c;

MyStruct(in t a, int b, int c)
{
m_a = a;
m_b = b;
m_c = c;
}
};

class Test {
Test::Test(vo id) : X(1,2,3)
{
}
private:
MyStruct X;
};
Hope it helps.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Community Support
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