The reason that class members are private by default is because, in general, an object of a class should be a self-contained entity such that the data that make the object what it is should be encapsulated and only changed under controlled circumstances. Public data members should be very much the exception. As you’ll see a little later in the chapter, though, it’s also possible to place other restrictions on the accessibility of members of a class.
i have seen many c++ programs, where the private members from a header file are accessed in the source file. why is happening? As to my knowledge a private member cannot be accessed until it is friend function or member.
I've been reading the tutorials on Friendship and Inheritance [URL] ..... but I still don't understand why I can't access members of the same struct type.
The code above is located in a source file, where the function isAlphanumeric passes a char value, and Message is the struct containing the string I want to access. Below is the declaration of the struct and string located in the corresponding header file.
My frustration comes when I try to call and assign messageText like the tutorial does to its private members, but I keep getting an error saying I can't access the string because it is a private member. Is there a way to access the string without having to pass it through the function wordBeginsAt?
So I have an ImageManager class, Board class, and Box class. In Board.h I can declare ImageManager imgr; and in Board's constructor I can use imgr and its functions and such. However, in Box.h when I try and declare ImageManager imgr; I get the error "cannot access member declared in class ImageManager". Both declarations are under private, and exactly the same, but one doesn't work. Also, is there a way to only have one instance of ImageManager?
when vpStatus is nonsense and unknown, the vaporPressure should not have a value; and if I calculate out a value for vaporPressure, the vpStatus can be set as known.
I am wondering if there is any set, pair or other structure can hold this two members together, so that when I change one's value, the other guy will also change accordingly.
I've been creating an API and I'm now stuck on callbacks. There are many APIs that allow callbacks to class members(e.g. Windows API) using a void pointer to the object. I've searched the internet for hours and I can't find one example of how to use the "hidden object parameter" of an class method pointer that doesn't use std::function/bind or boost::function/bind. Any information on how API's like Windows API are able to use class methods as callbacks
i have private data look like Peiceorder peiceOrders[20]; it looks like a array but does not have name type like int or char? why is that and what should I use the data should I write Peiceorder peiceOrders[20]=........ like that? or?
I have a little problem with template classes and their specialization. Here is a short example:
template <typename T> struct A{ // some typedefs
[Code]....
The above example is not compiling, because of the assignment of the const static double. Double needs a constructor, but that doesn't work (or seems not to work) with static.
I'm not sure, if it works at all in C++ that way. All I want is a template struct with some typedefs and a constant which is different for different specializations. Don't think it has to be static, but that would be better style, wouldn't it?
I am doing C++ data structures exercises, and I am still learning some of the more basic concepts. I have a parent class:
template<class T> class linkedListType { public: protected: int count; nodeType<T> *first; nodeType<T> *last; private: };
Derived class:
#include "linkedListType.h" template<class T> class orderedLinkedList: public linkedListType<T> { public: void mergeList(orderedLinkedList<T> &list1, orderedLinkedList<t> &list2) { first = list1.first; ... } private: };
There is more code in my mergeList() function, but I included the line that is giving me problems. The error that my CodeBlocks compiler is giving me is that 'first' was not declared in this scope.
Strangely enough, if I change it to this->first, the error disappears.
1. Why does it not recognise 'first'? 2. Why would this->first work at all? Is the 'this' object a smart pointer?
I have a class (Quadtree) and three inner class inside (Node, Inner and Leaf). Inner and Leaf inherit from Node.
I have a function in the private scope of Quadtree.
All these are located in fun.h .
Then, in fun.cpp, I am implementing the function (which is named foo <- what a prototype name!), which takes as argument a pointer to an Inner object. Inner seems unable to be resolved however!
fun.h Code: class Quadtree { private: class Node{ public: Node() { std::cout << "Node "; } }; class Inner : public Node { public: Inner() { std::cout << "Inner
I want to make a destructor counter...So it needs to be outside that specific instance of the class. And i want to keep it hidden. I don't want to be able to access it from outside the class...I Don't want main.cpp to have access to this variable
I get a problem with the vector as a private class member: When I did't initialize the vector in constructor(which means the size of the vector would be 0), I used a class function to add two elements to the vector and it worked (because I added a "printf" to output the size of the vector and the elements within that function). However, when I used another class function to visit that vector, no element was in and the size became 0.
Then I tried to add two elements to the vector during the construction, and it turned out that these two elements could be stored in the vector while other elements added through class functions could not.
I guess there may be some problems on the scope of the function. But I feel the class member should not be effected by the scope of the class function.
This question is more from a design point-of-view rather than coding it to be a fully functional.
So here it goes:
I have multiple files which each require their own object of same class type (ref. First Class). File contents are read from a file to a unordered_map<std::string, std::vector<std::string>> which is either private or protected member inside First Class. First Class does not need any public functions to add, remove or change the data during runtime, but changes are only being made by checking if the file size has changed during the day, if the size is not equal to the last check, map gets updated.
Now, I have a Second Class which is a data handler class. It has public member functions with arguments that needs to be get from First Class's unordered_map using const_iterator. Which way to go with design and implementation.
I know there's two methods to do this. Re-doing handler class is also not out of the question. These two methods I'm aware of are:
1. Declare these maps to local scope, build few global functions and here we go. (Probably the easiest way.)
2. Create public member functions to a First Class which either return a pointer or a reference to a protected/private member. (I'm under the impression that I really shouldn't be doing this because of a bad coding practice.)
Note that I don't need any code here, just some other point-of-views regarding the subject itself for learning better coding practices.
I've been writing my own implementation of quicksort in a .h file. I've gotten to the point where I think I'm done with the algorithm, so now I'm trying to make it so that if someone includes "quicksort.h", they will only have access to certain functions in the file. Kind of like public and private functions in a class, but without the "class" part of it. How do you do that?
So I'm trying to do a homework assignment, where I read a uml about a bank program, and just create it. Here is the UML. So while working on Bank, the top one, i've come up with this so far.
Code: #include <iostream> #include <string> using namespace std; class bank { string name; int routingNum;
[Code] ....
I'm assuming that's what the uml wants. However I can't seem to access that private class. Idk why. I declared it as an object in the main.
I'm trying to put file data into members of a class. Remember to type in the file name you want to open. Cool feature right? I just had Dbase.txt so I chose that.
Fixed stuff in the .txt. Now I need to figure out why it only does 1 set and then ends.
#include <cstdio> #include <cstdlib> #include <iostream> #include <fstream> using namespace std; class INFO {
[Code] .....
Dbase.txt: Bob Guy Programmer M 9999.99 40 ------------------ Little Guy Little Brother M 0.0 3 ------------------
Im trying to make a c++ program for a school project, and i need to store the information into binary files, but I'm having some problems trying to store a class with string members, for example:
class whatever{ protected: string name; public: (List of functions) }
But if I do that, my code just dont work when I write and read a binary file, but if I change the string to char array, for example:
class whatever{ protected: char name[20]; public: (List of functions) }
It works good, so I wanted to know if there's some way to store a class wiht strings in binary files, or what am I doing wrong?
