Question

I have a Character .h/.cpp, an Enemy .h/.cpp and a Driver

If I pass the character into a function from Enemy, I have

ENEMY.CPP: void Enemy::enemyAttack(Character *character)
{ //whatever needs to be done }

which works fine.

But back in my Driver, if I do this:

Character *character = new Character();
Enemy::enemyAttack(character);

I get the following error message: “A nonstatic member reference must be relative to a specific object.” is character not a specific object?

Answer 1

No, the error is talking about an Enemy object. To call a non-static Enemy method you must have an Enemy object.

Enemy en;
en.enemyAttack(character);

Think about, when you write

Enemy::enemyAttack(character);

which enemy is it that’s attacking? There isn’t one.