Question

I’m trying to make a class that has a simple integer with in it. Of course, it uses header files and whatnot.

Here’s the code:

class.h

 class consolBuf
{
private:
    int buffersize1 = 10; //Data member initializer is not allowed
    int buffersize2 = 10;
    static char screenBuffer[10][10]; //screenBuffer
public:
    consolBuf(void);
    ~consolBuf(void);
    void draw();
    void write(int x, int y);
    char get(int x, int y);
};

For some reason some reson Visual Studio keeps complaining that I can’t declare a integer in the class.h. I’ve searched everywhere and I can’t find an answer. Is there something I’m missing?

Answer 1

Indeed you can’t initialize members like that. If you wanted to initialize those as default values for each instance, you would do that in the constructor:

consolBuf::consolBuf()
    : buffersize1(10)
    , buffersize2(10)
{

}