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d1ll1nger
d1ll1nger

Reputation: 1701

Enum issues, or is it my understanding?

I'm adding a enum type to the very few bits of C++ I've learnt so far, but having trouble to set it...Am i missing some fundamentals?

class Rectangle
{
public:
    Rectangle();
    ~Rectangle();
    enum rectangle_directions_t {R_LEFT = 0, R_DOWN = 1, R_RIGHT= 2, R_UP = 3, R_NONE = 4};
    void setRect(rectangle_directions_t rec_dir) {rectangle_direction = rec_dir;}


private:
    rectangle_directions_t rectangle_direction;

};

int main()
{
    Rectangle pRect;
    pRect.setRect(R_LEFT);

}

Can you not just set a variable of an enum type like any other type? Or am i missing something simple? The error I get is during the "set" in main which says R_LEFT is undefined. Which is odd because I don't usually declare an "int" first if I want to pass it to a method...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 66

Answers (1)

Joseph Mansfield
Joseph Mansfield

Reputation: 110658

The enumeration is defined within your class Rectangle. You need to qualify R_LEFT:

pRect.setRect(Rectangle::R_LEFT);

Upvotes: 8

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