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Turkeyplague
Turkeyplague

Reputation: 89

C++ Initialise base class

I'm having trouble getting inheritance working.

I have a base class Entity with a derived class Item. I want to instantiate an Item with a name and description that will be passed back to the base class Entity. It's telling me: "Constructor for ‘Item’ must explicitly initialise the base class ‘Entity’ which does not have a default constructor."

Here's how I'm trying to do it in the header:

Item(string name, string description): Entity(name, description){};

And the implementation:

Item::Item (string name, string description) {
}

Cheers

Upvotes: 0

Views: 44

Answers (1)

New Pagodi
New Pagodi

Reputation: 3554

You just need to reorder your code slightly. The : Entity(name, description) part that passes the parameters to the base class's constructor should be part of the implementation of the constructor, not part of the declaration.

That is to say, the header should contain the bit

Item(string name, string description);

And the implementation should contain:

Item::Item (string name, string description): Entity(name, description) {
}

Upvotes: 1

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