class conversion with c++

The Second

Hey ... I'm getting this compiler error: cannot convert from 'class cuboid *' to 'class cuboid'
No constructor could take the source type, or constructor overload resolution was ambiguous

Which I don't understand because I have everything declared as ints... see...

class cuboid{
private:
GLuint x_, y_, z_;
GLuint cube_no_;

public:

cuboid(GLuint x, GLuint y, GLuint z, GLuint cube_no);
void draw_cuboid();
};

and the constructor:

cuboid::cuboid(GLuint x, GLuint y, GLuint z, GLuint cube_no){
x_= x; y_= y; z_= z; cube_no_= cube_no;
}

and this is where I'm calling it:

cuboid inital = new cuboid(xloop, yloop, zloop, count);
inital.draw_cuboid();
count++;

xloop, yloop and zloop are all declared as GLuint

deadl0ck

Your problem is here:

cuboid inital = new cuboid(xloop, yloop, zloop, count);

new allocates memory and returns a pointer to it

You should have :

(a)
cuboid* inital = new cuboid(xloop, yloop, zloop, count);

or

(b)
cuboid inital(xloop, yloop, zloop, count);

The Second

hey I went for B ... and it worked.. .cheers

tendofan

Don't forget that you have to delete the object manually.

So somewhere you create a new cuboid object.

cuboid* inital = new cuboid(xloop, yloop, zloop, count);

you have to do

delete initial;
initial = NULL;

at some point.

If you are creating and destroying the object in just one function then you can do

cuboid initial(xloop, yloop, zloop, count);

and not bother with the delete at all.

Tendofan

The Second

cheers