Error C3861: 'menu': identifier not found

Hi all again,

I'm having some trouble now with calling functions. Even tough I have a header file being called in the correspondent .cpp file it gives me the consequent error (in Visual C++ 2008 Expression Edition):

.\AirLine.cpp(113) : error C3861: 'menu': identifier not found

Here it goes the code (I edited the code that I thought it wasn't useful since it's a bit long)

AirLine.h

Code:

#pragma once

#include "Form1.h"
#include "Person.h"

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <map>

using namespace std;

class AirLine
{
	public:
		//int main(array<System::String ^>);
		void menu(void);
		void loginUser (void);
		void registerUser(void);
};

AirLine.cpp

Code:

// AirLine.cpp : main project file.

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "AirLine.h"

static Person person;

//[STAThreadAttribute]
void registerUser()
{
       (...)
		registerUser();
       (...)
}

void loginUser ()
{
	(...)
		menu(); // the error above goes here
	(...)
}

void menu()
{
	(...)
		switch(option)
		{
			case 0: exit(1);
			case 1: loginUser(); break;
			case 2: registerUser(); break;
		}
	}
}

int main(array<System::String ^> ^args)
{
	menu();
	
	return 0;
}

I created the header file since I need to call menu() before and after the declaration of that function, as you can see above, and I thought it would solve my problems. Seems it doesn't.

Any guesses? :\

Thanks in advance,
João

Originally Posted by blacknail

(I edited the code that I thought it wasn't useful since it's a bit long)

We kind of hate that... If we're not seeing the real code we can't find the bug. If your code is truly tremendous, post it as an attachment instead of in-line, but in any case please always submit the entire code.

So there's menu() and there's AirLine::menu(). The prototype for the second (in the class) won't help you find the first. (The same thing would be true for registerUser and loginUser; you're declaring the second, and defining the first.)

Solved my problem, I decided to separate the AirPlane class from the class with the main() function. I shouldn't have mixed up the main project file with functions of another class, but since I was not having problems I kept going...

Thanks again for all the support!

[[]]
João

As I see, loginUser tries to call menu that is... defined later. Oops.
The compiler doesn't know of the existence of the menu function yet.
So how do you solve that? Easy. You create a declaration of the function (all of the functions), stuff them into a header and include it in the .cpp file, as well as any other file that's going to use the functions inside that .cpp file.

Hi, i am currently facing the same problem...do you mind giving a few examples on how to declare the functions inside the header?

Code:

void menu(); // Declaration. Goes into header.
void menu() // Definition. Goes into .cpp file.
{
}

class MyClass // Class definition. Goes into header.
{
public:
    void menu();
};

void MyClass::menu() // Class implementation. Goes into source file (.cpp file).
{
}