Thread: calling structures within structures

Hi again.

I've got this program that's supposed to generate Christmas cards. it does this using hard coded information and information given by the user.

it uses the following stucture at its base;

Code:

struct Basecard
{
	struct persons //structure that holds the names
	{
	    char sender[name]; //senders name
        char reciptfore[name]; //recipients forename
        char reciptsur[name]; //recipients surname
	};
	struct messages //structure tha
	{
	    char standard[message];
	    char personal[message];
	};
	struct Images //structure that contains the images of the built card
		{
			Image main_image;
			Image image1;
			Image image2;
			Image image3;
			Image image4;

the problems occur when I'm trying to use the structures. here's an example

Code:

	cout << "please enter the name of the sender: ";
	cin >> card.persons.sender; endl;

gets the compiler error invalid use of struct Basecard:: persons

I'm guess i'm calling it wrong. can anyone tell me the proper way?

thanks

ES

persons is a type, not a variable. You need a variable of that type to use, in the same way that you are not doing Basecard.persons.char in your code.

Ok, i've changed the code to what I think you wanted me too, the structure now looks like this.

Code:

 struct Basecard
{
	struct _persons //structure that holds the names
	{
	    char sender[name]; //senders name
        char reciptfore[name]; //recipients forename
        char reciptsur[name]; //recipients surname
	};_persons persons;
	struct _messages //structure tha
	{
	    char standard[message];
	    char personal[message];
	};_messages messages;
	struct _Images //structure that contains the images of the built card
		{
			Image main_image;
			Image image1;
			Image image2;
			Image image3;
			Image image4;
		};_Images Images;
};

and i'm no longer getting the invalid use error, but now i'm getting some different ones :S

Code:

cout << "please enter the name of the sender: ";
	cin >> card.persons.sender; endl;

gives the error statement cannot resolve address of overloaded function. to the best of my knowleadge, I am not overloading this function as it is not used anywhere othre than here.

Code:

message_ = "Merry Christmas";

gives the error incompatible types in assignment of 'const char [16]' to 'char[51]'. I assumed it had something to do with the variable type, but whatever I change it too only seems to make it angrier.

endl is not a function. Don't try to use it as one. There's no reason "endl" and "cin" should ever appear on the same line anyway.

You can't assign to char arrays, just like you can't assign to integer arrays or float arrays. If you insist on using old C-style strings, then you'll have to use strcpy just like you would in C.