Thread: Constructors of a class

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    Constructors of a class

    I'm trying to construct a class "Time" that included a separate custom library "Date". I understand that a single colon after the Time constructor passes the rest of the arguments ( bmonth, bday, byear) to the constructors of the Date data members/objects, which is a member of class "Time", but it hasn't been working on me.

    What is the proper syntax for this constructor of mixed classes?

    Time::Time( int hr, int min, int sec, int bmonth, int bday, int byear ) //Arguments

    { setTime( hr, min, sec ); }
    //Arguments for functions in Time class

    : birthDate( bmonth, bday, byear )
    //colon passes the rest of the arguments to functions in the "Date" functions, defined elsewhere, but declared in the Time class

    My actual code looks like this:
    Time::Time( int hr, int min, int sec, int bmonth, int bday, int byear ) { setTime( hr, min, sec ); } : birthDate( bmonth, bday, byear )


    I tried every reasonable order between the three. Help!

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    Try this

    Time::Time( int hr, int min, int sec, int bmonth, int bday, int byear)
    : birthDate( bmonth, bday, byear )
    {
    setTime( hr, min, sec );
    }
    The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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    I have tried that before and the compiler gave me three errors:

    1. birthDate is not a base or member of Time - illegal member initialization.
    2. birthDate is undeclared
    3. birthDate must have a class/struct/union type

    Its obvious that I'm having trouble with the compiler recognizing birthDate, which is a member of Date, but is defined in Time as const Date birthDate.

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    Talking

    I solved my own problem: nevermind

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