custom class vector

Hi,
I'm trying to use the stl::vector with a class I wrote and the compiler is telling me that it can't use the template.
The compiler output is:

Code:

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Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 Copyright
addbk.cpp:
Error E2102 addbk.cpp 7: Cannot use template vector<T, Allocator> without specifying specialization parameters
Error E2293 addbk.cpp 7: ) expected

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And the same for five or six lines. I've no idea where it needs the `)'.
Do I have to do something to my class to make it work with it? Or do I have to write the special template for my class?
Thanks.

vector is a container template, which means that you must at least
specify the type you want it to hold
e.g

Code:

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class Foo {

std::vector<int> vec;
....
};

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Wledge, I think you missunderstood me. What I'm trying to do is something like:

vector<myclass_t> vec;

and that's where I have the problem.

Post the actual code.

this andthis might be helpful

Thanks for those links, blackrat, it turns out I don't have a copy constructor and I think my copy assignment operator isn't written correctly.
Right now I'm not where my code is so I'll have to wait a couple of days 'till I'm back and I can test it.

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Originally posted by -=SoKrA=-
Thanks for those links, blackrat, it turns out I don't have a copy constructor and I think my copy assignment operator isn't written correctly.
Right now I'm not where my code is so I'll have to wait a couple of days 'till I'm back and I can test it.

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Well, EVERY class always has a copy constructor and an assignment operator. If you don't specify them, but use them, the compiler must auto-generate them. If shallow copies of the data are OK, then you don't need to make either. Else, you need to make both (and almost certainly a destructor too).

Yeah, you're right, Cat, I just meant that I hadn't written one but compiler-made one isn't good enough for my class.
The problem was that when I was passing the vector by reference to my functions, All I wrote was

Code:

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int function(vector& entries)

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but it turns out that you have to write it

Code:

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int function(vector<myclass> entries)

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I though that vector& was enough and that's why it was giving me all those errors.
One more fact about the stl I guess...

You can still pass by reference:

void f(const vector<type>&)
or...
void f(vector<type>&)

for example.

>>You can still pass by reference

Oops. Missed the `&'. I meant to write

int function(vector<myclass>& entries)

I actually have to pass by reference because the functions change the contents. I was doing two things at a time and missed it.