Thread: Static HBITMAP

ok... so this is what I did:

Code:

class Shot
{
   public:
      void move();
      bool collide();

   protected:
      POINT pos;
      static HBITMAP image;
};
HBITMAP Shot::image;

But it tells me I just defined image multiple times.

So I looked at "Jamsa's C/C++/C# Programmer's bible", and it gave an example:

Code:

class Shot
{
      static HBITMAP image;
   public:
      void move();
      bool collide();

   protected:
      POINT pos;
};
HBITMAP Shot::image;

This worked, but then I tried to make a Bullet class that inherits from Shot:

Code:

class Bullet : public Shot
{
(...)
};

then in Bullet's constructor, when I tried accessing image, it said I couldn't access image because it was a private member of Shot. What am I doing wrong?

p.s. dunno why, but just a sec ago I tried putting the declaration in the protected section again, and then in Bullet's header, "HBITMAP Bullet::image;" and it worked. Why is this???

Thanks, but there's 3 main reasons why I made it private:

a) I'm used to Java's static variables, which are a lot different.

b) the book I was reading said "class Bullet: public Shot" makes all of Shot's variables public in Bullet. I didn't think so but who knows?... c++ is strange.

c) When I declared image as protected, it said that I defined it twice; it didn't do that when I declared it as private.

Does this (c) have something to do with inherited classes being able to access protected variables but not private ones?

Yes.

Elaborate please?