Thread: VC++ problems with pointers

Hi everyone,

I'm writting a function like this :

Code:

void GLMesh::convertToDiffCoord(Mesh *m)

in this function i want to call another function in the Mesh class, it's the function shown below:

Code:

list<Vertex*>* get_vertices(void) const;

I want to use the object that is pointed by *m to call the function, so I wrote:

Code:

void GLMesh::convertToDiffCoord(Mesh *m)
{
       list<Vertex*>* v = *m.get_vertices;
}

I keep getting error message saying:

error C2228: left of '.get_vertices' must have class/struct/union
1> type is 'Mesh *'
1> did you intend to use '->' instead?

which I don't understand.

I'm a rookie in C++ programming, I would appreciate if any of you can give me some help.

m->get_verticies(), maybe.

or (*m).get_vertices, same thing.

*m.get_vertices() is parsed as *(m.get_vertices()). Since m is a pointer, the dot cannot apply to it. So you must either use (*m).get_vertices(), or (far preferable) m->get_vertices().

Thanks guys!