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General / Re: Super basic C++ question

« on: March 10, 2013, 09:14:32 pm »

Thanks guys.  I read a good chunk of 'Thinking in C++' quite a while back, but I guess I will need to dig into it again, because I don't recall objects being initialized like that....I thought maybe I was seeing as shorthand version or something.

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General / Super basic C++ question

« on: March 10, 2013, 08:54:05 pm »

Hello, I am new to C++ and needless to say, SFML.  I have a really basic question regarding the object initialization.  While I have no experience with C++, I have been developing with PHP for 7+ years so I do have a understanding of programming fundamentals. 

As an example:
    sf::VideoMode videoMode(320,240);
    sf::Window window(videoMode,"Basic Display Window");

Are these statements initializing the variables and then immediately running the constructor method with the given parameters?  It just looks a little foreign to me and I would expect something more similar to.

sf::VideoMode viewMode = new sf::VideoMode(320,240);
sf::Window window = new sf:Window(videoMode,"Basic Display Window");

Any articles that you might be able to link to as well would be greatly appreciated.