[SOLVED] sf::Shape pointers

[danthebeliever]

Hi.

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sf::Shape * genSquare =  new sf::Shape::Rectangle(0,0,100,100,sf::Color::Red);

This will not compile for me. I get an "expected type-specifier" error.

Any thoughts?

I need it to be a pointer else it will go out of scope for the other object I am using it for and thus cause a bad access.

EDIT: sf::Shape::Rectangle is not a constructor, it's a static function, so I
need to type it.

The correct code is this:

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sf::Shape * genSquare =  new sf::Shape(sf::Shape::Rectangle(0,0,100,100,sf::Color::Red));

[Nexus]

sf::Shape::Rectangle is not a type, it is a static member function. Therefore you must create a sf::Shape dynamically and initialize it with the result of the Rectangle() function.

[Laurent]

sf::Shape::Rectangle is a static function, not a type name.

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sf::Shape * genSquare = new sf::Shape(sf::Shape::Rectangle(0,0,100,100,sf::Color::Red));

[danthebeliever]

Great! That works! Thank you very much

[Laurent]

By the way...

I need it to be a pointer else it will go out of scope for the other object I am using it for and thus cause a bad access

You can simply store a copy of it, you probably don't need a pointer to a dynamically allocated instance.

[danthebeliever]

Oh gotcha thanks

Well I'm using cpGUI and it accepts a pointer for the cpShapeButton. If I pass the address of a statically allocated object it goes out of scope, and since it won't accept an object, I think I do have to allocate it.