interlocking class definitions?

[Stainless]

I want a class NPC which has a member variable wpn which is a pointer
to a Weapon class.

However the Weapon class has methods that require pointers to NPC
classes.

so obviously in Weapon.h I include NPC.h
and in NPC.h I include Weapon.h

both have proper #ifndef <blah> #define <blah> #endif structures


but the compiler can't handle it


Is this a valid c++ situation?

Or do I have to use void * and do something like dynamic_cast



--

 

[Gavin Deane]

I want a class NPC which has a member variable wpn which is a pointer
to a Weapon class.

However the Weapon class has methods that require pointers to NPC
classes.

so obviously in Weapon.h I include NPC.h
and in NPC.h I include Weapon.h

both have proper #ifndef <blah> #define <blah> #endif structures


but the compiler can't handle it


Is this a valid c++ situation?

Or do I have to use void * and do something like dynamic_cast

This is in the FAQ
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/misc-technical-issues.html#faq-39.11

Gavin Deane

 

[Josh Sebastian]

I want a class NPC which has a member variable wpn which is a pointer
to a Weapon class.

However the Weapon class has methods that require pointers to NPC
classes.

This is a FAQ.
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/misc-technical-issues.html#faq-39.11

 

[Stainless]

This is in the FAQ
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/misc-technical-issues.html#faq-3
9.11

Gavin Deane

God that was all I had to do.....

three hours wasted trying to figure out why VC was throwing error C2061

thanks for that


--