creating arrays of class pointers within a class.

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  14 years ago

  by DanErickson

  Daniel Erickson

  , France

  Joined 14 years ago

  I'm writing a program in which I need to, within a class, create an array that contains pointers to, or instances of, another class. I also want to be able to use the .net array class, because I want to use a for loop with the upper bound being the length of an input array of the class. I've tried a bunch of ways of doing this, but I've run out of ideas. Right now my code is like this:

  public class Class1{}

  public

  class Class2

  {

  public

  :

           array<Class1*, 1>^Class1Array;

           Class1Array->Length;

  }

  or thats the gist of it. I get this error when I try to build it:

  error C3265: cannot declare a managed 'Class1Array' in an unmanaged 'Class2'

  may not declare a global or static variable, or a member of a native type that refers to objects in the gc heap

  I looked up the error code in the MSDN database and it said to declare the class as a ref class, which I tried, and I got these errors:

  error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '->'

  error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int

  error C2238: unexpected token(s) preceding ';'

   

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