C++ Declaring A Class

[squeech]

In your initial post, you declared State as a variable of type bool. This means that you can only give it two values: true and false.

Since in your comments, you mentioned that the open state is represented by true, and closed by false, use that in the definition:

void BarrierType::BarrierOpen(void)
{
     State = true;
}

void BarrierType::BarrierClosed(void)
{
     State = false;
}

Two notes on these functions:
1) These two functions are members of the class, so they need to be named as associated with the class by the scope resolution operator ( :: ) like above: BarrierType::BarrierOpen()

2) Do not put semicolons after the function names. A semicolon is the period after a C++ sentence, and if it's there the compiler will not associate that line with the below class definition.


Also, FYI in case you care: The fancy names for these functions are "Accessors" because they give main and others access to private data

[Morphios]

Thanks squeech

Quote:

Also, FYI in case you care: The fancy names for these functions are "Accessors" because they give main and others access to private data

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