Path: utzoo!utgpu!utorvm!ryerson!acps2924
Organization: Ryerson - Academic Computing Services
Date: Saturday, 11 May 1991 19:57:32 EST
From: <ACPS2924@Ryerson.Ca>
Message-ID: <91131.195732ACPS2924@Ryerson.Ca>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: BC++ and String class??

I'm having a slight problem with BC++.  Following is a short code sample
from my header file.  I somehow keep getting the same error with String.
What am I doing wrong ??

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------

#ifndef __DBFIELD_H
#define __DBFIELD_H

#ifndef __STDLIB_H
#include <stdlib.h>
#endif

#ifndef __CLSDEFS_H
#include <clsdefs.h>
#endif

#ifndef __CLSTYPES_H
#include <clstypes.h>
#endif

#ifndef __SORTABLE_H
#include <sortable.h>
#endif

#ifndef __STRNG_H
#include <strng.h>
#endif

class dbField
{
public:

		dbField(String name)
		{
			fieldName = name;
		};

		virtual char* toString(void)
		{
			cerr << "\nSorry but no toString exists for this dbField\n";
			exit(1);
			return (char*) NULL;
		};

private:

		String fieldName;

};

#endif

/---------------------------------------------------------------------------

ERROR: Cannot find 'String::String()' to initialize field 'fieldname' ....

But in the example directry.cpp it somehow gets away with it. Why ???????

Peter
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