I have this class
class CamFeed { public: // constructor CamFeed(ofVideoGrabber &cam); ofVideoGrabber &cam; };
And this constructor:
CamFeed::CamFeed(ofVideoGrabber &cam) { this->cam = cam; }
I get this error on the constructor: Constructor for '' must explicitly initialize the reference member ''
What is a good way to get around this?
You need to use the constructor initializer list:
CamFeed::CamFeed(ofVideoGrabber& cam) : cam(cam) {}
This is because references must refer to something and therefore cannot be default constructed. Once you are in the constructor body, all your data members have been initialized. Your this->cam = cam;
line would really be an assignment, assigning the value referred to by cam
to whatever this->cam
refers to.