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    copied!<pre><code>include/TestBullet.h:12: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conver sion before '(' token </code></pre> <p>I hate C++ error messages... lol ^^</p> <p>Basically, I'm following what was written in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/582331/c-is-there-a-way-to-instantiate-objects-from-a-string-holding-their-class-name/582456#582456">this post</a> to try to create a factory class for bullets so they can be instantiated from a string, which will be parsed from an xml file, because I don't want to have a function with a switch for all of the classes because that looks ugly.</p> <p>Here is my TestBullet.h:</p> <pre><code>#pragma once #include "Bullet.h" #include "BulletFactory.h" class TestBullet : public Bullet { public: void init(BulletData&amp; bulletData); void update(); }; REGISTER_BULLET(TestBullet); &lt;-- line 12 </code></pre> <p>And my BulletFactory.h:</p> <pre><code>#pragma once #include &lt;string&gt; #include &lt;map&gt; #include "Bullet.h" #define REGISTER_BULLET(NAME) BulletFactory::reg&lt;NAME&gt;(#NAME) #define REGISTER_BULLET_ALT(NAME, CLASS) BulletFactory::reg&lt;CLASS&gt;(NAME) template&lt;typename T&gt; Bullet * create() { return new T; } struct BulletFactory { typedef std::map&lt;std::string, Bullet*(*)()&gt; bulletMapType; static bulletMapType map; static Bullet * createInstance(char* s) { std::string str(s); bulletMapType::iterator it = map.find(str); if(it == map.end()) return 0; return it-&gt;second(); } template&lt;typename T&gt; static void reg(std::string&amp; s) { map.insert(std::make_pair(s, &amp;create&lt;T&gt;)); } }; </code></pre> <p>Thanks in advance. </p> <p>And unrelated to the error, but is there a way to let Bullet include BulletFactory without creating tons of errors (because of circular inclusion)? This way I would be able to remove <code>#include "BulletFactory.h"</code> from the top of all of the bullet subclasses.</p>
 

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