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POError: expected initializer before '.' token
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copied!<p>I am fairly new to using classes and the Object Oriented side of C++ and get the error in the title.</p> <p>I am writing a game of Tetris using SDL.</p> <p>I have a class definition in shapes.h</p> <pre><code>class shape { public: SDL_Surface *colour; int rotation1[4][4]; int rotation2[4][4]; int rotation3[4][4]; int rotation4[4][4]; bool load(); void move(); shape(); }; </code></pre> <p>and in main.h i have included shapes.h and defined instances of the class with</p> <pre><code>//Create shapes shape O, T, S, L, R, Z, I; </code></pre> <p>I also have seperate files for each shape such as I.cpp as each shape will have different code for loading the image for its colour of block onto the SDL_Surface colour and for the various arrays of different rotations of the block, so i seperated this into one file for each block.</p> <p>In I.cpp I have included main.h and tried to set up the load function for I as follows:</p> <pre><code>bool I.load() { //if loading the cyan square texture fails if ((I.colour = surface::onLoad("../Textures/cyanSquare.png")) == NULL) { //print error cout << "Unable to load cyanSquare.png"; //return fail return false; } I.rotation1 = {{7,7,7,7}, {0,0,0,0}, {0,0,0,0}, {0,0,0,0}}; I.rotation2 = {{0,0,7,0}, {0,0,7,0}, {0,0,7,0}, {0,0,7,0}}; I.rotation3 = {{7,7,7,7}, {0,0,0,0}, {0,0,0,0}, {0,0,0,0}}; I.rotation4 = {{0,0,7,0}, {0,0,7,0}, {0,0,7,0}, {0,0,7,0}}; return true; } </code></pre> <p>When I try to compile this (using GCC) it reports an error on line 3 of I.cpp of:</p> <pre><code>error: expected initializer before '.' token </code></pre> <p>I have absolutely no idea what this means, and could not find anything of use searching google for this error code, so any help would be appreciated.</p>

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