Static attribute

[JoderCoder]

Hello all,

say i have a static attribute -say static int counter- in a class which will be common for all the objects. But how can i give the initial value -say zero- to it?

thanks much!

[sicarie]

If you always want this to be instantiated at 0 for every occurrence of this object, then you should do it in the class definition.

Otherwise, have you tried setting it when you create the object?

[JoderCoder]

it wouldnt let me do this in the class definition:

static int counter = 0;

every new object should be able to manipulate counter, but before manipulating it should know the previous value -i.e. it is common for all objects-

[Banfa]

For a class defined in a header file

[code=cpp]
class MyClass
{
private:
static int counter;

public:
MyClass();
~MyClass();

// More methods and data members
}
[/code]

in a ccp file somewhere (may be the class implementation file) have

[code=cpp]
int MyClass::counte r = 0;
[/code]