Returning an Object

taipeiben · February 17th, 2006, 07:24 PM

I'm trying to learn Visual c++ 2005, I'm running into a problem returning objects in a function. I wrote a class called Point that stores x, y coordinates

Code:

ref class MyPoint 
{ 
private: 
  int x; 
  int y; 
public: 
  int getX();
  int getY();
  void setX(int newVal);
  void setY(int newVal);
};

And I have another class that stores a group of points:

Code:

ref class GroupOfPoints 
{ 
private: 
  MyPoint a; 
  MyPoint b; 
public: 
  MyPoint getPointA() { return a; } 
  MyPoint getPointB() { return b; } 
};

But it's giving me a compiler error for my 'get' functions like, "cannot convert MyPoint to MyPoint" which I don't really understand since they're the same thing aren't they?

I've looked at the msdn help and all they provide is:

Code:

typedef struct   
{ 
    char name[20]; 
    int id; 
    long class; 
} STUDENT; 
 
/* Return type is STUDENT: */ 
 
STUDENT sortstu( STUDENT a, STUDENT b ) 
{ 
    return ( (a.id < b.id) ? a : b ); 
}

Which is all fine and good and stuff but I'm trying to use their managed classes, not structures... Then the help goes on to say that I should return a reference which I kinda understand how to do in the old C++ format using "*'s" and "&'s" for native heap stuff. But the new C++ 2005 uses "^" for the managed heap and I can't find any examples on how to return a reference using the new syntax.