[solved] Stuck on beginner lesson 20

[Caleb7]

I can't seem to find where my errors are, hopefully someone can enlighten me.

Sprite dude; is declared in Game.h and the Sprite struct is in D3DGraphics.h
D3DGraphics.h is included in Game.h and I'm a bit stumped.

Started with a fresh framework download and followed the video again. I got the exact same outcome. I'm sure I am making a mistake somewhere but I can't seem to figure it out.

Cleaned the source folder and uploaded.

1>------ Build started: Project: Chili DirectX Framework, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1> D3DGraphics.cpp
d3dgraphics.cpp(30): error C2065: 'dude' : undeclared identifier
d3dgraphics.cpp(30): error C2228: left of '.height' must have class/struct/union
1> type is ''unknown-type''
d3dgraphics.cpp(31): error C2065: 'dude' : undeclared identifier
d3dgraphics.cpp(31): error C2228: left of '.width' must have class/struct/union
1> type is ''unknown-type''
d3dgraphics.cpp(32): error C2065: 'dude' : undeclared identifier
d3dgraphics.cpp(32): error C2228: left of '.key' must have class/struct/union
1> type is ''unknown-type''
d3dgraphics.cpp(33): error C2065: 'dude' : undeclared identifier
d3dgraphics.cpp(33): error C2228: left of '.surface' must have class/struct/union
1> type is ''unknown-type''
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

[natox1986]

What seems to be the problem is that you forgot to create your object.
So, you made a struct called Sprite, but then you start talking about the dude. object while you did not even declare the object.

So if you add 'Sprite dude;' to D3DGraphics.cpp (above the function that calls for the dude. object) you should be fine...

** Edit: I'm just a newbie, so correct me if I'm wrong, but that actually drawed the character on my screen for me and it compiled without actual errors **

[Caleb7]

Turns out I was just using the wrong sprite name. In the video the LoadSprite function changes dude to sprite (just for the function) and I missed that. Though if I hadn't read your suggestion, I wouldn't have tried it, got a new error, and realized what I did. So with that, thanks Natox!

[Musi]

Edit: Ah you found it, never mind.

[Caleb7]

I JUST figured it out. That was exactly what was wrong!

[natox1986]

Turns out I was just using the wrong sprite name. In the video the LoadSprite function changes dude to sprite (just for the function) and I missed that. Though if I hadn't read your suggestion, I wouldn't have tried it, got a new error, and realized what I did. So with that, thanks Natox!

Then I don't get it mate... could you explain?

Because according to my findings you make a function called 'LoadSprite' that uses the 'dude.*' object in 'D3DGraphics.cpp', but it does not recognize the 'dude.*' object because it is not initialized in any corresponding header file. But apparently I'm wrong on that one...
So what happened?

[Caleb7]

Turns out I was just using the wrong sprite name. In the video the LoadSprite function changes dude to sprite (just for the function) and I missed that. Though if I hadn't read your suggestion, I wouldn't have tried it, got a new error, and realized what I did. So with that, thanks Natox!

Then I don't get it mate... could you explain?

Because according to my findings you make a function called 'LoadSprite' that uses the 'dude.*' object in 'D3DGraphics.cpp', but it does not recognize the 'dude.*' object because it is not initialized in any corresponding header file. But apparently I'm wrong on that one...
So what happened?

The LoadSprite function takes a sprite called "sprite" but I wrote "dude"