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Old May 6th, 2006, 04:58 PM
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Help with classes and constructors

I am having trouble understanding classes and using them. The following is what I have so far and what I need to do with it is to have the user input a,b,c,d and for it to do the appropriate calculation. As you can see, i put //???? where i have problems.

is the first constructor right? or should there be variables after the doubles?
I am also having trouble printing the total sales.

Code:
class Salesperson 
{
   public:
Salesperson();						
~Salesperson( );						

Salesperson(double, double , double , double);  //????????

void getsales( );						

void setsales( int, double );	// set 1 of 4 quarterly sales. function will be called every time a sales figure is entered.  will also finds total annual sales.
 
void printsales( );           //called from main()
private:
     double sales [4];  // quarterly sales figures
};

//----------Implementation section

Salesperson :: Salesperson ()
{
   for ( int i = 0; i < 4; i++ )
      sales[ i ] = 0.0;

}

Salesperson:: Salesperson (double q1, double q2, double q3, double q4);  //??????
{
	a=q1;
	b=q2;
	c=q3;
	d=q4;
//???????????????????????
}

void Salesperson :: getsales ()
{
   double salesFigure; 

   for ( int i = 1; i <= 4; i++ ) 
   {
      cout << "Enter sales for quarter " << i << ": ";
      cin >> salesFigure;
      setsales( i, salesFigure );

   }
}

void Salesperson :: setsales (int quarternum, double total)
{ 	
if ( quarternum >= 1 && quarternum <= 4 && total > 0 )
      sales[ quarternum - 1 ] = total ; // adjust for subscripts 0-11

else 
      cout << "Invalid quarter or sales figure" << endl;   


   for ( int i = 0; i < 4; i++ )  // summarize sales results
      total += sales[ i ];
}

void printsales( )
{
cout << "Yearly sales are << total;    //??????
}

Salesperson:: ~Salesperson( )
{
	cout << "destructor took place";
}	
	
int main ( )
{
   Salesperson s, z(a, b, c, d);
   s.getsales( );
   s.printsales( );
   z.printsales( );
   return 0;
}

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Old May 6th, 2006, 09:12 PM
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I see a couple of problems.
1. your class's private variable to hold the quarterly sales is an array of four doubles, but in your constructor you try to assign the parameters to four non-existent variables. You want something like sales[0] = q1; etc. (the prototype of the constructor is fine)
2. In your setsales() function, at the end you have a pointless for loop to total the sales. I say pointless because you don't store the total anywhere; you just put it into a function-local variable that goes away when the function ends (btw, you also need to zero total before the loop; it still holds the sales for whatever quarter, so that quarter would be counted twice). From that, and your printsales() function that uses a nonexistent variable total, it seems like you need to have a private total variable in the class.

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