Can anyone help?

[poeteskimo]

I am receiving the error message 'TheGame' : is not a class or namespace name.

I have included typedef Game TheGame; in the global scope of the game.h header.

 
void SDLGameObject::draw()
{
		TextureManager::Instance()->drawFrame(m_textureID, m_x, m_y, m_width, m_height, m_currentRow, m_currentFrame, TheGame::Instance()->getRenderer());
};

Above is the particular set of lines which is causing trouble. TheGame::Instance()->getRenderer()

Below is the contents of the GameObject.h header.

#ifndef __GameObject__
#define __GameObject__


#include <SDL.h>
#include <string>
#include "LoaderParams.h"
#include "TextureManager.h"
#include "game.h"

class GameObject
{
public:


	virtual void draw()= 0;
	virtual void update()=0;
	virtual void clean()=0;

protected:

	GameObject(const LoaderParams* pParams) {}
	virtual ~GameObject()
	{}
};

class SDLGameObject : public GameObject
{
public:

	SDLGameObject(const LoaderParams* pParams);

	virtual void draw();
	virtual void update();
	virtual void clean();

protected:



	int m_x;
	int m_y;

	int m_width;
	int m_height;

	int m_currentRow;
	int m_currentFrame;

	std::string m_textureID;
};

SDLGameObject::SDLGameObject(const LoaderParams* pParams) :
GameObject(pParams)
{
	m_x = pParams->getX();
	m_y = pParams->getY();
	m_width = pParams->getWidth();
	m_height = pParams->getHeight();
	m_textureID = pParams->getTextureID();

	m_currentRow = 1;
	m_currentFrame = 1;
};

void SDLGameObject::draw()
{
		TextureManager::Instance()->drawFrame(m_textureID, m_x, m_y, m_width, m_height, m_currentRow, m_currentFrame, TheGame::Instance()->getRenderer());
};

#endif /*
defined (__GameObject__) */ 

[Disch]

What is 'TheGame'? You don't have it defined anywhere. The compiler doesn't know what it is.

EDIT:

I missed your note about the typedef.

In that case, it must not be seeing the typedef. Is game.h including gameobject.h? If yes, you have a circular dependency, and it's causing declarations to muck up.

EDIT 2:

You shouldn't just include all other headers from each of your headers. You should only include headers which are necessary. That's how you avoid these kinds of problems.

See section 4 of this article illustrates how to do this properly, and explains why this is happening:

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/10627/#msg49679