Help, please...

[Wilburness]

Ok I can't seem to get this to work and I am out of Ideas, can anyone please help me.

//Program Header 
//Program Name: Employee Class
//Programmer: Aaron Wilbur
//CIS247, Week 4 Lab
//Program Description: the program receives information about the employee(s) and then displays it to the user


#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <stdlib.h> 
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

	const double MIN_SALARY = 50000;
	const double MAX_SALARY = 250000;
	const int MAX_DEPENDENTS = 10;
	const int MIN_DEPENDENTS = 0;
	const char DEFAULT_GENDER = 'N';
	const int NUMBER_WEEKS = 52;

class Benefit
{
	string healthInsureance;
	double lifeInsurance;
	int vacation;

	public:
		Benefit()
		{
			healthInsureance = "not provided";
			lifeInsurance = 0.0;
			vacation = 14;
		}
		Benefit(string healthInsureance, double lifeInsurance, int vaca)
		{
			this-> healthInsureance = healthInsureance;
			this-> lifeInsurance = lifeInsurance;
			this-> vacation = vaca;
		}
		void displayBenefits()
		{
		cout<<"Benefit Information\n";
		cout<<"____________________________________________________________\n";
		cout<<"Health Insurance: \t\t" << healthInsureance << "\n";
		cout<<"LifeInsurance:\t\t" << lifeInsurance << "\n";
		cout<<"Vacation: \t" << vacation << "\n";
		}

		string getHeathInsurance()
		{
			return healthInsureance;
		}
		string setHeathInsurance(string health)
		{
			healthInsureance = health;
		}
		double getLifeInsurance()
		{
			return lifeInsurance;
		}
		double setLifeInsurance(double life)
		{
			lifeInsurance = life;
		}
		int getVacation()
		{
			return vacation;
		}
		int setVacation(int vaca)
		{
			vacation = vaca;
		}

};

class iEmployee
{
public:
	virtual void calculatePay(double)=0;  
};


class Employee : public iEmployee
{
	static int numEmployees;
   	string firstName;
	string lastName;
	char gender;
	int dependents;
	double annualSalary; 
	static int numEmployees;
	

    public:
	
	Employee()
	{
		firstName = "not given";
		lastName = "not given";
		gender = 'U';
		dependents = 0;
		annualSalary = 20000;
		this->numEmployees++;
	}
	Employee(string firstName, string lastName, char gender, int dependents, double salary, Benefit ben)
	{
		this->firstName = firstName;
		this->lastName = lastName;
		this->gender = gender;
		this->dependents = dependents;
		this->annualSalary = salary;
		this->numEmployees += 1;
	}
	static int getNumberEmployees()
	{
		return numEmployees;
	}
	string getFirstName()
	{
		return firstName;
	}
	void setFirstName(string name)
	{
		firstName = name;
	}
	string getLastName()
	{
		return lastName;
	}
	void setLastName(string name)
	{
		lastName = name;
	}
	char getGender()
	{
		return gender;
	}
	void setGender(char gen)
	{
		switch (gen)
		{
		case 'f':case 'F': case 'M':case 'm':
				gender = gen;
				break;
			default:
				gender = DEFAULT_GENDER;
		}
	}
	int getDependents()
	{
		return dependents;
	}
	void setDependents(int dep)
	{
		if (dep >= MIN_DEPENDENTS && dep <= MAX_DEPENDENTS)
		{
			dependents = dep;
		}
		else if (dep < MIN_DEPENDENTS)
		{
			dep = MIN_DEPENDENTS;
		}
		else
		{
			dependents = MAX_DEPENDENTS;
		}
	}
	double getAnnualSalary()
	{
		return annualSalary;
	}
	void setAnnualSalary(double salary)
	{
		if (salary >= MIN_SALARY && salary <= MAX_SALARY)
		{
			annualSalary = salary;
		}
		else if (salary < MIN_SALARY)
		{
			annualSalary = MIN_SALARY;
		}
		else
		{
			annualSalary = MAX_SALARY;
		}
	}
	double calculatePay()
	{
		return annualSalary/NUMBER_WEEKS;
	}
	void displayEmployee()
	{
		cout<<"Employee Information\n";
		cout<<"____________________________________________________________\n";
		cout<<"Name: \t\t" <<firstName << " " << lastName << "\n";
		cout<<"Gender:\t\t" << gender << "\n";
		cout<<"Dependents: \t" << dependents << "\n";
		cout<<"Annual Salary:\t" << setprecision(2)<<showpoint<<fixed<<annualSalary << "\n";
		cout<<"Weekly Salary:\t" << setprecision(2)<<showpoint<<fixed<<calculatePay();
		Benefit displayBenefit();
				
	}

	int Employee::numEmployees=0;

	static int getNumEmployees()
	{
		static int getNumEmployees;
		return getNumEmployees;
	}
	

void DisplayApplicationInformation()
{  cout<<"Welcome to your first Object Oriented Program--Employee Class"
       <<"CIS247C, Week 4 Lab"
       <<"Name: Prof.Nana Liu";       
}

void DisplayDivider(string message)
{cout<<"\n*************** " + message + " *********************\n";}

string GetInput( string message)
{ string mystring;
  cout<<"Please enter your "<<message;
  getline(cin, mystring);
  return mystring;
}

void TerminateApplication()
{	cout<<"\nThe end of the CIS247C Week 4 iLab.\n";
	system("pause");
}


	int main() 
	{
		Employee employee1;  
		char gender;
		string str;
		
		DisplayApplicationInformation();
		
		DisplayDivider("Employee 1");

		employee1.setFirstName(GetInput("First Name "));
		employee1.setLastName(GetInput("Last Name "));
		
		str = GetInput("Gender ");
		gender = str.at(0);
		employee1.setGender(gender);  
		
		employee1.setDependents(atoi( GetInput("Dependents ").c_str())); 
		employee1.setAnnualSalary(atof(GetInput("Annual Salary ").c_str()));  		
		employee1.displayEmployee();
		Employee::getNumEmployees();

		employee1.setFirstName(GetInput("Health Insurance "));
		employee1.setLastName(GetInput("LifeInsurance "));
		employee1.setLastName(GetInput("Vacation Days "));
		
		DisplayDivider("Employee 2");
		Employee employee2("Mary", "Noia", 'F', 5, 24000.0);
		employee2.displayEmployee();
		Employee::getNumEmployees();

		cout<<"\n--- Number of Employee Object Created ----";
		cout<<"\nNumber of employees: " <<Employee::getNumberEmployees();

        TerminateApplication();
		
	}

this is the error list:

	1	IntelliSense: a nonstatic member reference must be relative to a specific object	c:\users\theewilburness\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\cis247c_wk4_lab_wilbur\cis247c_wk4_lab_wilbur\sourcecisweek4.cpp	117	10	CIS247C_WK4_Lab_Wilbur

	2	IntelliSense: data member initializer is not allowed	c:\users\theewilburness\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\cis247c_wk4_lab_wilbur\cis247c_wk4_lab_wilbur\sourcecisweek4.cpp	205	28	CIS247C_WK4_Lab_Wilbur

	3	IntelliSense: object of abstract class type "Employee" is not allowed:	c:\users\theewilburness\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\cis247c_wk4_lab_wilbur\cis247c_wk4_lab_wilbur\sourcecisweek4.cpp	238	12	CIS247C_WK4_Lab_Wilbur

	4	IntelliSense: object of abstract class type "Employee" is not allowed:	c:\users\theewilburness\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\cis247c_wk4_lab_wilbur\cis247c_wk4_lab_wilbur\sourcecisweek4.cpp	263	12	CIS247C_WK4_Lab_Wilbur

	5	IntelliSense: no instance of constructor "Employee::Employee" matches the argument list	c:\users\theewilburness\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\cis247c_wk4_lab_wilbur\cis247c_wk4_lab_wilbur\sourcecisweek4.cpp	263	22	CIS247C_WK4_Lab_Wilbur

	6	IntelliSense: expected a '}'	c:\users\theewilburness\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\cis247c_wk4_lab_wilbur\cis247c_wk4_lab_wilbur\sourcecisweek4.cpp	272	2	CIS247C_WK4_Lab_Wilbur

[Moschops]

Numbers in those errors ( e.g 205 28 ) are line and column numbers.

If you wrap your code in code tags, so it gets line numbers, and make sure that the line numbers here match the line numbers as they are on your machine, we will be able to see the error without having to count the lines ourselves.

[Moschops]

When you declare that a class has a static variable, you have to create that static variable yourself, with the word static on it.

See the example here, with comment // Initialize static member of class Box
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/cplusplus/cpp_static_members.htm

object of abstract class type "Employee" is not allowed:

This means that you haven't fully defined the Employee type, so it's impossible to create one. See this function you said you were going to create: virtual void calculatePay(double)=0; ? You didn't create it.

	static int numEmployees;
   	string firstName;
        ...
	double annualSalary; 
	static int numEmployees;

You really should declare a variable only once.

[Wilburness]

Thank you all this information was really helpful I was really stuck and super new at this, I have it running now and studding every day to learn to be better ha ha. Not as easy as I had thought or hopped.