C++ Visual Studio overloaded function error: no instance of overloaded function matches the specified type

CLARIFICATION:

This project is being done in Visual Studio, with an stdafx.h file used.

FText is an alias for string, as established in the file stdafx.h:

#include <string>

using FText = std::string;
using int32 = int;


stdafx.h is included in the View.cpp class.

ORIGINAL QUESTION:

So, I am trying to create several print methods which print a string based on one or two parameters: a number parameter that indicates which message to print, and an input to be used in the message. As of now, I have three instances of the method "print", as shown below:

///A method that prints a message
//give it a number to tell it what message to print.
void Display::print(int message)
{

switch (message)
{
case 0:
std::cout << "Welcome to Cows and Bulls, a simple word-guessing game. n";

break;
case 1:
//(I omitted most of the messages to save space)
break;
default:
std::cout << "Something has gone horribly wrong. n";
std::cout << "Goodbye. n";
throw std::exception();
}


}

//messages with one int parameter
void Display::print(int message, int param)
{

switch (message)
{
case 0:

break;
default:
std::cout << "Something has gone horribly wrong. n";
std::cout << "Goodbye. n";
throw std::exception();
}

}

//messages with one string parameter
void Display::print(int message, FText param)
{

switch (message)
{
case 0:

break;
default:
std::cout << "Something has gone horribly wrong. n";
std::cout << "Goodbye. n";
throw std::exception();
}

}


I haven't added any messages to the second and third overload yet, but I'll get to that.

The class declaration in the header file for the view part of the program looks like this:

#pragma once

//The method that prints thing to the screen



class Display
{

public:

void print(int message);

//print a message with a parameter other than the message being selected

void print(int message, int param);

void print(int message, FText param);

};


The first two instances of the print method work fine, but the third one (the one with a string/FText as a parameter) is giving me the following error:

"no instance of overloaded function "CowsAndBulls::Display::print" matches the specified type"


To add a little extra clarity, the code still compiles, and I have not used this function yet: I'm getting an error in the definition of this version of print.

I'm fairly certain I'm just missing something simple, but a quick search through stack overflow's questions has failed to bring me another problem with exactly the same circumstances as this (or perhaps I just failed to recognize another post as the same problem?)

either way, any assistance is appreciated.

FText

FText

FText

FText

std::string

FText

Runtime/Core/Public/Internationalization/Text.h

1 Answer
1

Ok, looks like I forgot to include stdafx.h in the View class header file. While stdafx.h (and by extension, FText) was included in the cpp file, the header file apparently didn't know what it was. This was throwing me off, because the error was displayed in the cpp file.

For future reference, does anyone know why that is?

stdafx.h

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