PocketMatrix

In VC 6 (and thus EVC 3 and 4), you can't declare static const member variables. The usual work around is to use enums:

class MyClass
{
enum
{
MY_CONSTANT = 100;
};

};

But then you lose type safety.

If it's uneeded in the header, then just declare it in the .cpp as a "local" static variable.

Ah, okay. Well at least I know I wasn't going crazy. Thanks for the tip, enum seems like a slightly better alternative than #define (must.. not.. use.. globals).

Thierry are you sure?

I think the following will work:

class CGameWindow
{
static const DWORD DEFAULT_HEIGHT;
};

In cpp file:
const DWORD CGameWindow::DEFAULT_HEIGHT=100;

I don't think it does, but if it works then it not a constant anymore. It's a real variable.

I am sure though that you can't declare and initialize a static const member variable in the header file (before .NET) so that it get used as a constant.