Someone with C++ experience here?

[Tamina]

I bought an Arduino and now I am trying to get my head around C++ - and it is a painful headache.
I would like to make some classes and call a method on them, without the need to distinguish them, but I do not know why it fails.
Maybe someone can help me with this?

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#ifndef RUNNABLE_H
#define RUNNABLE_H
#include "Arduino.h"

class Runnable {
  public:
    virtual boolean loop() = 0;
};

#endif

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#ifndef MOTOR_H
#define MOTOR_H
#include "Runnable.h"

class Motor : Runnable {
  private:
  
  public: Motor();
};

#endif

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#include "Motor.h"

Motor::Motor () {
}

boolean Motor::loop() {
  Serial.println( "LOOP" );
  return true; 
}

I got this from a tutorial online but the compiler tells me that there is a problem that loop is "pure virtual"?

[Cycrow]

you are missing the function define in the class Motor

class Motor : Runnable {
private:

public: Motor();
boolean loop() override;
};

[pjknibbs]

Yeah, what he said. When you declare a function as virtual you're basically saying, "Not going to define this here, going to define it in inherited classes"--so you really need to define it in those inherited classes or the compiler won't be happy.

[CBJ]

When you declare a function as pure virtual you're basically saying, "Not going to define this here, going to define it in inherited classes"...

Small correction underlined. For the OP's benefit, that's the "= 0" bit in the declaration.

[Tamina]

Thanks That works, and it is moving!!
I thought it is implicit when extending Runnable,

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Motor : Runnable

Motor is inheriting all methods from Runnable.

It seems redundant to explicitly reintroduce them in the header-file of Motor again.

[CBJ]

It's not redundant as far as the compiler is concerned, but the reasons for that are not something it's worth getting into if you're just trying to get your head around C++.