C / C++ / MFC

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

"There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb

Peter Charlesworth wrote:

and a NULL value is
an unknown eye color, or whatever you like.

person mother;
mother.name = "Mom";
mother.eye_colour = 1;
mother.height = 1.34;

struct person {
    string name;
    typedef enum {
        BROWN = 1,
        BLUE  = 2,
        GREEN = 3
    } eyeColors_t;
    eyeColors_t eye_colour;
    float height;
 
    friend istream& operator >> (const istream&, const person&);
};
 
istream& operator >> (istream& is, const person& p) {
    is >> name >> eye_colour >> height;
    return is;
}

struct person
{
    string name;
    int eye_colour;
    float height;
    person(const string& n = "" , int e = -1 , float h = 0.0F);
};
person::person(const string& n, int e, float h)
: name(n), eye_color(e), height(h)
{}

person* spouse;
string newpersonname;
cin.get(newpersonname, 15);
cin.ignore(16,'\n');
spouse = new person(newpersonname);

pc_dev wrote:

An alternate option is to create new brush when it is needed

pc_dev wrote:

in above case the best option is to create on eand change its attributes at run tim