Declaring functors for comparison ??

Posted by Mr.Gando on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Mr.Gando
Published on 2009-11-19T18:33:15Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 18:23 UTC
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Hello, I have seen other people questions but found none that applied to what I'm trying to achieve here.

I'm trying to sort Entities via my EntityManager class using std::sort and a std::vector<Entity *>

/*Entity.h*/
class Entity
{
public:
 float x,y;
};

struct compareByX{
 bool operator()(const GameEntity &a, const GameEntity &b)
 {
  return (a.x < b.x);
 }
};   

/*Class EntityManager that uses  Entitiy*/

typedef std::vector<Entity *> ENTITY_VECTOR; //Entity reference vector

class EntityManager: public Entity
{
private:
 ENTITY_VECTOR managedEntities;

public:
 void sortEntitiesX();
};

void EntityManager::sortEntitiesX()
{

 /*perform sorting of the entitiesList by their X value*/
 compareByX comparer;

 std::sort(entityList.begin(), entityList.end(), comparer);
}

I'm getting a dozen of errors like

: error: no match for call to '(compareByX) (GameEntity* const&, GameEntity* const&)'
: note: candidates are: bool compareByX::operator()(const GameEntity&, const GameEntity&)

I'm not sure but ENTITY_VECTOR is std::vector<Entity *> , and I don't know if that could be the problem when using the compareByX functor ?

I'm pretty new to C++, so any kind of help is welcome.

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