I have been using eclipse for quite some time, but I have only recently used it for c++ programming. It was bunch of fun figuring out how to actual compile c++ on eclipse on my system, but I have figured that out with 100% success, but now I have stumbled upon another annoying issue. I have seen that If i create a class in a header file I can use the nifty tool under the source menu called "implement method" that will take my function declarations from my header file and place them in the source file with a body that is ready to code.
Well today I was messing around with some new code and I needed a template class for what I was working on, but behold when I tried to use this implement method function I find that eclipse tells me that there "no implement file found for one or more methods" and instead creates inline function in my header file (like i really need that!). Is this a bug in eclipse or is there some underlying c++ rule that cannot be avoided? I just dont seem to understand why having my class declration as class foo{};
would work just fine, but having template <typename T> class foo{};
causes this error. I know that this is the only issue becuase if I declare a normal class with just one public function it works, but if i take the same class and declare it as template class I find the error occurs again.
tldr:
eclipse "implement method" will place declared fucntion in header file into source file ready to code if class is declared as class foo{};
but fails if class is declared as template <typename T> class foo{};