Uboxcomponent is undefined

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so i’m following a tutorial for a simple pickup function ,but UBoxComponent is undefined , heres the code (pickup.h):
// Fill out your copyright notice in the Description page of Project Settings.

#pragma once

#include “CoreMinimal.h”
#include “GameFramework/Actor.h”
#include “Pickup.generated.h”

UCLASS()
class COOKBOOK_API APickup : public AActor
{
GENERATED_BODY()

public:
// Sets default values for this actor’s properties
APickup();
UBoxComponent* PickupBox;
UStaticMeshComponent* PickupMesh ;

protected:
// Called when the game starts or when spawned
virtual void BeginPlay() override;

public:
// Called every frame
virtual void Tick(float DeltaTime) override;
};

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Adding:

#include “Components/BoxComponent.h”

…above the include for the Pickup.generated.h will help.

I’m likely doing the same tutorial, and get other errors now in UE4.19. It says it cannot be used as a type. VS2017 was trying to assign it to DecalActor.h, which at least saw it as a type. Time for a different tutorial, as this seems like a moving target if you aren’t using the version they were using.

3

Adding that line and compiling in UE, not VS, seems to work as expected.

Also, turning of Intellisense errors at least makes editing code nicer with VS. Go to Tools->Options->Text Editor->C/C+±>Advanced->Intellisense and then set “Disable Error Reporting” to true.