This is for a project I am doing for my college class and I could not find an answer for this that worked for me anywhere. Its very likely I did not understand the answers thou
You can do this in C++11 like so
class Menu { private: std::vector mi = std::vector(20); };
or if you are stuck using C++03 you will need to initialize it in the constructors initializer list
class Menu { public: Menu() : mi(20) {} private: std::vector mi; };