Trying to re-size the shape matrix dynamically. This is part of a drawing program where _capacity is the number of shapes drawn on a frame. Get the error in new Shape about _capacity saying expression needs to have a constant value. void ShapeStore::Grow(int minimumCapacity) { _capacity = max (minimumCapacity, 2 * _capacity); if (_capacity) { Shape ***newData = new Shape[_frames][_capacity]; //figure out this int i; for (int k = 0; k < _frames; k++) for (i=0;i<_count;i++) newData[k][i] = _data[k][i]; delete [] _data; _data = newData; } //*/ }