[Dev-C++] C++ question

[Daniel G. <sp...@ho...>]

Hi all, I hope you can help.

I've inherited some code, and have a small prob. I have a base class, CBase, 
and a derived class, CDerived. What I've then done is to create a third 
class, CNew, and there is only one instance of this class (so the members 
are all static const, and the object is derived in the header file as static 
CNew NewObj. I've put
CNew& NewObj;
as a member in CBase.

Ok? Good now here is the hard bit. I currently access the members of CBase 
without the scope reolution operator or by dereferencing, that is I can 
write

int Var = MemberOfBase;

in the member function bodies of CDerived. I think this is because of the 
constructor: it looks like

CDerived(int x, int y)
  : CBase(int x, int y)
{
//...
}


My question is: How do I get the same effect using CNew? How can I do

int Var = MemberOfNew;

? I'm told that it can be achieved as the object of CNew is a reference, but 
I'm puzzled as how I dereference a reference so I can write the above 
instead of
int Var = NewObj.MemberOfCNew

Is that clear?

Daniel

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