[Dev-C++] accessing derived class methods

[Dane E. <dg...@wo...>]

Neeraj,

Thanks for the input. I was afraid of that. I suppose this holds true  
always. I was hoping that a nested class with some friend  
declarations might provide a solution but
I accept defeat.

Thanks for clearing things up.

Dane

Begin forwarded message:

> Dane,
>
>    Ideally what you are doing should work the only care which must be
> taken is that the base class pointers must point to correct derived
> class objects and second is that you can't access any function in
> derived class which is not defined as virtual in base class.
> I mean if getSpecificData() is not defined as virtual in base you can
> not a derived version of call it using base class pointer.
>
> Regards
> Neeraj
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:09 AM
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> Subject: [Dev-C++] accessing derived class methods
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a simple base class and a few derived classes from it. My goal
> is to build an array of pointers where I can assign derived class
> objects into, then access the different derived class attributes
> as needed.
>
> So I have an employee class. I derive a laborer, scientist, and
> manager class from it. I build some basic virtual functions in the
> employee class, and each derived class
> has a couple of specific attributes that I want to call, like
> getSpecificData().
>
> I made an array of base class pointers then tried accessing the
> derived class methods, but it doesnt work. I made an array of void*
> pointers and tried to access derived class methods and that doesnt  
> work.
>
> I realize that I could build a pure virtual function in the base
> class that would only be used to access derived class atrributes, but
> that is silly. Please can someone point* me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dane
> da...@de...
>
>
>
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Dane
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