Re: Class inheritance 101
Anders Eriksson wrote:
Hello,
I have a class, yClass, that I need to add a couple of member variables to.
So I thought I knew how to do this but it turns out I don't ;-)
class yClass
{
public:
/// Construct an yClass instance
yClass();
/// Construct an yClass instance initializing from a given object
yClass(yClass& yObj);
/// Default destructor
virtual ~yClass();
...
};
class mClass : public yClass
{
???
private:
int m_x;
int m_y;
zClass *m_pzObj;
}
How do I write the constructor and deconstructor for mClass so it also
calls yClass constructor and deconstructor.
It's simple:
class mClass : public yClass
{
mClass() {}
mClass(const mClass& other) : yClass(other)
{
m_x = other.m_x;
m_y = other.m_y;
m_pzObj = ...;
}
~mClass() { /* release m_pzObj */ }
private:
int m_x;
int m_y;
zClass *m_pzObj;
};
You don't need to write anything for default constructor
`mClass::mClass()'. Base class constructor will be called
automatically. The same is true for destructor.
Alex
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