Protected Members

[joeGrammar]

Interesting Tidbit I discovered:

I have 2 files, one which has a class declaration and another which creates a class object, the object then tried to use a protected member and it cannot.

example:

header file:
#include <iostream.h>

class Protected
{
protected:

int printer(){ cout << &quot;hey!!&quot;; }

}

main.cpp

#include <iostream.h>
#include &quot;protect.h&quot;


int main()

{

Protected* p;

p->printer();

}

Why won't this work?

 

[Zyrenthian]

protected members are treated as private. The way calling protected members are done is through inheritance (or friends but that give full access to public/protected/private

this is an example of inheritance


class Protected
{
protected:

int printer(){ cout << &quot;hey!!&quot;; }

}

class usage: public Protected
{
public:
int print()(return printer();}
}


int main()

{

usage p;// if you have a pointer you must &quot;new&quot;

p->print();

}


matt

 

[joeGrammar]

yea, that's what I figgerd, thanks