Thread: to inherit or not to inherit ...

Moin,

I need an advice in the following case ...

I want to create a control from scratch, a Tab Control.

In the moment I've created a simple struct for the TabItems and a class for the TabWindow.

Code:

struct TabItem {
    LPCTSTR  itemText;
    unsigned itemID;
    RECT       itemRect;
};

class TabWindow {
    /* Con- / Destructors
       ...  */
  private:
    TabItem* tabItems; // pointer to an array of TabItems
    /* ... */
};

Does it make sense, or do I get advantages, if I let TabWindow derive from TabItem ?
Or is it unnessecery, because there are no advantages ...

Code:

class TabItem {
    LPCTSTR  itemText;
    unsigned itemID;
    RECT       itemRect;
};

class TabWindow : private TabItem {
    /* Con- / Destructors
       ...  */
  private:
    TabItem* tabItems; // pointer to an array of TabItems
    /* ... */
};

Thanks for reply.


Greetz
Greenhorn