Thread: Complicated but urgent!

Ok, I will try to explain things as best as I can. I have a 'base' class called CRTBase. This class is pretty simple, it contains just a member function Update which takes as parameter a pointer to the CWindowFrame class.

Code:

void Update (CWindowFrame *window);

There is a protected member called win, type of wnWindowStruct.
My code here is simple. the CWindowFrame class has an instance to a struct called wnWindowStruct.

so, here is my code for the Update method:

Code:

void Update(CWindowFrame *window)
{
   ZeroMemory(&win,sizeof(wnWindowStruct));
   win = window->GetWindowStruct();
   //GetWindowStruct() returns the instance of the struct used
  //in the CWindowFrame, which's contents will change on the fly.
 //So this struct needs to be updated in every frame.
}

Now, Lets say i have another class, which inherits from the CRTBase:

Code:

class CRTCamera : protected CRTBase
{
   ...functions here

};

What I need to do is have access to the protected member 'win' of the base class. Which I do have. The problem is that the contents of the wnWindowStruct win, are empty! I use the Update(&window) after creating and registrating the main window. For example, the width member of the 'win' variable must be 640. but it is 0.

Any ideas?
Thanks a lot

Of course I am using inheritance, it is obvious here.

My class definition for CRTBase is:
class CRTBase
{
public:
void Update(CWindowFrame *window);

protected:
wnWindowStruct win;

};

You suggest that I make the protected variable virtual?

>>Complicated but urgent!
Don't mark your threads as Urgent.

Sorry for the 'urgent' text in my topic.

This is what I am trying to avoid. You see, I am having about 3 classes that need to update their private win structure. That way, I should call 3 times the member function called Update of each class to update the win structure to the current one, the one in the CWindowFrame. So, I thought that it would be nice if I only updated the base class 'win' structure and all the other classes used this one. Isnt it a good idea? But I am stuck here.

Wouldn't it just work if you created a VIRTUAL Update(); function for your classes?

Code:

virtual void Update(CWindowFrame *window);

This should call the Base class UPDATE fxn and not an instance of UPDATE() in the current class.

No, this wont do. I'd better just let every class have an Update function. What I want is that every class, such as Camera for example, to have access to that 'win' structure in CRTBase. Update function will accept a CWindowFrame parameter and set the win = parameter->GetWindowStruct();

This should be done every frame. Then, the camera for example class can use the updated 'win' to retrieve information out of it. My problem is that win is no initialized correctly and it contains nothing in it. When I test the win values inside the Update function of the CRTBase class, it works ok. But when I test it from a class that inherits the CRTBase class, it doesnt. What might it be?

No, this wont do. I'd better just let every class have an Update function.

Every class already has an Update() fxn if it has inherited from CRT class, that's inheritance, you need to declare that fxn to be VIRTUAL in order to call the BASE class Update() fxn.

When you inherit you are just passing the structure, variables and functions but the variables are empty and the functions refer to the current class. You need to declare the function VIRTUAL in order for the Update() fxn in the BASE class to be called from the SUB class.

urgent? urgent for who? the only thing urgent for me in the next 10 hours is sleep.

Ok, thanks onestiffrod, I will try that.

moi, it is urgent for me, not for you

It worked! Thanks a lot.