accessing/declare protected class in class

[Hork83]

Hi,

I got a little problem over here and i like to have an advice, what i am doing wrong.
This is an example:

myMainClass.h

#include myClass.h
public class myMainClass
{
 public :
  //Constructor
  myMainClass();
 protected:
  myClass mc;
}

myMainClass.cc

#include myMainClass.h
//Constructor
myMainClass()
{
 mc::setOptions(...);
}

myClass.h

public class myClass
{
 public:
 //Constructor
 myClass();
 //method
 void setOptions(...);
}

I want to declare myClass in myMainClass as protected member, so i can use myClass in myMainClass freely (in all methods there).

When i try to compile my project i get that mc "is not a class or namespace". So where is my error?
Thanks for your time

[Ideswa]

You have to put a semicolon after class declarations!

class myClass
{
// do stuff
};

Edit: Do you want to inherit (protected)? Then you should do something like:

class myClass : protected myMainClass
{
// do stuff
};

[AverageSoftware]

mc::setOptions(...);

This should be:

mc.setOptions(...);

[hk_mp5kpdw]

#include "myMainClass.h"
//Constructor
myMainClass::myMainClass()
{
    ...
}

[CornedBee]

Don't confuse classes and objects. Classes are the blueprints, objects the individual instances.