Thread: class problem

say i have this class with two pointers to objects of other classes as it's members

Code:

class cLoginManager
{
public:
	cLoginManager();
	~cLoginManager();
	
	cInformationWindow* InformationWindow;
	cLoginWindow* LoginWindow;

};

then i have

Code:

class cInformationWindow
{
public:
	cInformationWindow();
	~cInformationWindow();

        bool getVisible(){return m_Visible;};
        bool m_Visible;

};

and

Code:

class cLoginWindow
{
public:
	cLoginWindow();
	~cLoginWindow();


        void ControlClick(int id)
        {
                //here i want to be able to access the cInformationWindow's getVisible()
        };


};

I am not sure how i can access the the cInformationWindow's getVisible() function from inside cLoginWindow::ControlClick(int id)

I could do it by delcaring a pointer to the cWindowManager class and then extern the pointer at the top of the file holding the declaractions of the cLoginWindow class and then in the cLoginWindow::ControlClick(int id) access the getVisible() using the pointer.

Though i dont really want to do that as that requires the class to know of an object inorder to be useable.

So is there a way for the cLoginWindow, which is a member of cWindowManager to access the function of another member of cWindowManager?

I'm kind of confused. Do you want the value from a specific instance of cInformationWindow? Or do you want to inherit the functionality of cInformationWindow within cLoginWindow? If the latter change

class cLoginWindow

to

class cLoginWindow : public cInformationWindow

and within ControlClick just test the bool or use the function as (loosely) the two classes are now merged together.

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson20.html

If it's the former use the . operator to execute the getVisible method from an instance of the first class.

>> If it's the former use the . operator to execute the getVisible method from an instance of the first class.

If this is what you want, then pass a pointer or reference to the InformationWindow member variable to the ControlClick function, then call the getVisible() function from it.

i do not want to use inheritance

i want to do the first option

But this does not work:

What is it I am doing wrong?

Code:

class cLoginManager;

class cLoginWindow
{
public:
	cLoginWindow();
	~cLoginWindow();


        void ControlClick(int id)
        {
                cLoginManager.InformationWindow.getVisible()
        };


};

Originally Posted by e66n06

Though i dont really want to do that as that requires the class to know of an object inorder to be useable.

So is there a way for the cLoginWindow, which is a member of cWindowManager to access the function of another member of cWindowManager?

You're asking how an object can operate on some other object it knows nothing about? Answer is "It can't."

cLoginManager is a type. Until you make an instance of cLoginManager you won't get anything useful out of it -

cLoginManager thing;
thing.cInformationWindow.getVisible();

Or

Code:

class cLoginWindow
{
cLoginManager thing;
public:
	cLoginWindow();
	~cLoginWindow();


        void ControlClick(int id)
        {
                thing.InformationWindow.getVisible();
        };


};

or

Code:

class cLoginWindow
{
public:
	cLoginWindow();
	~cLoginWindow();


        void ControlClick(int id, cLoginManager &thing)
        {
                thing.InformationWindow.getVisible();
        };


};

should work

but i want the object of the cLoginWindow class that was declared as a memeber of the cLoginManager object to be able to find out if the object of the cInformationManager class that was also declared as a memeber of the cLoginManager class is visible or not...

surely the "thing" object will not be the same as the instance of the cLoginManager object's member "InformationWindow"...

or am i wrong?

>> or am i wrong?
Look at the second example. The function takes a cLoginManager as an argument. Just pass the LoginWindow from your LoginManager class to the function.

ok, i will give that a go thanks everyone