Thoughts on Menu System for Book Inventory

I have created a pure virtual class called Menu for my menu system.

Code:

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#ifndef MENU_H
#define MENU_H

class Menu{
    public:
        virtual void display_menu() const=0;
        int get_option() const;
       
        virtual bool validate_option(int) const=0;
        virtual void process_option(int) const=0;
    private:
        int option;
};
#endif

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I then create concrete mainmenu and will implement an edit menu and query menu. I will then have individual member functions that are called by the pure virtual function process_option, that way I can use a base class pointer to refer to a derived class object and still call derived class member functions within process_option.
somthing like this (exerpt from definition for class MainMenu:public Menu)

Code:

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void MainMenu::display_menu() const{
    cout << "\t\tMain Menu\n";
    cout << "1.  Display Library\n";
    cout << "2.  Edit Library\n";
    cout << "3.  Query Library\n";
    cout << "4.  Save Library\n";
    cout << "5.  Load Library\n";
    cout << "6.  Exit"<<endl;
}

bool MainMenu::validate_option(int noption){
    bool valid;
    if (noption>=0 && noption<=6)
        valid=TRUE;
    else
        valid=FALSE;
    return valid;
}

void MainMenu::process_option(int noption){
    switch (noption){
        case 1:
                //call member function display library 
                display_library(library &);
                break;
        case 2:

        case 3:
        case 4:
        case 5:
        case 6:
        default:
                break;
    }
}

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What do you think about this implementation?
Brain Storming:with a base_class pointer can I call a derived class objects constructor ie Menu *ptrMenu=new MainMenu(library&);

case 2 would create an instance of an EditMenu will I have problems with this

here is the code for my default constructor for MainMenu how can I exit the program from process_option if case 6 is choosen

Code:

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MainMenu::MainMenu(){
   
    display_menu();
    while (!(validate_option(Menu::option))){
        Menu::option=Menu::get_option();
    }
    process_option(Menu::option);
}

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Again further input would be great as well as any suggestions or ideas on the above.

Looks pretty good to me. Encapsulating menus is something I've never done before. Maybe I'll give it a shot.

Make sure your base class has a virtual destructor or else calling delete on the base class pointer will not call the right destructor.

This schema isn't all that I imagined. I have started my second Menu an edit menu which is also derived from Menu similar to MainMenu and must create EditMenu within the process_option() function of MainMenu. Ending edit I just return to MainMenu. The code is redundant the way I handle editmain.
In main I have:

Code:

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Menu *ptrBaseMenu = new MainMenu(library);
  while((*ptrBaseMenu).get_option()!=6){
        (*ptrBaseMenu).set_option(-1);
        while (!((*ptrBaseMenu).validate_option((*ptrBaseMenu).get_option()))){
                (*ptrBaseMenu).display_menu();
                (*ptrBaseMenu).set_option((*ptrBaseMenu).input_option());
        }
        (*ptrBaseMenu).process_option((*ptrBaseMenu).get_option());
       
  }

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in mainmenu.cpp my definitions for MainMenu I have:

Code:

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void MainMenu::process_option(int noption)const{
    switch (noption){
        case 1:
                display_library(get_ptrLibrary());
                break;
        case 2: Menu *ptrEditMenu = new EditMenu(getptrLibrary());
                while((*ptrEditMenu).get_option()!=6){
                    (*ptrEditMenu).set_option(-1);
                      while (!((*ptrEditMenu).validate_option((*ptrEditMenu).get_option()))){
                            (*ptrEditMenu).display_menu();
                            (*ptrEditMenu).set_option((*ptrEditMenu).input_option());
                    }
                (*ptrEditMenu).process_option((*ptrEditMenu).get_option());
       
                }
                delete ptrEditMenu;
                break;
               
        case 3:
        case 4:
        case 5:
        case 6:
        default:
                break;
    }
}

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