Enable Polymorphism on Run()

From:
Immortal Nephi <Immortal_Nephi@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:19:52 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<413477e3-968c-4c7a-83ed-0434970c84ee@a5g2000pre.googlegroups.com>
    I am trying to enable polymorphism. I created three derived classes
as B1, B2, and B3. class B1, B2, and B3 are derived from class A.
Only one virtual function Run() is invoked to select class B1, B2, or
B3 from class A.
    I do not want to reassign reference of class B1, B2, and B3 to class
A pointer inside main() body. They can be done inside Run() body.
When you compile and run my source code, Run() is always invoked to
class B1 each time.
    Please assist me to make the correction. Thanks for your advice.

#include <iostream>

class A
{
public:

    A() : regA(0), regX(0), regY(0)
    {
        cout << "A()\n";
    }

    ~A()
    {
        cout << "~A()\n";
    }

    void virtual Run(A* pa, A& ra)
    {
        cout << "A::Run()\n";
    }

protected:
    int regA;
    int regX;
    int regY;
};

class B1 : public A
{
public:

    B1() : A()
    {
        cout << "B1()\n";
    }

    ~B1()
    {
        cout << "~B1()\n";
    }

    void virtual Run(A* pa, A& ra)
    {
        cout << "B1::Run()\n";
        pa = &ra;
    }
};

class B2 : public A
{
public:

    B2() : A()
    {
        cout << "B2()\n";
    }

    ~B2()
    {
        cout << "~B2()\n";
    }

    void virtual Run(A* pa, A& ra)
    {
        cout << "B2::Run()\n";
        pa = &ra;
    }
};

class B3 : public A
{
public:

    B3() : A()
    {
        cout << "B3()\n";
    }

    ~B3()
    {
        cout << "~B3()\n";
    }

    void virtual Run(A* pa, A& ra)
    {
        cout << "B3::Run()\n";
        pa = &ra;
    }
};

int main()
{
    B1 b1;
    B2 b2;
    B3 b3;
    A* pa = &b1;

    pa->Run(pa, b2); // invoke B1:Run() & Reassign B2 to Run()
    pa->Run(pa, b3); // invoke B2:Run() & Reassign B3 to Run()
    pa->Run(pa, b1); // invoke B3:Run() & Reassign B1 to Run()

    pa->Run(pa, b2); // invoke B1:Run() & Reassign B2 to Run()
    pa->Run(pa, b3); // invoke B2:Run() & Reassign B3 to Run()
    pa->Run(pa, b1); // invoke B3:Run() & Reassign B1 to Run()

    system("system");

    return 0;
}

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