Re: Polymorphism - accessing derived class data members
Alexh <alexh1@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
On Feb 1, 11:48 am, "Igor Tandetnik" <itandet...@mvps.org> wrote:
Alexh <ale...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Later, a user may need to modify an existing Dog. Currently, I do
this by opening DogDlg from a modify menu and on IDOK I delete the
exisiting Dog and simultaneously create a new one from the new
dialog data (delete/replace is transparent to user). The problem
arises when there is more than one Dog because then the dialog may
not reflect the correct data for the selected element (dialog
reflects last useage). Ideally, I would like to have the dialog
data reflect that actual data associated with the Dog I am
modifying.
How do you know that the currently selected element is actually a
Dog, suitable for editing with DogDlg?
There is a CString var in CElement, say CString ElementName;
That's a poor man's RTTI, so what you are doing is not much different =
from dynamic_cast. If you want to be ideologically pure and true to the =
ways of polymorphism, grasshopper, you'd have a virtual method in =
CElement, something like ShowEditDialog(CWnd* parent), whereby each =
derived class would show a dialog designed for this class. Naturally, =
since the class knows its own type, it can pass a strongly typed pointer =
(specifically, 'this' pointer) to its associated dialog.
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