Re: Problem with multiple inheritance

From:
"AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:21:43 -0600
Message-ID:
<f9Vol.17637$yr3.7655@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com>
You can turn on RTTI under project property-C/C++-Language-Enable Run-Time
Type Info.

I'm trying to think of a better way to design your classes, but I can't
really give you a good answer without knowing why you have designed them
they way that you have, and why they are not all inhereting from the same
class.

Why is class C a class that doesn't inherite from class A?

AliR.

"No_Name" <no_mail@no_mail.com> wrote in message
news:go167e$j0m$1@aioe.org...

AliR (VC++ MVP) a couch? sur son ?cran :

Things don't quite add up.

If InheritFromC is only in AB and ABC then how can you call it on a A *
object in your MyFunction without any casts?

Have you tried dynamic type casting? That might eliminate your problem.
(you have to turn on the RTTI compiler settings)

void MyFunction(A *myObject)
{
    C *mySecondObject = dynamic_cast<C*>(myObject);

    if (myObject != NULL)
    {
        mySecondObject->I_Am_From_C();
    }
}

AliR.


You're right, I didn't specified that class A has InheritsFromC() function
too (in fact, it's a pure virtual function).

For the moment, when I try dynamic cast, I get a strabge behaviour from
Windows CE, as my program hangs but does not crash ...

I'll be looking in my project settings to know how I can turn on RTTI
settings ... (I never used that).

I thought multiple inheritance from A and C classes would allow me to
manage my object as if it was a A object or a C object ...

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