Re: Polymorphism?

From:
"Ian" <nospam@nospam.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sat, 13 May 2006 18:03:42 +0100
Message-ID:
<uknzx8qdGHA.4148@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
"Robby" <Robby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:57B9008B-7415-4288-8A40-0F3881F01E2C@microsoft.com...

Hi Ian...

Thankyou for replying!

well here is the code with the implentations, however no luck I still get
the same 2 errors....
===================================================

//==//ADT BASE CLASS
class components
{
public:
components();
virtual ~components() {}
virtual void ACommonMethod()= 0;

private:
int a;
};

void components::ACommonMethod()
{
a = 10;
}

//ADT
class actions:public components
{
public:
actions();
virtual ~actions(){}
};

class A_SETV:public actions
{
public:
A_SETV();
virtual ~A_SETV(){}
virtual void ACommonMethod();
virtual void InnitStep();
protected:
int zzz;
};

void A_SETV::ACommonMethod()
{
components::ACommonMethod();
}

void A_SETV::InnitStep()
{
zzz = 20;
}
=====================================================

I don't know what else to try... I don't have much experience with
creating
classes with inheritance and polymorphsim!

Do you have any other idea of what can be generating these errors....?
or let me know if I made a mistake in my code this time around!

Your help is much appreciated in getting me over this hurdle!

Thankyou very much!

--
Best regards
Robert

"Ian" wrote:

"Robby" <Robby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:565FC2E2-80B3-41AA-A79C-FB8CE1657663@microsoft.com...

Hello,

I though I had understood the concept of inheritance, poymorphism and
ADT's... but I guess there is still some minor details that escape me.

Please consider the following code:
==================================================
//ADT BASE CLASS
class components
{
public:
components();
virtual ~components();
virtual void ACommonMethod()= 0;

protected:
};

//ADT
class actions:public components
{
public:
actions();
virtual ~actions();
};

class A_SETV:public actions
{
public:
A_SETV();
virtual ~A_SETV();
virtual void ACommonMethod();
virtual void InnitStep();
protected:
};

//Instantiate a A_SETV object so I can fetch its methods
components *pA_SETV = new A_SETV;

//Fetch A_SETV method
pA_SETV->ACommonMethod();

delete pSetV;

==================================================

The following code fragment gives me the following errors:

WndProc.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public:
__thiscall
A_SETV::A_SETV(void)" (??0A_SETV@@QAE@XZ) referenced in function "long
__stdcall WndProc(struct HWND__ *,unsigned int,unsigned int,long)"
(?WndProc@@YGJPAUHWND__@@IIJ@Z)

Debug/MT_3.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

I don't know what I am doing wrong.. I have declared a simple ADT
(abstract
data type) called 'components' and made another class derive from the
base
class called 'actions' which is another ADT. The reason why I beleive
that
actions is an ADT is because it does not overide the pure virtual
function
in
the base class...right!

Then I derived another class from actions called A_SETV and I was
trying
to
fetch a common method in the base class by doing:

components *pA_SETV = new A_SETV;
pA_SETV->ACommonMethod();

I also tried to fetch a method in the A_SETV class as so:

A_SETV *pA_SETV = new A_SETV;
pA_SETV->virtual void InnitStep();

In either case I always get the errors stipulated above....

PS... and the best part of all this, is that, last night, this program
compile withou any errors..... confused, I ask my self, what's going
on!

Can someone help....

All suggestions a very appreciated!

Thankyou all!

--
Best regards
Robert


it compiles OK, it doesn't link because you haven't provided the
implementation


still not enough implementation, in particular no constructor implementation

your link error is basically "failed to find the constructor for class
A_SETV", then
the linker will complain about actions missing constructor and then
components

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