Pass the Class Please

[Gorecki]

Hello,
I'm having trouble passing a class object that requires a single parameter for the constructor.

The result I want being, inside another class, pass the already initialized object's pointer to another variable.

eg.
//FirstClass Constructor
FirstClass::FirstClass(char* name)
{
// Start with file not open.
fOpen = false;

// Store the file name.
strcpy(fName, name);
}


//Create FirstClass
FirstClass * FC = new FirstClass("testfile.dat"


//Second Class Constructor
SecondClass::SecondClass(FirstClass* theFirst)
{
FirstClass * dupFirst = theFirst;
}

//Create SecondClass
SecondClass * SC = new SecondClass(FC);

It doesn't appear 'dupFirst' is getting assigned the values from 'theFirst'. Is it because of the missing constructor parameter from FirstClass?

Any help would be appreciated.

Brian

 

[yaronb]

Hi..

As is seems to me, your dupFirst variable is a local variable (inside the constructor) and not a member of your SecondClass class - so, whenever you exit from that constructor, it's value will be gone ....

does it help ?

Yaron.

 

[Gorecki]

It does. Couple hours too late, but better then never.

I had a couple of issues. Yes the 'dupFirst' was being treated as a local. I made it global to the class, the had to make a 'copy constructor' in the FirstClass.

Works like a charm now. Amazing how something so stupid can drive us nuts!!!

B