Help with inhertiance in C++

anonymous_user_026d1c74 · November 14, 2014, 2:34pm

Hi all,

I’m relatively new to C++ (I’ve done a fair amount of Java beforehand) and I’m majorly struggling with inheritance. All I want to do is run the GenerateWordData() function in the attached code in a different class but I can’t, for the life of me, get it to work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

anonymous_user_44eacecf1 · November 14, 2014, 5:54pm

Hello ,

Its difficult to diagnose the problem without knowing the exact error. Could you please edit your post with the compiler error (assuming this is compiler related) and/or your WordBank header file.

With that said, my first guess would be that your GenerateWordData function is declared protected/private within WordBank.h. If this is true then it’ll never be accessible outside the class, which conveniently enough sounds like what is happening here.

anonymous_user_026d1c74 · November 15, 2014, 8:50pm

Hi, it is set to public in the header. I have provided more information here:

anonymous_user_026d1c74 · November 15, 2014, 11:50pm

Someone has provided me with the answer in the below thread:

Just me being an idiot!