C++ All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition

Chapter 4

Advanced Class Usage

IN THIS CHAPTER

Using polymorphism effectively

Adjusting member access when deriving new classes

Multiple-inheriting new classes

Making virtual inheritance work correctly

Putting one class or type inside another

Classes are amazingly powerful. You can do so much with them. In this chapter, you discover many of the extra features you can use in your classes. But these aren’t just little extras that you may want to use on occasion. If you follow the instructions in this chapter, you should find that your understanding of classes in C++ greatly improves, and you’ll want to use many of these topics throughout your programming.

This chapter also discusses many of the issues that come up when you’re deriving new classes and inheriting members. This discussion includes virtual inheritance and multiple inheritance, topics that people mess up a lot. As part of this discussion, you see the ways you can put classes and types inside other classes.

You don’t have ...