Make inherited protected to public

You can write some geat/set access functions, but the whole idea of declaring a member variable 'protected' is to prevent public access to it.   Solution:  DOn't declare it 'protected' in the first place.

-- Dan

Oh yes, you can use 'friend' to (effectively) make public a member function that had been declared 'protected', but that is not available for member variables.

-- Dan

Is this the sort of thing you are looking for.....?


class CA
{
  protected:
  int m_isVisible;
  };

class CB : protected CA
{
  public:
    using CA::m_isVisible;
  };

class CC
{
  public:
  void Method1();
  };

void CC::Method1()
{
  CB c;
  c.m_isVisible = true;
  }

Here's an idea:  You can make a reference to a variable that looks and acts like that protected variable:

class Base {
public:
     int nPub;
protected:
     int nProt;
};
class Derived:public Base {
public:
     Derived() : nProt(Base::nProt) { };
     int& nProt;
};

void main() {
     Derived oDerived;
     oDerived.nProt= 1;
}
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If it quacks, it *is* a duck.

-- Dan