Hello. I'm trying to store a child class into it's a pointer of it's baseClass, like this:
baseClass*test = new subClass;Which works and all, except I'm having trouble using 'delete' to destroy the newly created subClass. So something like this:
baseClass*test = new subClass;
delete baseClass;Here's a more accurate example of what I'm trying to do, exactly:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
class baseClass
{
public:
virtual void Blah() = 0;
};
class subClass : public baseClass
{
public:
virtual void Blah()
{
cout << "I'm sub class 1" << endl;
}
~subClass()
{
cout << "Sub class 1 destroyed..." << endl;
}
};
class subClass2 : public baseClass
{
public:
virtual void Blah()
{
cout << "Hi there! I'm sub class 2" << endl;
}
~subClass2()
{
cout << "Sub class 2 destroyed..." << endl;
}
};
int main()
{
baseClass*test;
int input;
cout << "Enter 1 or 2:" << endl;
cin >> input;
if (input == 1)
{
test = new subClass;
}
else if (input == 2)
{
test = new subClass2;
}
else
{
cout << "I said, 1 OR 2, bye bye" << endl;
return 0;
}
test->Blah();
delete test;
return 0;
}The "Hi I'm subclass 1/2" thing comes up, but the "Sub class x destroyed..." does not. Leading me to believe that it's not being destroyed. How can I delete the subclass with the 'test' pointer, without knowing if the user entered 1 (for subClass) or 2 (for subClass2)?
Thanks.
