Question

my dizzyCreature class inherits from both a creature class and a dizzy class. It is also part of a polymorphic collection of creature classes. If I know that my object in the creature class is a dizzyCreature, is there a way to call a function from the dizzy class?
I have tried

creature[2].dizzyCreature::someFunction();

and

dizzyCreature::creature[2].someFunction();

and neither works. Any ideas?

Answer 1

If I understand correctly what you have is something like this: list<Creature*>. This list contains some dizzyCreature instances. On those instances you want to call methods of dizzy class. If this is the objective then you can use dynamic_cast to achieve this. Lets say you have Create* pCreature then you can do:

dizzyCreature* pDizzyCreature = dynamic_cast<dizzyCreature*>(pCreature);
if(pDizzyCreature )
{
  pDizzyCreature->someDizzyClassMethod();
}