Hi Neil.

13-Jan-03 09:54:00, Neil Heller wrote to Jasen Betts

 JB>> I think you need to post an example with more flesh.

 NH> Therein lies a problem.  The code is hundreds of lines long and
 NH> it's encased in a Windows program.  Yes, I'm aware that I could
 NH> CSPLIT it and post it in several parts but sheesh, I'm convinced
 NH> that there's got to be a "simple" solution.

If you post windows code here I'll ignore it.

 NH> The situation is that I wish to create the object in a member
 NH> function.

????

 HN> Then I need to manipulate the data in an unrelated class
 NH> WITHOUT creating a new object in that unrelated class.

Objects of class A (for Accountant) need to have a method that can
manipulate the contents of existing objects of class B (for Books)

I think you'd need to declare A::maniputate_B() as a Friend of B

 NH> I thought that I could succeed by passing pointers to the original
 NH> class, but...

that'd get you part way there.

 -=> Bye <=-
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