From: NOSPAMsl AT psycode DOT com (Gili) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.os2.programmer.misc,gnu.gcc.help Subject: C++ problem -- Over 30 people were unable to help me, can you?! Date: 17 Jan 1998 00:51:46 GMT Organization: Generation.NET Lines: 27 Message-ID: Reply-To: NOSPAMsl AT psycode DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: portD23.Generation.NET Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Hi, I created a class called File() which inherites fstream() publically (i.e. class File : public fstream) I'd like to call fstream()'s constructor whenever File()'s constructor is called. However, I have run into a major problem. I can call the constructor in this way: " File::File(const char* name, int mode, int prot): fstream(name, mode, prot) { } " However, I'd like to use exception-handling and that isn't possible in the constructor initialization. What I'd like to do is to be able to call the fstream() constructor from the body of File()'s constructor. This would allow me to use exception-handling... However, simply calling fstream() in the body seems to make C++ think I'm creating an fstream() variable instead of calling the constructor. Also, when I try using ::fstream() to call the constructor, the call *seems* to work but my file does not open correctly (which it does when fstream() is called from the constructor initialization.) Does anyone have any idea how this problem could be solved? Gili