Nested class; accessing non-static members from the enclosing class

[Douglas Dean]

Is there any way in a nested class to access non-static members from the current instance of the enclosing class? ex. class outer { public: int m_value; int m_value2 class inner { int getAccess() { // ?? How to do it ?? return **(??)**m_value; } } } Thanks Doug

[Douglas Dean]

Make that...__gc class outer { public: int m_value; int m_value2 __gc class inner { int getAccess() { // ?? How to do it ?? return (??)m_value; } } } ...forgot the managed qualifiers...

[2bee]

Hi Douglas, I don't know exactly if this helps but I'll give it a try. Basically i have just converted the C# example of nested classes into C++/CLI. It seems to me that this is a way to get it working (it actually did work): public ref class Container { public: Container(void); private: int m_value; public: void SetValue(int pVal) { m_value = pVal; } public: ref class InnerClass { private: Container^ m_parent; public: InnerClass(void) {}; InnerClass(Container^ parent) { m_parent = parent; } public: int getAccess() { return m_parent->m_value; } }; }; Container^ outer = gcnew Container(); Container::InnerClass^ nested = gcnew Container::InnerClass(outer); Console::WriteLine(nested->getAccess()); // prints 4 outer->SetValue(5); Console::WriteLine(nested->getAccess()); // prints 5 hope this helps, best regards Tobias

[Douglas Dean]

Yeah, that's what I ended up doing. I wonder if there's a cleaner way, though...

[Douglas Dean]

Thanks, BTW...