[C++] Constructors with polymorphism

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I've got a base class with 2 ints and 3chars in the private section. My Derived classes have a few more ints and some calculated floats. I'm trying to pass the base class privates so that when a derived class is contructed, I can load in values for everything in the constructor. Is this even doable?

Here's the base:

class athlete {
protected:	
char *firstname;
char *lastname;	
char *team;	
int jersey;	
int gplayed;

Ex. derived class:

 class bball : public athlete{
private:
	int rebounds;
	int assists;
	int points;

and the main:

void main()
{
	athlete *ptr;
	ptr = new bball("Steve", "Kerr", "Spurs", 25, 50, 5, 10, 5);
	ptr->calcFigs();
	ptr = new foot("Joe", "Blah", "LameGuys", 1, 12, 500, 500, 2);
	ptr->calcFigs();
	ptr = new base("Neil", "Garcia", "Marlins", 5, 10, 100, 20, 5, 1, 1);
	ptr->calcFigs();
	ptr = new judo("Morito", "Ushieba", "Tsunamis", 0, 30, 90, 15, 30);
	ptr->calcFigs();
	delete ptr;
}

 

[X-Istence]

It might help if you would paste the entire code so that we can take a look. i still dont understand what you are trying to do.