Problem in accessing the protected datamember

[rag84dec]

Hi,
I have a protected vector declared in a header file abc.h

class A
{
protected: typedef vector<int> y;
y vecInstance;
void useProtected(void);
}
 

To access the protected vecInstance i declared useProtected() in the same classs as above
I used it in another cpp file "a.cpp"

A instanceOfA;
instanceOfA.useProtected();
 

And i finally declared "useProtected()" in one cpp file
[code]
void A::useProtected()
{
int i=vecInstance.size();
}
[/ode]
but ended up getting error

Protected cannot use protected member
 

please help....
}

[Darryl]

protected: is not a line item modifier, everything listed after protected: will be protected. You need to add a public: section

class foo
{
protected:
int y;
int x;
public:
int getx();
int gety();
}
 

both of my member variables are protected, while both of the get functions are public