putting a subclass in a pointer to baseclass?

[Cyprus106]

This is a pretty dumb question to ask, but I'll do it anyways.

I've got a few superclasses and a subclass. Let's say...

class BaseFruits {}
class Apple : public BaseFruits {}
class Orange : public BaseFruits {}


Now in my code I've got BaseFruits *currentFruit;

I THOUGHT that would mean I could stick Apple into currentFruit, but it won't let me, it throws an error saying it can't convert. The problem is I don't want to use dynamic_casts or anything like that because it will never know if it's an Apple, Orange, Grapefruit, whatever... So what do I do? For some reason, I thought since Apple was a subclass of BaseFruits, I could put it in there, but it's been a while since I've messed with this stuff and I figured after 5 frustrating hours Friday and a few more today I should just suck it up and ask for help.

Thanks!!

[weaknessforcats]

Works for me:

class BaseFruits {}; 
class Apple : public BaseFruits {};
class Orange : public BaseFruits {};
 
 
int main()
{
    Apple* a = new Apple;
    BaseFruits* currentFruit = a;
}
 

What are you doing different?