Inheritance Question

From: BCC (bcc_at_akanta.com)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:35:26 GMT

If I have a base class like this:

class A {
public:
    void Foo() { Foo1(); }
    void Foo1() { Foo2(); }
    void Foo2() { int x = 0; }
};

And I derive from it and override Foo2():
class B: public A {
public:
    void Foo2() { int y = 1; }
}

Now if I call Foo() from an instance of my derived class:
B b;
b.Foo();

When it gets to Foo2() it calls the Foo2() from my base class and not my
derived class.

Is this normal behavior? So if I want to override one small function buried
in several other function calls I have to explicitly override all those
functions in my derived class?

Thanks,
Bryan

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