stl container- vector + polymorphism

[Jairus]

I have a base class Employee, and two derived classes FullTimeEmp and PartTimeEmp.

I used an stl container - vector this way....

vector<Employee> workers;

I use 'workers' to store all, that is FullTimeEmp, PartTimeEmp and Employee. When I access them through workers.at(i) and try to call a virtual method in the classes- getPay()...it doesn't work. It keeps calling the Employee getPay() . I want it to call each differently depending on whether its a PartTimeEmp or FullTimeEmp accessed. Help! How do I achieve polymorphism?

example:
class Employe {....);
class FullTimeEmpublic Employee {};
class PartTimeEmpublic Employee {};

vector<Employee> emps;
FullTimeEmp fte(....);
PartTimeEmp pte(...);
emps.push_back(fte);
emps.push_back(pte);

double fulltimeEmppay = emps.at(0).getPay();
double parttimeEmppay = emps.at(1).getPay();
//so the getPay() method isn't polymorphic...how can I makeit polymorphic?

I have the method getPay() as virtual in baseclass Employee and have overriden it well in the derived classes.

Jairus

 

[Jairus]

I guess I solved my own problem....is there anyone out there?

so I should've used vector<Shape *> emps;

then call the virtual method using... emps.at(i)->getPay();

That gives it the polymorphic feeling......!

thanks anyways...everyone who viewed this post!