Accessor function for CPoint data member

Hello,

This is probably real simple, but I can't seem to figure it out.

I have a CPoint object that is a data member of another class.
and all of the data members are protected.

I want to return a CPoint object using a getfunction() method to get the values of x and y in which to use it in another class definition. All of my other getfunction() methods returns a primitive data type.

Is this a reasonable approach? A code example would be great!

for some reason, I haven't seen an accessor function that returns an object.

I appreciate any help.

Since CPoint is a really simple object, I don't see any reasons not to return it from a function, as well as pass it as a argument etc. Returning a reference allows anyone to modify this object and that's not the idea of having a protected member.

Code:

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class CSomeClass
{

public:
CPoint GetPoint() { return m_point; }

protected:
CPoint m_point;
};

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Code:

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class yourClass {
  public:
      //...
      getX();
      getY();
  protected:
      CPoint myPoint;
}

// In yout cpp file

int yourClass::getX()
{
  return myPoint.x;
}
int yourClass::getY()
{
  return myPoint.y;
}

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I don't know if this is what you need...but

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jack

Thanks to all of the replies.

It wasn't as "deep" as I thought it was.

I appreciate the help.