Class protection classifications

[HellfireXP]

Is there a way to make the Height property of CELL in the code below act in a way that allows the programmer to access Height without changing it?

I've tried protected, public, and private. Public allows the user to access the variable 'Height', however it also allows them to change the variable. I only want them to be able to access it similar to a function that returns a value, but without changing it.

class CELL{
private:
  int Height;
};

class grid{
public:
  std::vector<CELL> cell;
};

void DoStuff()
{
  grid g;
  int Height = g.cell[0].Height;
}

[Huy]

use (static) const. But you have to initialize it.

const int Height = 5;

or
static const int Height = 5;

[HellfireXP]

Thanks, that's what I was afraid of. Based on grid properties I'll add later, the Height would have to be a variable that changes. I don't want the user to be able to change the cell dimensions directly, instead being done through the grid class.

For example...

class grid{
  void BuildGrid(int rows, int columns, int gridWidth, int gridHeight);
};

Based on the parameters sent to BuildGrid, the individual cell Heights would be calculated.

[MiiNiPaa]

How about adding getter for that value?

Or you can google property class, but I would not recommend it.