Classes subclasses question

[Willo123]

Hello!

class parentclass{

};

class subclass: public parentclass{
void print(){
cout << "Hello";
}

};

Can I somehow then access the subclass methods outside the class?
Like

int main(){
subclass Sub;
vector<parentclass*> AllObjects;
AllObjects.push_back(&Sub);
AllObjects[0]->print();
}

Why won't this work? Why can AllObjects[0] only acces parentclass methods? As I see it, it points towards an object which is a Subclass? So it should work?

[TheTud69]

A pointer to the base class can't access members from derived classes because there is no way to tell if all classes inheriting from parentClass implement print()
Instead you could put a virtual function in the parentClass, so derived classes will implement it in various ways

[Willo123]

Hmm alright:) Thanks