Managing my array

[hopesfall]

So I have this template based class which has an array,
queue<T> * items[MAX_HEAP];, and I want to test if the array is empty. How would I do this? I've tried:

queue<T> *itemsPtr = items[0];

if(itemsPtr->size() != 0){
...
}

but that gives me an run time exception...

Also, how would I point my itemsPtr to the next element in my array?

[kbw]

but that gives me an run time exception...

Has the array been initialized?

[hopesfall]

Yeah, I do something along the lines of:

   queue<T> * elementQueue = new queue<T>;

   elementQueue->push(newItem);
   // place the new item at the end of the heap
   items[size] = elementQueue;

[kbw]

Is that size variable, that's used as an index, the correct value?