Overriding static variables when subclassing

Question

I have a class, lets call it A, and within that class definition I have the following:

static QPainterPath *path;

Which is to say, I\'m dec

Answer 1

You might be able to do a variant on a mix in or Curiously recurring template pattern

#include 

typedef const char QPainterPath;

class Base
{
public:
    virtual void paint() { printf( "test: %s\n", getPath() ); }
    virtual QPainterPath* getPath() = 0;
};

template 
class Holder : public Base
{
protected:
    static QPainterPath* path;
    virtual QPainterPath* getPath() { return path; }
};

class Data1 : public Holder
{
};

class Data2 : public Holder
{
};

template <> QPainterPath* Holder::path = "Data1";
template <> QPainterPath* Holder::path = "Data2";

int main( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
Base* data = new Data1;
data->paint();
delete data;

data = new Data2;
data->paint();
delete data;
}

I have just run this code in CodeBlocks and got the following:

test: Data1
test: Data2

Process returned 0 (0x0)   execution time : 0.029 s
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