Making a vector of instances of different subclasses

Question

Tried searching, nothing returns( i ithink).

Is it possible to make a vector of an abstract class?

For example, I have the super class Unit.

And I Ha

Answer 1

Since each of those objects is different sizes, the proper way to do this is a container containing pointers to the base class Unit, (and be sure it has a virtual destructor.

Option 1: boost::ptr_vector (requires boost libraries, which you should have anyway)

ptr_vector units;
units.push_back(new Soldier());

Option 2: std::vector> (requires C++11 compiler)

std::vector> units;
units.emplace_back(std::unique_ptr(new Soldier()));