deriving from class object with owl i am trying to define my own class derived from the object class so that i may insert them into a hashtable a class provided by the container class library i have defined all of the pure virtual functions of object but i still get an error when i attempt to allocate a hashentry object cannot create instance of abstract class hashentry has anyone derived from class object before what have i left out here are the virtual functions that i defined from object virtual classtype isa const return hashentryclass virtual pchar nameof const return hashentry virtual hashvaluetype hashvalue const return hashvalue hwindow note hwindow is defined in hashentry virtual int isequal const object far obj const return this hashentry obj virtual void printon rostream os const os hwindow is void far hwindow n bowden wise computer science dept rensselaer polytechnic inst troy ny internet wiseb cs rpi edu
