So, I am caught up in a dilemma right now. How am I suppose to access a pure abstract base class private member variable from a derived class? I have heard from a friend that it is possible to access it through the base constructor, but he didn't explain. How is it possible? There are some inherited classes from base class. Is there any way to gain access to the private variables ?

class Base_button
{
  private:
  bool is_vis;
  Rect rButton;

  public:

  // Constructors
  Base_button();
  Base_button( const Point &corner, double height, double width );

  // Destructor
  virtual ~ Base_button();

  // Accessors
  virtual void draw() const = 0;
  bool clicked( const Point &click ) const;
  bool is_visible() const;

  // Mutators
  virtual void show();
  virtual void hide();
  void move( const Point &loc );
};

class Button : public Base_button
{
  private:
  Message mButton;

  public:

  // Constructors
  Button();
  Button( const Point &corner, const string &label );

  // Acessors
  virtual void draw() const;

  // Mutators
  virtual void show();
  virtual void hide();
};

I want to be able access Rect and bool in the base class from the subclass