I have a question regardin a smart pointer teamplate class Im writing. I have named the class SPoint and I have run into a problem in the following case: I have a baseclass class Base and a child class class Child:public Base I have a function that used to take a pointer to the base class (and therefor couled be used even with a pointer to the child class), and now I want it to take a smart pointer SPoint<Base> The problem I run into is that now I no longer can call thefunction with a smart pointer SPoint<Child> Is there someway to do that typecast from SPoint<Chiled> to SPoint<Base>? The SPoint template class only have two pointers as data members so it is not a problem tecnically but I want to know how to write it so the compiler understand. Another way to solve it is to put the Child pointer in a SPoint<Base> smartpointer but then I have to manually typecast the pointer at every time I want to use a function from the Chiled class (and to me thats nor really a smart pointer but a rather dumb one) Hopfully there are someone out there that understands my question, I tried to explain as clear as I couled

thanx for the quick answer!
Yes I know that SPoint<Base> and SPoint<child> are not releted that is the problem.
I was looking for the syntax to implement a constructor in the SPoint class that couled handle the conversion.

I will google on "Boost's smart pointer" and see what I can come up with.

boost::smart_ptr.