Sometimes it is necessary for a child to get access to some data from a parent class. Specially in a multiple TopWindow project, parent pointer cannot be saved in a static location, as there are some instances of it.

A solution could be to give as argument a pointer to the parent, and spread it through all children until the one that needs it.

However I wonder if this could be a finer solution:

template <class T>
T *GetDefinedParent(Ctrl *ths) {
	T *main;
	while (ths->GetParent() != nullptr) {
		ths = ths->GetParent();
		if ((main = dynamic_cast<T*>(ths)) != nullptr)
			return main;
	}
	return nullptr;
}

And used like this from a children:

MyParentClass *parent = GetDefinedParent<MyParentClass>(this);
ASSERT(class);

int neededParameter = ~parent->importantParameter;

What do you think?