2009/1/14 Germán Diago <germandiago@gmail.com>
What's wrong with this code? When I push_back ptr to the vector, it pushes 0 instead of
the value contained in ptr (which I checked and is non-zero).


Try this:

std::vector<boost::shared_ptr<BaseClass> > baseobjects = get_base_objects(path);

    std::vector<boost::shared_ptr<DerivedClass> > result(get_base_objects.size());
    BOOST_FOREACH (boost::shared_ptr<BaseClass> en, baseobjects)
    {
        boost::shared_ptr<DerivedClass> ptr = boost::dynamic_pointer_cast<DerivedClass>(en);
        if (!ptr)
            std::cout << "Dynamic cast failed!" << std::endl;
        result.push_back(ptr);
        if (!result.back())
            std::cout << "Push back failed!" << std::endl;
    }

And check what it prints.

Roman Perepelitsa.