Re: object used to convert a pointer to a c string

From:
Vincent R <anonymous@nospam.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:49:52 +0200
Message-ID:
<4a4a5e4c$0$25361$426a74cc@news.free.fr>

and I am testing like that :

switch( gynPropVal->ulPropType )
            {
            case CEVT_LPWSTR: { pRet = IConvPtr<wchar_t *>
(lpProp->val.lpwstr) ;break; }
            case CEVT_UI4: { pRet = IConvPtr<USHORT *>
(&(lpProp->val.uiVal)) ;break; }
            default: { pRet = (void*)0 ;break; }
            }

but I get the following error :

 error C2440: '<function-style-cast>' : cannot convert from 'wchar_t* *'
to 'IConvPtr<wchar_t*>'
1> No constructor could take the source type, or constructor
overload resolution was ambiguous

and this is normal because it's not a wchar_t* * but a wchar_t* and if I
change the template to with a pointer syntax it doesn't help.


Now seems to work but I don't know why I don't like it again ...

// For any type do only an assignment
template <typename T>
class IConvPtr
{
public:
    IConvPtr(T pVal) : m_ptr(pVal)
    {
        ;
    }

    IConvPtr& IConvPtr::operator=(T aptr)
    {
        m_ptr = aptr;
    }

     operator void *()
     {
         return m_ptr;
     }

private:
    void* m_ptr;
};

// If assign from a wchar_t do something special
template <>
class IConvPtr<wchar_t*>
{
public:
    IConvPtr(wchar_t* pVal)
    {
        // Specific stuff
        m_ptr = pVal;
    }

    IConvPtr& IConvPtr::operator=(wchar_t* aptr)
    {
        // Specific stuff
        m_ptr = aptr;
    }

    operator void *()
     {
         return m_ptr;
     }
private:
    void* m_ptr;
};

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