Re: how to declare a double dimensional array of pointers to its member functions in the class?

From:
Werner <werasm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:24:50 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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On Sep 13, 9:36 am, ramu <ramu....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
     how to declare a double dimensional array of pointers to its
member functions in the class?

And how can we access it?

I have done like this

class A;

typedef void (A::*fp)();

class A{
                fp array[2][2];

}

and am trying ti call the function like below:

A *aptr = new A;

(aptr->*array[1][1])();

Is this correct?

Regards


Another take on the same thing. Happy to have criticism, but
I don't know what you would be using this for. I would use
vectors instead of arrays. I would not allow public access
to the table (at the very least).

In addition to "the very least", you could perhaps return
a proxy encapsulating the row of a table, and overload the
subscript operator for A and for the proxy, as well as the
function operator for the proxy. This would encapsulate
it nicely and disallow the use of invalid member function
pointers.

#include <vector>
#include <iostream>

// I've moved the typedef to the class. I'm assuming you have
// good reason not to, but I would not make the typedef global.

struct A
{

  A()
  : callbackTable_( 2, MemFuncSeq( 2 ) )
  {
    callbackTable_[0][0] = &A::f1;
    callbackTable_[0][1] = &A::f2;
    callbackTable_[1][0] = &A::f3;
    callbackTable_[1][1] = &A::f4;
  }
  void operator()( int row, int col )
  {
    (this->*callbackTable_.at( row ).at( col ))();
  }
  int rowCount() const{ return callbackTable_.size(); }
  int colCount() const{ return callbackTable_[0].size(); }

  private:
  typedef void (A::*PtrMemFunc)();
  typedef std::vector<PtrMemFunc> MemFuncSeq;
  std::vector<MemFuncSeq> callbackTable_;

  void f1(){ std::cout << "f1\n"; }
  void f2(){ std::cout << "f2\n"; }
  void f3(){ std::cout << "f3\n"; }
  void f4(){ std::cout << "f4\n"; }
};

int main()
{
  A a;
  for( int row = 0; row < a.rowCount(); ++row )
  {
    for( int col = 0; col < a.colCount(); ++col )
    {
      a( row, col );
    }
  }
}

Kind regards,

Werner

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