Re: passing array of floats (or vectors) into another function - data scope - hmmm. Very ugly...

From:
Werner <werasm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:04:17 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<71c14824-1b3f-4133-9ac7-6c50924eabcd@v8g2000vbe.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 17, 9:20 pm, someone <newsbo...@gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]

Maybe it's a simple question for you... When I wrote the first post, I
confused myself a bit. I still think this is not very C++'ish, but
it's the best I can do now, but I would like to learn from someone
here if you have better suggestions :-)

Thanks for any comments, if you like... If not, then this is the way
it's gonna be - it works :-)


Adding to what Victor said, I've looked at the interface, and I think
this is a better example of what you should do. I've replaced the
library classes with my own placeholders. Note that no private
data exists. This compiles and runs fine courtesy of ideone.

#include <vector>

struct mglGraph
{
};

struct xresReader
{
  std::vector<float> RTTime;
  std::vector<std::vector<float> > RTSensor;
};

class mglGraphAB
{
  public:
    void Window(
      int argc, char **argv, int (*draw)(mglGraph *gr, void *p),
      const char *title, void *par=NULL, void (*reload)(int
next)=NULL )
    {
      //For example, what library code might look like...
      mglGraph gr;
      draw( &gr, par );
    }
};

int mysample_impl( mglGraph*, xresReader* )
{
  //Do work here!!! All xresReader data available...
  return 0;
}

int mysample( mglGraph *gr, void* param )
{
  //Delegate work to ...impl.
  return mysample_impl( gr, static_cast<xresReader*>( param ) );
}

int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
  //[snip]

  //Ensure scope of xresReader exceeds that of mglGraphAB.
  //They might be encapsulated in a class as members...

  xresReader myBinReader;
  mglGraphAB gr;
  gr.Window( argc, argv, mysample, "My Window", &myBinReader );
  return 0;
}

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