Re: Singleton and static function

Hi,

I have a singleton class defined like this :

class UIManager : public CSingleton<UIManager>,
                                  public CObject
{
protected:
        DECLARE_DYNAMIC(UIManager)
        friend class CSingleton<UIManager>;

        UIManager();
        virtual ~UIManager();

public:
...

};

and I was using this code like this :

A)
UIManager* l_pUiMgr = UIManager::GetInstance();
ASSERT (l_pUiMgr != NULL);
l_pUiMgr->GetResText( a_ResId, bStripHtml);

But I was fed up with always typing this so I have declared below my
UIManager class a static function :

static inline UIManager& UIManager() { return *(UIManager::GetInstance()); }

and I wanted to be able to call it like that :

UIManager().GetResText( a_ResId, bStripHtml);

The problem is I get some compilations errors with the code in A)

5>c:\wce_v42\inc\BaseView.h(227) : error C2065: 'l_pUiMgr' : undeclared
identifier

Why I cannot write UIManager* now ?