Re: How to Define a global const class variable in MFC?

From:
"Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:12:56 -0500
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<8i6jb455klotvaj7sdtn7oa65lcvncql2u@4ax.com>
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:26:00 -0700, Electronic75
<Electronic75@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Thank you all, you all made a right point I made a mistake trying to change a
const variable. but the problem still persists and it had nothing to do with
const keyword. The CMyInfoArrayClass is a MFC generated class and the header
file
generated by MFC, The actual name of class is CCommandCollection
and this is the header file

#pragma once
#include "DevCommand.h"
// CCommandCollection command target

class CCommandCollection : public CObject
{
public:
// DECLARE_DYNAMIC(CCommandCollection);

    CCommandCollection();
    virtual ~CCommandCollection();
    CArray <CCommandCollection> m_aCommandCollect;
    CArray <CDevCommand> m_aCommands;
    static const char* CommanCollection[20];
public:
    bool IsBlock(void);
public:
    unsigned char m_cCollectionType;
public:
    CString m_sCollectionName;
    CString GetCollectionName(void);

public:
    int AddCommand(CDevCommand command);
public:
    void SetCollectionID(CString sName, UCHAR cCollectionType);
};

Two points,
First CDevCommand that its header file is included in header file of
CCommandCollection is another class that I tried to define a global variable
of it in another file in that case I didn't encounter any compile error.
Second You can see in this line
    CArray <CCommandCollection> m_aCommandCollect;
I have defined an array of the same type of class. Compiler didn't get me
error for that(if I remove global definition of CCommandCollection variable
program compiles smoothly) but I suspect if it can cause trouble.
I need such definition because I need a class that can work like a file
system I mean you have a folder which is collection of files and in that
folder you still can have sub folders which is again a collection of files
and etc I need a command collection that can accommodate either commands or a
collection of commands that each collection may or may not have its own
collection or commands.
Sorry my english is not good but I hope I could tell my mean.

Thank you very much for your time and advice.


Sorry, but that really doesn't clarify anything, at least not for me. Let
me expand a bit on what I wrote last time. To declare a global variable so
that others can use it, do something like this:

// x.h
class X { ... }; // This could of course come from another header file.

extern X x;

// x.cpp
#include "x.h"

X x;

Now add the files to your project, and you will be fine. Wherever you want
to use the global x, #include "x.h" first.

--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP

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