Re: A generic pointerOfMethod?

From:
"Marcus Heege" <NOSPAM@heege.net>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Fri, 5 May 2006 18:17:46 +0200
Message-ID:
<#XKS19FcGHA.4604@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
Hi Nick
"nick" <nick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9A884872-7465-4364-976E-FB8C5C259C30@microsoft.com...

These methods in A are very similar. But some may have int parameter while
others have double, and a couple of them with string parameter... The big
classes is written by others.

I hope I can defined a generic algorithm to consume the big class. So in
my
implement, the only change part is a mapping between array of B and A's
method....


You can pobably design something with intermediate classes and virtual
functions to achieve this:

class BaseDelegate
{
  A* m_pA;
public:
  BaseDelegate(A* pa) : m_pA(pA) {}

  virtual void Invoke(int) = 0;
};

typedef void (A::*PMFNINT)(int);
class IntDelegate : BaseDelegate
{
  PMFNINT m_pMFN;
public:
  IntDelegate(m_pA, PMFNINT pMFN) : BaseDelegate(m_pA), m_pMFN(pMFN) {}
  void Invoke(int i) { m_pA->*pMFN(i); }
};

typedef void (A::*PMFNINT)(double);
class DoubleDelegate : BaseDelegate
{
  PMFNINT m_pMFN;
public:
  DoubleDelegate(m_pA, PMFNINT pMFN) : BaseDelegate(m_pA), m_pMFN(pMFN) {}
  void Invoke(int i) { m_pA->*pMFN(i); }
};

Your calling class can then have a member variable of type BaseDelegate that
points either to an IntDelegate or a DoubleDelegate. In both bases the call
would be
    pBaseDelegate->Invoke(42);

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