Re: organizing application properly question
kunal s patel wrote:
Well yes i need to use the methods of CMainGui from simulation......for
reference i am writing a small application so it gives a clear idea about how
i want it to work....(please bear the variable name change...i have added
appropriate comments)
//SampleDlg.h file
#pragma once
#include "afxwin.h"
#include "Resource.h"
Class has the following additional method declarations
void addtoListBox(CString s);
//SampleDlg.cpp file
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "Sample.h"
#include "SampleDlg.h"
#include "Simulation.h"
simulation *sim; //global declaration
BOOL CSampleDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
sim = new sim(this);
}
void CSampleDlg::addtoListBox(CString s)
{
m_listbox.AddString(s); //Assume there is a listbox with variable
m_listbox
}
*********************************************
//simulation.h file
#include "SampleDlg.h"
class simulation
{
public:
CSampleDlg *pmain;
simulation(LPVOID wnd);
void interpret(LPVOID);
};
//simulation.cpp file
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "Simulation.h"
simulation::simulation(LPVOID wnd)
{
pmain = (CSampleDlg*)wnd;
}
void simulation::interpret(LPVOID wnd)
{
pmain->addtoListBox("Hello");
}
I hope this makes it more clear how it works right now......but i dont want
sim to be a global variable....i want to put it into CSampleDlg.h file as a
class member and then initialize it in InitDialog and use it in
simulation.cpp file??
Now how do i do the above following??
kunal:
My impression is that you are having problems with circular includes,
and this is ahy you are resorting to global variables and violating the
type system by passing argumenets as void* and casting.
This is completely unnecessary. As Joe explained, you never need to
include A.h in B.h when the definition of class B ontains only pointers
to A. Rather you can use forward declaration.
//SampleDlg.h file
#pragma once
class simulation; // forward declaraion
class SampleDialog
{
simulation* sim;
public:
BOOL OnInitDialog();
};
//simulation.h
#pragma once
class CSampleDlg; // forward declaration
class simulation
{
CSampleDlg* pmain;
public:
simulation(CSampleDlg* wnd);
void interpret();
};
As Joe also said, it should not be necessary for your simulation class
to know that the main window pointer is a CSampleDlg*, so you should
probably be just using a CWnd*.
You seem to be trying to learn Windows programming in C++ without a
clear grasp of C++ itself (or at least its compilation model). This is a
mistake, IMHO.
--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP
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