Re: Exposing classes via __declspec(dllexport)
"Jason Newell" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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As soon as I sent my OP, I realized that I didn't spell out that I had
converted the project from .dll to static lib. I also realized after OP
that __declspec(dllexport) wasn't really needed since I made that
conversion.
Since you don't need to worry about __declspec(dllexport) anymore, just make
the ctor protected or private.
I will certainly research more based off your suggestion. Your response
is using terminology that I need to equate to code so I'll have to try and
google for examples because right off hand I have no idea how to implement
what you've suggested. I appreciate the pointers (no pun intended).
David W's use of interfaces is a good one that I also use, but maybe you
don't need all that. One other thing you might look into is overriding the
new() method for your class, so that when the caller does do a new of your
class, it will call your overridden function. (I've not done that so I
don't know how well it works.)
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