Re: CMap and struct

From:
David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 03 May 2007 07:29:33 -0500
Message-ID:
<OpNQLZXjHHA.1388@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
Vahid wrote:

I have a struct in my program defined as below:

struct SDataType {
  unsigned long nNamespace;
  unsigned long nDataType;
  SDataType& operator=(SDataType& s2) { nNamespace = s2.nNamespace;
nDataType = s2.nDataType; return *this; }
  bool operator==(SDataType s2) { return ((nNamespace ==
s2.nNamespace) && (nDataType == s2.nDataType)); }
};

And I have defined a CMap variable as below:

CMap<SDataType, SDataType&, unsigned int, unsigned int> map;

However, I get this compilation error:

error C2679: binary '=' : no operator found which takes a right-hand
operand of type 'const SDataType' (or there is no acceptable
conversion)

which refers to this portion of "template<class KEY, class ARG_KEY,
class VALUE, class ARG_VALUE>
void CMap<KEY, ARG_KEY, VALUE, ARG_VALUE>::GetNextAssoc(POSITION&
rNextPosition, KEY& rKey, VALUE& rValue) const" function in
afxtempl.h:

rKey = pAssocRet->key;

Does anyone know how this problem can be resolved? I'd appreciate your
help.


Vahid:

As others have noted you have some problems with the signatures of
operator =() and operator ==().

As to HashKey(), you probably don't really need a hashed map, in which
case you could use std::map from the standard library (std::map is a
tree-based map, not a hash map).

Personally I never use the MFC collection classes. The standard libraray
ones are just much better designed, IMHO. Most recent C++
implementations also have hash_map, if you really need a hashed map.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

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