Re: Question on Progress dialog
"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote in message
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"AliR (VC++ MVP)" <AliR@online.nospam> wrote in message
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A more elegant solution (IMHO) would be to use a base class for any class
that want's to use your progress control, which has a virtual function
(perhaps even pure virtual) that gets called when the user presses the
cancel key.
class CProgressBarReceiver
{
public:
virtual void OnCancel() = NULL;
};
class CProgressDialog : public CDialog
{
CProgressDialog(CProgressBarReceiver *pNotifyParent......);
void SetNotifyParent(CProgressBarReceiver *pNotifyParent);
};
class CMyDocument : public CDocument, public CProgressBarReceiver
{
virtual void OnCancel() { CloseDialog(); KillThread();
CloseDocument(); }
};
I suppose it's more elegant, but my personal preference because I value
terseness and ease of use is not to do it this way. Any caller can easily
create a static callback function, but forcing the caller to derive from
your class just to receive progress messages is a philosophy that leads to
massive class hierarchies that are not easily grok'd.
-- David
What about addressing the problem of having to have a static method. You
won't be able to distinguish between different instances of the class.
Sometime the easy way might not fulfill every need, that's what I was
pointing out.
AliR.
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