Re: [Boost-users] Dynamically creating classed by name?

boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org wrote:

Is there any way that, using Boost, you can dynamically create classes by name, similar to the MFC RUNTIME_CLASS macros? I was hoping that the boost::serialize libs might be able to help with this.

For example, I want to be able to do something like:

CMyClass* pClass = CREATE_CLASS_BY_NAME("CMyClass");

Can Boost help me to achieve this?

Is there any problem in using a conventional Factory solution and writing the macro yourself? I would suggest using the factory template introduced by Andrei Alexandrescu in his book "Modern C++ Design" and available with the Loki lib. See 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/loki-lib/' for details. Oliver