Hajo Kirchhoff wrote:
Edward Diener wrote:
Yes, I am interested in it. It appears to provide a way to do reflection on a limited basis by using a name to create an object. Hajo Kirchhoff in his LitWindow library also provides a way to do reflection based on names although I do not believe he has the ability which you have to dynamically create objects based on names. The general ideas that you both use,
Yes I do. The Lit Window Library allows this.
// get the type definition for the class foobar prop_t aType = get_prop_type_by_name("foobar");
// create an object on the heap accessor a = create_object(aType);
// access member variable foobar.m_string cout << a.get_aggregate()["m_string"] << endl;
// cast the generic accessor to a typed accessor typed_accessor<foobar> fbar=dynamic_cast_accessor<foobar>(a); assert(fbar.is_valid());
// copy the contents of the object to a different object foobar someObject; fbar.get(someObject);
// destroy the object destroy_object(a); // a.destroy() is an alternative way of destroying it
BTW, the base part of the lit window library does not contain any GUI code at all and is meant to be used independently for any kind of generic programming.
any general mechanism which provides reflection capabilities, where a name can be used to find out type information or variable information at run-time, or where an object can be created based on its name at run-time.
http://www.litwindow.com/library does this. The documentation is certainly not yet up to par, but the functionality is there and is pretty mature already, except for container support. This is still pretty spotty for any container other than stl::vector.
Regards and I'd love to hear any comments on my code.
I am interested in the data accessor part of your library from the end-user perspective so I would encourage you to document that fully. I understand that you are using that functionality for your GUI library but, as you have discovered through packaging it as a base library, it holds general interest and functionality outside of its use in your GUI environment for those who are interested in a run-time reflection mechanism.