[parameter] Extendable named parameter keywords
Hi, I'm creating a GUI library (still in pre-alpha) using the named parameter library for the create function. It has a interface like this: wnd_lock<frame_window> w = create<frame_window>( _driver = gtk , _pos = std::make_pair(20, 20), _size = std::make_pair(600, 400) ); Until here everything is alright. But, for some controls, we must have extended keywords: wnd_lock<text_box> text = create<text_box>( _parent = w, _pos = std::make_pair(0, 0) , text_box::_multi_line = true ); Is it achievable? Thanks in advance, -- Felipe Magno de Almeida
on Thu Oct 11 2007, "Felipe Magno de Almeida" <felipe.m.almeida-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
I'm creating a GUI library (still in pre-alpha) using the named parameter library for the create function. It has a interface like this:
wnd_lock<frame_window> w = create<frame_window>( _driver = gtk , _pos = std::make_pair(20, 20), _size = std::make_pair(600, 400) );
Until here everything is alright. But, for some controls, we must have extended keywords:
wnd_lock<text_box> text = create<text_box>( _parent = w, _pos = std::make_pair(0, 0) , text_box::_multi_line = true );
Is it achievable?
Sorry, it isn't clear from the above what you mean by "extended keywords?" Is it just the use of text_box:: qualification on _multi_line? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
On 10/16/07, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
on Thu Oct 11 2007, "Felipe Magno de Almeida" <felipe.m.almeida-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
I'm creating a GUI library (still in pre-alpha) using the named parameter library for the create function. It has a interface like this:
wnd_lock<frame_window> w = create<frame_window>( _driver = gtk , _pos = std::make_pair(20, 20), _size = std::make_pair(600, 400) );
Until here everything is alright. But, for some controls, we must have extended keywords:
wnd_lock<text_box> text = create<text_box>( _parent = w, _pos = std::make_pair(0, 0) , text_box::_multi_line = true );
Is it achievable?
Sorry, it isn't clear from the above what you mean by "extended keywords?" Is it just the use of text_box:: qualification on _multi_line?
No, I would like that my function would accept an unbound number of keyword types. _multi_line for example could be implemented by a third-party, and I would like it to work with create<> function anyway.
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
Thanks, -- Felipe Magno de Almeida
On 10/16/07, Felipe Magno de Almeida <felipe.m.almeida@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/16/07, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
I probably wasn't clear enough. I'll try better now. [snip]
wnd_lock<text_box> text = create<text_box>( _parent = w, _pos = std::make_pair(0, 0) , text_box::_multi_line = true );
Is it achievable?
Sorry, it isn't clear from the above what you mean by "extended keywords?" Is it just the use of text_box:: qualification on _multi_line?
No, I would like that my function would accept an unbound number of keyword types. _multi_line for example could be implemented by a third-party, and I would like it to work with create<> function anyway.
What I want is a way for users to define keywords which would work with my function. I have implemented something more or less like that, but it is more like another, yet very simple, named parameter concept. But it relies on passing a specific object type (that contains a boost::any). I would like that keywords and overload resolution could be implemented seperately and used inside that function. The function, being a template, could then adapt to what it received as arguments and parameters. It was like was defining that certain keywords would be obligatory, but all others (known or not known by the function) are optional. These keywords types could then implement a concept which would allow the named parameter function to use those parameters and arguments. Hope it is clearer now. So, is it possible with Boost.Parameter library? PS: What I have substituting this is having types that return an object of type 'expression'. Then through PP magic I have all numbers of parameters receiving expression objects and named parameters. But this way I can't template the whole function and leave duck-typing to after the create instantiation. So I have something like this: #define GUI_arguments(z, n, data) A ## n const& arg ## n #define GUI_create_extension_args(z, n, data) extension const& BOOST_PP_CAT(ext, n) #define GUI_extension_push_backs(z, n, data) extensions.push_back(BOOST_PP_CAT(ext, n)); template <typename impl, BOOST_PP_ENUM_PARAMS(BOOST_PP_ADD(BOOST_PP_ITERATION(),1), typename A)> wnd_lock<impl> create(BOOST_PP_ENUM(BOOST_PP_ADD(BOOST_PP_ITERATION(),1), GUI_arguments, ~) #if BOOST_PP_ITERATION_1 != 0 , BOOST_PP_ENUM(BOOST_PP_ITERATION_1, GUI_create_extension_args, ~) #endif , typename create_parameter::match<BOOST_PP_ENUM_PARAMS(BOOST_PP_ADD(BOOST_PP_ITERATION(),1), A)>::type const& args = create_parameter()) { std::vector<extension> extensions; BOOST_PP_REPEAT(BOOST_PP_ITERATION_1, GUI_extension_push_backs, ~) return create_impl<impl>(args(BOOST_PP_ENUM_PARAMS(BOOST_PP_ADD(BOOST_PP_ITERATION(),1), arg)), extensions); } Where it iterates two times to have two counters. But I can't mix defined keywords and extension keywords this way.
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
Thanks in advance, -- Felipe Magno de Almeida
Has anybody read this? On 10/16/07, Felipe Magno de Almeida <felipe.m.almeida@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/16/07, Felipe Magno de Almeida <felipe.m.almeida@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/16/07, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
I probably wasn't clear enough. I'll try better now.
[snip]
wnd_lock<text_box> text = create<text_box>( _parent = w, _pos = std::make_pair(0, 0) , text_box::_multi_line = true );
Is it achievable?
Sorry, it isn't clear from the above what you mean by "extended keywords?" Is it just the use of text_box:: qualification on _multi_line?
No, I would like that my function would accept an unbound number of keyword types. _multi_line for example could be implemented by a third-party, and I would like it to work with create<> function anyway.
What I want is a way for users to define keywords which would work with my function. I have implemented something more or less like that, but it is more like another, yet very simple, named parameter concept. But it relies on passing a specific object type (that contains a boost::any). I would like that keywords and overload resolution could be implemented seperately and used inside that function. The function, being a template, could then adapt to what it received as arguments and parameters. It was like was defining that certain keywords would be obligatory, but all others (known or not known by the function) are optional. These keywords types could then implement a concept which would allow the named parameter function to use those parameters and arguments. Hope it is clearer now. So, is it possible with Boost.Parameter library?
PS: What I have substituting this is having types that return an object of type 'expression'. Then through PP magic I have all numbers of parameters receiving expression objects and named parameters. But this way I can't template the whole function and leave duck-typing to after the create instantiation.
So I have something like this:
#define GUI_arguments(z, n, data) A ## n const& arg ## n #define GUI_create_extension_args(z, n, data) extension const& BOOST_PP_CAT(ext, n) #define GUI_extension_push_backs(z, n, data) extensions.push_back(BOOST_PP_CAT(ext, n));
template <typename impl, BOOST_PP_ENUM_PARAMS(BOOST_PP_ADD(BOOST_PP_ITERATION(),1), typename A)> wnd_lock<impl> create(BOOST_PP_ENUM(BOOST_PP_ADD(BOOST_PP_ITERATION(),1), GUI_arguments, ~)
#if BOOST_PP_ITERATION_1 != 0 , BOOST_PP_ENUM(BOOST_PP_ITERATION_1, GUI_create_extension_args, ~) #endif
, typename create_parameter::match<BOOST_PP_ENUM_PARAMS(BOOST_PP_ADD(BOOST_PP_ITERATION(),1), A)>::type const& args = create_parameter()) { std::vector<extension> extensions;
BOOST_PP_REPEAT(BOOST_PP_ITERATION_1, GUI_extension_push_backs, ~)
return create_impl<impl>(args(BOOST_PP_ENUM_PARAMS(BOOST_PP_ADD(BOOST_PP_ITERATION(),1), arg)), extensions); }
Where it iterates two times to have two counters. But I can't mix defined keywords and extension keywords this way.
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
Thanks in advance, -- Felipe Magno de Almeida
-- Felipe Magno de Almeida
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