On 27 Mar 2006 05:18:26 -0800, "Alex" <aleksandra.cerekovic@gmail.com>
wrote:
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>
>Curently, I am programing two Thread classes that are each other
>members, class Communicator and Maintainer. These are their headers:
>
>.... class Maintainer: public JThread, Object {
>
> private:
>
> Communicator* parent;
> bool isRunning;
> bool shouldContinue;
> int timeout;
>
> public:
>
> Maintainer(Communicator* com);
> void run();
>
>
> };
>
>
>...
>
> class Communicator: public JThread{
>
> Maintainer* maintainer;
> JString configuration;
>
> ...
>
> public:
>
> Communicator(JString name, JString cnsHost, int cnsPort);
> bool init();
> bool connectToServer();
> ...
>
>
> };
>
>(JThread and JString are members of library that is included in this
>project.)
>
>I really need your advice about this, because output gives be some
>strange errors and I am not really sure is this construction allowed
>like this.
>Maintainer object is created in init() function in object Communicator
>and it receives object Communicator in constructor and keeps it as its
>member,
>
>maintainer = new Maintainer(this);
>
>because Maintainer later checks some parameters of class Communicator
>in run() function.
>So Maintainer is member of Communicator and in same time, Communicator
>ih member of Maintaner. It is really nessesary.
>
>Is this allowed?[/color]
Yes. However, you need a forward declaration before class declaration
of Maintainer:
class Communicator;
class Maintainer: public JThread, Object {
private:
Communicator* parent;
// etc.
Then it should work OK. As long as you have a pointer or reference
member, you can do a forward declaration like this.
--
Bob Hairgrove
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