template of class function?

[Gernot Frisch]

Hi,
I have a class that has a funtion "DrawMe".
Now, I want to make this function work on 2 different argument types
that provide all the same methods:

class ASCIIDraw
{
MoveTo();
DrawTo();
};

class GDIDraw
{
MoveTo();
DrawTo();
};

class MyDraw
{
template<class T>DoDraw(T& DrawObject);
};

(How) can I do this?
--
-Gernot
int main(int argc, char** argv) {printf
("%silto%c%cf%cgl%ssic%ccom%c", "ma", 58, 'g', 64, "ba", 46, 10);}

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[Moonlit]

Hi,

"Gernot Frisch" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
news:2q************@uni-berlin.de...

Hi,
I have a class that has a funtion "DrawMe".
Now, I want to make this function work on 2 different argument types that
provide all the same methods:

class ASCIIDraw
{
MoveTo();
DrawTo();
};

class GDIDraw
{
MoveTo();
DrawTo();
};

class MyDraw
{
template<class T>DoDraw(T& DrawObject);
};

(How) can I do this?


As far as I can see your code already does that. Do you mean this?
//---------------------------------------Code----------------------------
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <memory.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class ASCIIDraw
{
public:
void MoveTo(){};
void DrawTo(){ cout << "Hello" << endl; };
};

class GDIDraw
{
public:
void MoveTo(){};
void DrawTo(){};
};

class MyDraw
{
public:
template<class T>void DoDraw(T& DrawObject)
{
DrawObject.MoveTo();
DrawObject.DrawTo();

}
};

int main()
{

MyDraw Draw;

ASCIIDraw ASCII;
Draw.DoDraw( ASCII );

return 0;
}
//------------------------------------------------End
Code--------------------------------
--
-Gernot
int main(int argc, char** argv) {printf ("%silto%c%cf%cgl%ssic%ccom%c",
"ma", 58, 'g', 64, "ba", 46, 10);}

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[Moonlit]

Hi,

Forgot to say that if you can come up with a generic interface for bot
classes you might create a generic Draw class (with MoveTo and DrawTo as
(pure) virtual functions and derive the ASCII and GDIDraw classes from them.
Move the DoDraw class to the base class and just call DoDraw on the object.

Regards, Ron AF Greve.
"Moonlit" <news moonlit xs4all nl> wrote in message
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Hi,

"Gernot Frisch" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
news:2q************@uni-berlin.de...

Hi,
I have a class that has a funtion "DrawMe".
Now, I want to make this function work on 2 different argument types that
provide all the same methods:

class ASCIIDraw
{
MoveTo();
DrawTo();
};

class GDIDraw
{
MoveTo();
DrawTo();
};

class MyDraw
{
template<class T>DoDraw(T& DrawObject);
};

(How) can I do this?

As far as I can see your code already does that. Do you mean this?
//---------------------------------------Code----------------------------
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <memory.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class ASCIIDraw
{
public:
void MoveTo(){};
void DrawTo(){ cout << "Hello" << endl; };
};

class GDIDraw
{
public:
void MoveTo(){};
void DrawTo(){};
};

class MyDraw
{
public:
template<class T>void DoDraw(T& DrawObject)
{
DrawObject.MoveTo();
DrawObject.DrawTo();

}
};

int main()
{

MyDraw Draw;

ASCIIDraw ASCII;
Draw.DoDraw( ASCII );

return 0;
}
//------------------------------------------------End
Code--------------------------------

--
-Gernot
int main(int argc, char** argv) {printf ("%silto%c%cf%cgl%ssic%ccom%c",
"ma", 58, 'g', 64, "ba", 46, 10);}

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[Gernot Frisch]

> Forgot to say that if you can come up with a generic interface for

bot classes you might create a generic Draw class (with MoveTo and
DrawTo as (pure) virtual functions and derive the ASCII and GDIDraw
classes from them. Move the DoDraw class to the base class and just
call DoDraw on the object.

So, I get:

class base
{
virtual void MoveTo(int, int)=0;
void DrawChild(const base& d2);
};

class Draw2:public base
{
void MoveTo(int x, int y);
void DrawChild(const Draw2& d2); // or const base& ...
reinterpret_cast<d2> ...
};

[JKop]

Gernot Frisch posted:

Hi,
I have a class that has a funtion "DrawMe".
Now, I want to make this function work on 2 different argument types
that provide all the same methods:

class ASCIIDraw
{
MoveTo();
DrawTo();
};

class GDIDraw
{
MoveTo();
DrawTo();
};

class MyDraw
{
template<class T>DoDraw(T& DrawObject);
};

(How) can I do this?

Geez, get some inheritence in there:

class DrawObject
{
public:

virtual void MoveTo() = 0;
virtual void DrawTo() = 0;
};

class ASCIIDraw : public DrawObject
{
public:

virtual void MoveTo()
{
//code goes here
}

virtual void DrawTo()
{
//code goes here
}
};

class GDIDraw : public DrawObject
{
public:

virtual void MoveTo()
{
//code goes here
}

virtual void DrawTo()
{
//code goes here
}
};
void SomeFunc(DrawObject& draw_object)
{
draw_object.DrawTo();
}

int main()
{
ASCIIDraw a;
GDIDraw b;

SomeFunc(a);
SomeFunc(b);
}
Hope that helps,

-JKop

[Moonlit]

Hi,

"Gernot Frisch" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
news:2q************@uni-berlin.de...

Forgot to say that if you can come up with a generic interface for bot
classes you might create a generic Draw class (with MoveTo and DrawTo as
(pure) virtual functions and derive the ASCII and GDIDraw classes from
them. Move the DoDraw class to the base class and just call DoDraw on the
object.
So, I get:

class base
{
virtual void MoveTo(int, int)=0;
void DrawChild(const base& d2);
};

class Draw2:public base
{
void MoveTo(int x, int y);
void DrawChild(const Draw2& d2); // or const base& ...
reinterpret_cast<d2> ...
};

Close but not good enough ;-) , but I see JKop already gave the answer.

Regards