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gunvulture
Junior Member

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Posted - Jun 01 2006 :  1:57:26 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I use #defines to provide easy access to systems in my engine. However, autocomplete flat out doesn't work on them. Here is an example:

template <typename T>
class Singleton
{
<snip>
static T& GetSingletonRef(Context* i_pForFutureUse) { return *s_pSingleton; }
};

class EngineManager : public Singleton<EngineManager>
{ <snip> };

#define g_EngineManager EngineManager::GetSingletonRef(0)

Doing "g_EngineManager." shows no members at all.

Doing "g_EngineManager.SomeFunction(" shows a tooltip saying "#define g_EngineManager EngineManager::GetSingletonRef(0)"

Using VAX build 1445.

feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19303 Posts
Posted - Jun 01 2006 :  5:47:56 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
unfortunately VA does not try to support this sort of thing. it is possible to do some very strange things with macro's, so it is easy to imagine just how complicated this would quickly become.

see supports answer here:
http://forum.wholetomato.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4253
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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swinefeaster
Tomato Guru

310 Posts
Posted - Jun 02 2006 :  5:23:01 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This is also considered bad programming practice by most developers... you should use polymorphism for this.

Regards,

swine
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gunvulture
Junior Member

11 Posts
Posted - Jun 04 2006 :  5:35:53 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Ah that appears to be me last time as well. I forgot I already mentioned it, heh.
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