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I wrote a paint program in MFC, and the mainframe class carried a pointer to a PaintTool class, which was a virtual base for all the different tools in the program. It had methods like Draw and Preview, and also methods such as OnLeftButtonUp, so that I could code the behaviour of the tool entirely in the tool, and MFC called them via the pointer to the base class instance.
Christian
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And you don't spend much time with the opposite sex working day and night, unless the pizza delivery person happens to be young, cute, single and female. I can assure you, I've consumed more than a programmer's allotment of pizza, and these conditions have never aligned. - Christopher Duncan - 18/04/2002
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Did you have something like this :-
class MainFrame
{
private:
PaintTool* m_pTool;
}
class PaintTool
{
...
};
class PaintTool1 : PaintTool
{
};
class PaintTool2 : PaintTool
{
};
Where does multiple inheritance figure in this?
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I don't see how you were asking about multiple inheritance, I thought you wanted to know about virtual base classes ?  Did you mean to emphasise the plural, i.e. more than one virtual base ?
Christian
The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little.
And you don't spend much time with the opposite sex working day and night, unless the pizza delivery person happens to be young, cute, single and female. I can assure you, I've consumed more than a programmer's allotment of pizza, and these conditions have never aligned. - Christopher Duncan - 18/04/2002
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My understanding of virtual base classes.
(Excuse the C# style synatx)
class A
{
int x;
}
class B : A
{
}
class C : A
{
}
class D : B, C
{
}
In case of D there will be two distinct copied of data for A as it is not virtual base.
D* pd = new D;
C* pc = (C*)pd;
pc->x = 10;
B* pb = (B*)pd;
//pc->x is not same as pb->x
pb->x = 11;
Now decalring like this
class B : virtual A
{
}
class C : virtual A
{
}
class D : B, C
{
}
In this case,
C* pc = (C*)pd;
pc->x = 10;
B* pb = (B*)pd;
//pc->x is same as pb->x
ASSERT(pc->x == pb->x)
This is what I always understood the purpose of virtual base classes. Am I wrong?
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A virtual base class has at least one pure virtual function
virtual void PaintNow(CDC & DC) =0;
Therefore it cannot be instantiated, it exists somewhat like an interface as I understand it in C# ( which is to say barely  ). Multiple inheritance is possible, but in no way implied by the fact that a class is a virtual base. It simply means the class itself cannot be instantiated, because it defines functions that derived classes MUST impliment ( which is it's function ).
Christian
The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little.
And you don't spend much time with the opposite sex working day and night, unless the pizza delivery person happens to be young, cute, single and female. I can assure you, I've consumed more than a programmer's allotment of pizza, and these conditions have never aligned. - Christopher Duncan - 18/04/2002
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Christian Graus wrote:
A virtual base class has at least one pure virtual function
I thought that was abstract class.
Don't know what is the emoticon for that feeling.
 
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You are right, that is an abstract base class.
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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That will create an abstract base class.
A virtual base class is used in multiple inheritance where you derive from two classes that derive from a common class like so:
class a;
class b : public a;
class c : public a;
class d: public b, public c;
Obviously this isn't valid C++ but hopefully you get the idea. In this case, you will get two intstances of the class a in class d. One that is a part of class b, the other that is a part of class c.
If you create a virtual base class with a, this will make it so that only one instance of a appears in the final class d, and this will prevent collisions because of the duplicate variables.
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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The only real-world example I know of useful virtual base classes is std::iostream which derives from ostream and istream. Each of those derive from (I think) ios virtually, so iostream ends up with only instance of ios in its inheritance tree.
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You are right, I totally forgot about it. Thanks
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Hi,
I tried to merge two projects together. The second (some OpenGL things) doesn't use precompiled headers at all, in those files I get errors when compiling.
Is the a precompiler pragma to disable use of precompiled headers for a file?
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#pragma no_pch
does NOT work to suppress precompiled header, hmm any idea?
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I case you're satisfied with a solution not involving pragmas, you can go to Project->Settings and tune the precompiled headers feature for each file separately (just click on the file alone instead of the whole project and search thru the tabs for it.)
Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo
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a solution with pragma would be very convenient
if someone has a solution or a workaround, let me know. thx
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Rama Krishna wrote:
look at #pragma hdrstop
and then?
#pragma hdrstop alone doesn't help, still the same compiler error
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In project settings, c++ tab, precompiled headers in the dropdown. Then select the files you don't want precompiled headers from the tree on the right, and pick "Not using precompiled headers".
Joel Lucsy (jjlucsy@ameritech.net)
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Hi:
I am stuck at converting a CString to a float number and actually determining if the string is a number. In other words I want to be able to tell that
"23" is 23
"23.554" is 23.554
"gdfgd" is invalid
"34.4353n" is invalid
"45.45.34" is invalid
etc.
Any thoughts????
Thank you
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I don't know about case 4, but here's a quick and dirty check:
bool convertToFloat
(CString& strNumber,
float& fValue)
{
float floatValue = 0.0;
if (sscanf (strNumber, "%f", &floatValue) == 1) {
fValue = floatValue;
return (true);
}
return (false);
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I have posted an article with some helper functions.
http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/helper_functions_01.asp
One of these is an IsDecimal. You can strip the IsDecimal function and use it sperately from the rest if you want. You should be able to combine IsDecimal and a call to atof to achieve what you want.
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You could loop through all the chars in the string and use the isdigit() function on each char...
There might be faster ways, just an idea...
- Anders
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_tcstod(...) and its non-unicode equivalent let u pass the number string to convert and a pointer to the char that ended the conversion ... when it returns examine the pointer to the char that ended the conversion and see if its a '\0' ... if it is then the string was all numeric else it wasn't
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Could you use the atof function.
If it returns 0.0 then it can't be converted to a nummer, otherwise it will return the number.
-Raffi
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Okay, what about if the value is "0.0"? 
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