Re: MFC user-defined message vs. ptr to Wnd
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:07:34 -0400, Joseph M. Newcomer
<newcomer@flounder.com> wrote:
The problem with knowing that it is the grandparent falls apart if the window then gets
embedded somewhere else. As already pointed out, the advantage of using messages is that
you don't have to know ANYTHING about the type of the window, or include its header file,
since it is just a CWnd*. You lose type checking (and yes, I got nuked by this a couple
weeks ago; use dynamic_cast for more correct programming!). Its a set of engineering
tradeoffs. I prefer to not introduce gratuitous dependencies by including header files of
random classes and knowing their internal structure. I sometimes create a "routing
object" which has the CWnd * of the window I want to send something to, and include the
"routing object" so I don't care what the parent relationship is; I just send the message
to the window in the routing object, which is supplied to me.
joe
Taking that idea to its OOP conclusion, you would pass a reference (or even
a pointer) to an interface to the ctor of the child window. It's just the
Observer pattern. As I mentioned in my other message, the really unique
thing about Windows messages is their ability to be used with PostMessage.
Their big downside is the absence of type safety.
--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP
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