RE: Can someone explain how these operator is suppose to work
If I have an instance of CYObject called myObject how do I get the
myObject->m_pObject??
Through the second operator:
By doing myObject-> you already has got access to the m_pObject. So it
would be something like so;
myObject->xObjectFunc();
Through the first operator:
xObject & theDesiredObject = *myObject;
theDesiredObject.xObjectFunc();
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Arman
"Anders Eriksson" wrote:
Hello,
I'm using a 3:rd party library and in one class I have a protected variable
that I need to get.
I see that the creator of the class has two operators that seem to be the
trick to get the value but I don't get how to use the operators.
The class looks like this
Class CYObject
{
protected:
xObject* m_pObject;
// a number of other variables...
public:
xObject& operator*(){ return *m_pObject;}
xObject* operator->(){ return m_pObject;}
}
If I have an instance of CYObject called myObject how do I get the
myObject->m_pObject??
// Anders
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