RE: Can someone explain how these operator is suppose to work

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Date:
Wed, 23 May 2007 01:24:00 -0700
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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??

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