Function pointers with classes

I have a structure that looks like this:

Code:

struct STRUCTURE
{
  bool (*ptFunction)(void);
};

So it has a pointer to a function in it (if that * is on the wrong side don't worry about it).

I also have a class like this:

Code:

class CONNECTION
{
  public:
    bool Assign();
    bool MyPtrFunction(void);
};

I then want to do this:

Code:

bool CONNECTION::Assign()
{
  STRUCTURE myStruct;
  myStruct.ptFunction = MyPtrFunction;
}

But I can't do that because im assigning a
bool (__stdcall CONNECTION::*) (void) to a
bool (__stdcall *)(void).

Is there any possible way to assign the CONNECTION::MyPtrFunction to ptFunction? Any help is much appreciated!

I think CONNECTION::MyPtrFunction must be static.

Thanks jlou, that seems to have removed the errors from assigning the functions. But now I get this:

error C2228: left of '.length' must have class/struct/union type

for the line:

Code:

if (*lpdwSize < PostData.length())

Where PostData is a string that belongs to the CONNECTION class. What does it mean? I changed the declaration for the functions in the class to
static bool MyPtrFunction(void)

If the function is static, you can't access any non-static members or methods of the class, since there is no "instance" of the class to use.

It sounds like the static thing is not what you wanted, since you want to actually be able to run the function in the context of its instance. If that's true, then I can't really help you. I was ablle to get your initial example to build without making the CONNECTION::MyPtrFunction static, (I declared the function pointer in STRUCTURE as bool (CONNECTION::*ptFunction)(void);) but then I couldn't call the function from myStruct. Maybe it is possible but I personally don't know how.

Yeh unfortunatley I can't do that, the STRUCTURE struct is something I can't actually change (its actually an EXTENSION_CRONTROL_BLOCK). I guess I'll have to make the functions global functions.... unless anyone knows how I can do this?

If your trying to get a function pointer to a member function of an object, you cant do it directly. I asked about this several months back, and the end result is code something like this (i removed my specific code and just left the concept):

Code:

class Object {
	static void staticmemberfunction(void *param) 
	{
		Object *thisObject = static_cast<Object*>(param);
		thisObject->nonstaticfunction();
	}
	void nonstaticfunction(void);
};

Your basically using a static member function to access a nonstatic one, so instead of making a global function, this would be easier. You determine which instance of the object gets the non-static function call by passing it the "this" pointer from inside itself, or a pointer to it from outside. This way it can call the function in itself, or another instances of Object. Btw if i screwed up some part of this explaniation, or there is a better way, im sorry, im looking at code from months ago doing this from memory. Good luck.