Hey,
This may seem a bit of an odd question, but I'm trying to store a list of templates of different types, I don't know if this is possible or not, but all the efforts I've made so far have failed miserably.
I tried a DIY list but I kept getting compilation errors about being unable to specialize template functions, and the STL list errors because the use of a class template requires an argument list.
The reason I'm doing such a thing is to store variables the user can alter at runtime, for instance there may be an integer, character string and floating point variable and the user can go:
myheight 5.5
myname "fred"
etc...
I was storing them in a list by registering them:
RegisterVariable(&userheight, "myheight");
For each variable I was storing the name so it would be possible for me to look it up when the user tries to alter it, going something like
proper_variable = FindVariable(argument[0]); // would be a string like "myheight", indicating the name to edit
then just after
proper_variable->SetValue(argument[1]);
Is there any kind of mechanism to support what I'm trying to do, or if there's fundamental flaws in the design I'd appreciate ideas on a better way.
Thanks,
sdtm
PS:
Some more background, if you're interested.
I tried a derived class approach but this is a pain because you have to derive a new class for each type you want, and because the types you are setting / returning may be different you can't have the get/set functions in the base class (unless you return/pass by void * - but thats getting pretty messy).
