[gameprogrammer] Re: detecting class type at runtime
- From: Matthew Weigel <unique@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:59:01 -0500
On 18.04.2012 08:36, Jonathan Dearborn wrote:
C++ does not have true reflection capabilities. However, you can use
RTTI
in the form of dynamic_cast:
It doesn't have true reflection, but you can go a little further than
dynamic cast and actually use the typeid operator.
A basic example of getting at the name of a class is here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fyf39xec.aspx
(Note that for some things, you can use type_info::hash_code to be a
little more efficient)
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Matthew Weigel
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