Get the address of a member function

[AlecJames]

Hi

I have a static structure with a member int (*repfn)(int state, const char * reply,int tout) – a function pointer.

I want to initialise the pointer within my dialog constructor to point to a member function of my dialog class.
Like this:

 CEnterDiagnostics::CEnterDiagnostics() : CPropertyPage(CEnterDiagnostics::IDD)
{
	//{{AFX_DATA_INIT(CEnterDiagnostics)
	//}}AFX_DATA_INIT

	StateMachine[0].repfn = OpenReply;
}

Where OpenReply is a member of my class CEnterDiagnostics and declared as

int OpenReply(int state, const char *pReply,int tout);

But it doesn’t work I get a compiler error

C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'int (__thiscall CEnterDiagnostics::*)(int,const char *,int)' to 'int (__cdecl *)(int,const char *,int)'

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

Alec

[jfaust]

If it's static, try &OpenReply.

Jeff

[AlecJames]

OpenReply was not static, I tried making it static and it compiles OK.

Can you only get a pointer to a static member function?

Thanks for the help.

[jfaust]

For function pointers, I use boost::function which is freely available. You can find it at http://www.boost.org/, along with a lot of other template classes.

// define functor
boost::function<int, CEnterDiagnostics*, int, const char*, int> repfn;
...

// assign functor
repfn = &OpenReply;
....

// call functor
repfn(enterDiagnosticsPtr, state, reply, tout);

Used in conjunction with boost::bind, this is very powerful.

Jeff

[Yves M]

Originally posted by AlecJames
OpenReply was not static, I tried making it static and it compiles OK.

Can you only get a pointer to a static member function?

Thanks for the help.

It's obvious that it won't work like you tried it with a non-static member function. These always recieve as a minimum the pointer to the instance of the object as a parameter, so you'd have to add that to your function declaration somehow.

But then again, this might not make sense. How does the code which calls repfn know which instance of CEnterDiagnostics to refer to ?

I'm really wondering how boost achieves this...

[edit : ups, I just realized that the answer to this question was already provided by Jeff

repfn(enterDiagnosticsPtr, state, reply, tout);

So the first parameter is the pointer to the instance of CEnterDiagnostics ]

[peterchen]

To declare a pointer to a member function:

struct cfoo {
int bar(int x);
};

int (cfoo::*pFooBar)(int) = cfoo::bar;

// to call, you need an actual instance -
foo.*pFooBar(17);
pFoo->*pFooBar(42);


of course, functors are much more expressive and powerful... ;-)