Help me with a solution for what could be solutioned by virtual static fields... in FPC
- by Gregory Smith
Hi
I'm doing an event manager in Freepascal
Each event is an object type TEvent (=object), each kind of event must derive from this class.
Events are differentiated by an integer identificator, assigned dynamically.
The problem is that i want to retrieve the event id of an instance, and i can't do it well.
All instances of a class(object) have a unique id = so it should be static field.
All classes have a diferent id = so it should be virtual.
Event ids are assignated in run time, and can change = so it can't be a simple method
In sum, I can't put all this together.
I'm looking for an elegant solution, i don't want to write a hardcoded table, actualizing it in every constructor... etc, i'd prefer something taking advantage of the polymorphism
Can anyone help me with another technical or design solution?
I remark I don't want to use class instead of object construct.(property doesn't work on objects? :(
