Re: THtml for interface abstract base class

From: Rutger van der Eijk (r36@nikhef.nl)
Date: Fri Oct 30 1998 - 10:43:38 MET


Hi,

Forget my last message. I already found out again that 'the defines' don't
add any datamembers. Only TObject does.

I do think though that THtml should not crash on these cases (at the
minimum just an error message reporting that the doc for OTABCDerived
can't be created because no RTTI for OTABC availiable, or something)

Rutger

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 22:11:01 +0100 (MET)
From: Rutger van der Eijk <r36@sigyn.nikhef.nl>
To: ROOT mailing list <roottalk@root.cern.ch>
Subject: THtml for interface abstract base class

Hi ROOTers,

I'm trying to use documentation generator class THtml to generate doc. The
code generation crashes on a class which is derived from an abstract base
class (i.e. no datamebers).

simple example:
-------
class OTABC {
private:

public:
  // Destructor
  virtual ~OTABC();

  // ...
  virtual void SetXXX(UInt_t xxx) = 0;
  virtual UInt_t GetXXX() const = 0;
};


and

class OTABCDerived: public OTABC {
private:
  // OTABC member
  UInt_t fxxx; // xxx datamember

public:
  // Constructor & destructor
  OTABCDerived();
  virtual ~OTABCDerived();

  // OTABC members
  virtual void SetXXX(UInt_t xxx);
  virtual UInt_t GetXXX() const;
  
  // other members


  ClassDef(OTABCDerived, 1) // OTABCDerived class
};


gives a crash if trying to make doc for OTABCDerived. I don't want to use
the ClassDef for OTABC because (as far as I know) this gives OTABC
datamembers which an ABC should not have. 

How to proceed?

Rutger van der Eijk



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