Subj : RTTI in C++
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "Jason Southwell" <jason@southwell.net>
Date : Wed Oct 08 2003 12:06 pm

First some background...

I'm an experienced Delphi developer and haven't dug into C++ in about 7
years.  At the time, I was just getting into C++ from C...  Then I
found Delphi and haven't touched C++ much since.

So that gives you an idea of my experience level.

In Delphi, we have complete access to classes and their properties,
methods and events via RTTI.  I'd like to do the same with C++.

For example, if I have the string

"+TmyClass:filename='test.html':active=true"

I would like to be able to parse that out at runtime to do the
following.

1. Create an instance of TMyClass. 
2. Assign the property filename with the value 'test.html'
3. Assign the property active with the value true.

In Delphi this is easy using the functions in TypInfo.pas.

Can anyone give me pointers on how I might do this in C++?  

-- 
Jason Southwell
President and CEO
Arcana Technologies

www.arcanatech.com

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