Re: [GD-General] Multiple Inheritance and RTTI

[Thatcher U. <tu...@tu...>]

On Feb 06, 2003 at 10:31 -0000, Gareth Lewin wrote:
> COM basics are extremly simple to implement.
> 
> You really need a standard way to implement a "Give me this interface"
> function. (QueryIterface)
> A standard way of iding interfaces (GUIDs or FourCCs or whatever)
> And a base interface that concreate class implements.  (IUnknown)

To try to cut through the terminology a little:

COM == RTTI

    QueryInterface == dynamic_cast
    GUID == typeid
    IUnknown == any polymorphic class

Obviously the details vary.

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Thatcher Ulrich
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