#10 Generalization in Get/Set

[Anonymous]

There should be a generic {get,set}value scheme that applies to every kind of type a wxPGProperty holds. Primitite types are supported via the wxVariant and an extension mechanism handles the rest in different ways (some properties have methods to get/set specific values, others connect their values with pointers to dynamic classes etc.). It is somewhat cumbersome to use custom if-then-else stmts or visiting mechanisms to handle every different case of property.

[Jaakko Salli]

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For the stable branch (1.2.x), I won't change this, and in the development branch (1.3.x), properties already use wxVariant as their internal "generic" value. That is, wxPGProperty::GetValue() returns wxVariant, and that is all you need. There are macros to automatically generate necessary wxVariantData class for arbitrary values, see the docs main page for samples.

Or maybe I did not fully understand what you had in mind?