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ObjectModelerSystem Interface CATIGenericFactory

Usage: you can freely reimplement this interface.

interface CATIGenericFactory

Interface to generically define factories.
Role: some commands like Edit/Properties or Tools/Options need to instanciate components programmed by applications. These applications has to provide a factory to enable the instantiation of a component. Usually, an object factory creates one and only one object type.
Note: There is no adapter to implement this interface, but some commands provide macro to generate such factories.
Usage: In order to create a factory, an application defines a new interface derived from CATIGenericFactory, implements this interface as an extension of a given component, and inserts apropriate declarations in .dic and .fact dictionnaries.

Method Index

o Create(CATUnicodeString&): Creates object and returns a pointer to a given interface.
o Support(CATUnicodeString&): Returns whether a given object type can be created using the factory.

Methods

o Create

public virtual Create( const iIntfName)

Creates object and returns a pointer to a given interface.
Note that the given interface is supposed to be implemented by the created object.

Parameters:

iIntfName: interface to handle the created object.

Returns:

pointer on the created object

o Support

public virtual Support( const iEditName)

Returns whether a given object type can be created using the factory.

Parameters:

iEditName: name of object.

Returns:

1 if the object type is supported.

This object is included in the file: CATIGenericFactory.h
If needed, your Imakefile.mk should include the module: ObjectModelerSystem