Creating and Copying Objects

Detailed Description

This group contains methods for creating objects at run time, as well as creating copies of an object.

Functions
	GlgObjectC (GlgObjectC &object, GlgCloneType clone_type=GLG_FULL_CLONE)
	Copy constructor, Extended API: Creates a copy of the object. More...
	GlgObjectC (GlgObjectType type, char *name=NULL, GlgAnyType data1=NULL, GlgAnyType data2=NULL, GlgAnyType data3=NULL, GlgAnyType data4=NULL)
	Constructor, Extended API: Creates a new object of the specified type. More...
void	Copy (GlgCloneType clone_type=GLG_FULL_CLONE)
	Creates a copy of an object. More...
void	Create (GlgObjectType type, char *name=NULL, GlgAnyType data1=NULL, GlgAnyType data2=NULL, GlgAnyType data3=NULL, GlgAnyType data4=NULL)
	Creates a new GLG object of the specified type. More...

Function Documentation

GlgObjectC() [1/2]

GlgObjectC	(	GlgObjectC &	object,
		GlgCloneType	clone_type = GLG_FULL_CLONE
	)

Copy constructor, Extended API: Creates a copy of the object.

Parameters

object	The object to be cloned.
clone_type	The type of cloning to perform, GLG_FULL_CLONE by default.

This is a wrapper for GlgCloneObject, see GlgCloneObject for more information.

GlgObjectC() [2/2]

GlgObjectC	(	GlgObjectType	type,
		char *	name = NULL,
		GlgAnyType	data1 = NULL,
		GlgAnyType	data2 = NULL,
		GlgAnyType	data3 = NULL,
		GlgAnyType	data4 = NULL
	)

Constructor, Extended API: Creates a new object of the specified type.

This is a wrapper for GlgCreateObject, which receives the method's parameters. See GlgCreateObject for parameter descriptions.

Parameters

type	See GlgCreateObject for parameter description.
name	See GlgCreateObject for parameter description.
data1	See GlgCreateObject for parameter description.
data2	See GlgCreateObject for parameter description.
data3	See GlgCreateObject for parameter description.
data4	See GlgCreateObject for parameter description.

Copy()

void Copy

(

GlgCloneType

clone_type = GLG_FULL_CLONE

)

Creates a copy of an object.

Replaces the currently stored object with a copy of it.

Parameters

clone_type

The type of cloning to perform, GLG_FULL_CLONE by default.

This is a wrapper for GlgCloneObject, see GlgCloneObject for more information.

Create()

void Create	(	GlgObjectType	type,
		char *	name = NULL,
		GlgAnyType	data1 = NULL,
		GlgAnyType	data2 = NULL,
		GlgAnyType	data3 = NULL,
		GlgAnyType	data4 = NULL
	)

Creates a new GLG object of the specified type.

Replaces the previously stored object with a newly created object of the specified type. This is a wrapper for GlgCreateObject, which receives the method's parameters. See GlgCreateObject for parameter descriptions.

Parameters

type	See GlgCreateObject for parameter description.
name	See GlgCreateObject for parameter description.
data1	See GlgCreateObject for parameter description.
data2	See GlgCreateObject for parameter description.
data3	See GlgCreateObject for parameter description.
data4	See GlgCreateObject for parameter description.