PocketMatrix

Hi theres probably an obvious answer to this so please excuse my ignorance


In the cross platform example given in 3.5c is there a good reason why CCommonApplication cant inherit from CGapiApplication rather then have it passed in as a pointer?

The reason is that most of the stuff in CGapiApplication is platform-independent and needs to be kept separately (such as image loading).

Ok, ive not really been exploring the intricacies of the cross platform approach as ive only been developing on the desktop so far,

But if CommonApplication was derived from myapplication, you could still call CMyApplication::InitInstance()first from CCommonApplication::InitInstance()


If you don’t implement CreateSysMemSurfaces in CCommonApplication it will still call the platform dependent function in CMyApplication,

And doing this will save the pointer reference in all of the callbacks as this will be sorted out in the vtable.



Im not saying this is a better way to do it as im sure ive probably missed something important (as always, till it bytes you on the ass!) im just interested in your opinion of the validity of this approach