[LAD] Inter thread Communication: Design Approach

[David Robillard]

On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 18:37 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 02:18:25PM -0400, David Robillard wrote:
>  
> > If you're going to go with the inheritance route anyway, just use a
> > virtual ev->execute() method so the code for all events doesn't have to
> > be in the same place. Assuming you'll have enough that this is actually
> > a benefit anyway...
> 
> That's assuming that the event's virtual execute() has access to
> all it needs. In all cases I've encountered that is not the case:
> the event triggers something in the context where it is received
> and processing it requires access to that context's data. 
> It's a problem for which I don't know a clean C++ solution.

Sure, it would almost certainly not be a method with no parameters, most
likely you would pass some context object as a parameter which contains
all the necessary things.

-dr