componentMovedOrResized for multiple components

General JUCE discussion
1

Hi - I have a parent class that listens for when three different child objects are moved / dragged. I know the componentMovedOrResized gives me the &component, but how do I test this to see what one was moved?

 

Thanks.

2

Anyone have any advice?

3

Not sure I understand the question.. It tells you which component it was, so isn't that what you need to know?

4

Let me see if I can give some details with code. If I try to compare the component to one of my objects that can be moved or resized it gives me an error: "invalid operands to binary expression (Juce::Component and objectName)". For example, something like this:

 

void Looper::componentMovedOrResized (Component& component, bool wasMoved, bool /*wasResized*/)
{

    if(component == loopMark1)
    {
         //stuff
    }

    else if(component == loopMark2)
    {
        //other stuff
    }

 

The question is, since this doesn't work, am I using it wrong or is there some other way I should be testing which object was moved?

5

Try: 

if (&component == &loopMark1)

{

...

}

You'll need to read a bit on pointers and inheritance at some point ;-)   But you can't directly compare a base class (Component) with something more complex derived from it (e.g. loopMark) (unless you've got a specially crafted implementation of operator== anyway).

But as Components can't be copied, you can guaranteed that by comparing the addresses you know if you are looking at the right object. 

The reduction of this is: 


class Base
{
  /* Some stuff. */
};
class Derived
  :
public Base
{
  /* Some other stuff. */
};
void functionOkay()
{
  Base * b; 
  Derived * d; 
  bool result = b == d; 
}
void functionErrorAboutBinaryExpression()
{
  Base b; 
  Derived d; 
  bool result = b == d;  // error here. 
}

If that helps ..

6

damn, my pointers & inheritance stupidity, I need to scratch up on c++.

 

That works, thanks!