Forget my last message. I already found out again that 'the defines' don't
add any datamembers. Only TObject does.
I do think though that THtml should not crash on these cases (at the
minimum just an error message reporting that the doc for OTABCDerived
can't be created because no RTTI for OTABC availiable, or something)
Rutger
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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 22:11:01 +0100 (MET)
From: Rutger van der Eijk <r36@sigyn.nikhef.nl>
To: ROOT mailing list <roottalk@root.cern.ch>
Subject: THtml for interface abstract base class
Hi ROOTers,
I'm trying to use documentation generator class THtml to generate doc. The
code generation crashes on a class which is derived from an abstract base
class (i.e. no datamebers).
simple example:
-------
class OTABC {
private:
public:
// Destructor
virtual ~OTABC();
// ...
virtual void SetXXX(UInt_t xxx) = 0;
virtual UInt_t GetXXX() const = 0;
};
and
class OTABCDerived: public OTABC {
private:
// OTABC member
UInt_t fxxx; // xxx datamember
public:
// Constructor & destructor
OTABCDerived();
virtual ~OTABCDerived();
// OTABC members
virtual void SetXXX(UInt_t xxx);
virtual UInt_t GetXXX() const;
// other members
ClassDef(OTABCDerived, 1) // OTABCDerived class
};
gives a crash if trying to make doc for OTABCDerived. I don't want to use
the ClassDef for OTABC because (as far as I know) this gives OTABC
datamembers which an ABC should not have.
How to proceed?
Rutger van der Eijk