class Creator

The Creator class template encapsulates a creator callback function for application-defined subclasses.

template <class type, typename param = Unpacker&> class Creator : public ListElement<Creator<type, param>>

type	The type of the base class for the application-defined class.
param	The type of the data passed to the creator callback function.

Creator(CreatorCallback *callback);

callback

A pointer to the creator callback function.

The Creator class template encapsulates a creator callback function that is called when the engine encounters an object that is a subclass of the template parameter, but is of an application-defined type. The CreatorCallback type is defined as follows.

typedef type *CreatorCallback(param data);

An application should define a function having this signature, create a Creator instance to encapsulate it, and then install the creator object by calling the Creatable::InstallCreator function.

When the engine calls the creator callback function specified by the callback parameter, it passes in the custom data type specified by the param template parameter, which is normally a reference to an Unpacker object. The application should examine this data (normally by calling the Unpacker::GetType function) and return a newly created class instance corresponding to that type if it is recognized. If the type is not recognized, then the callback function should return nullptr to indicate that the remaining installed creator objects are to be given the opportunity to create the subclass.

ListElement<Creator<type, param>>

The Creatable class holds a list of Creator instances.

Creatable