Passing a TDesC between views

[ViruDoshi]

Hi,

I've been reading through the forum but haven't found anything that i could use.

I would like to know how to pass the value in a TDesC variable from one View's Container to another View's Container into another?

If i try to store a TDesC& variable in the View the error says it must be initialised in the constructor of that view.
If i try to store a TDesC variable it says cannot access protected member.

Also, how can I access the View1::Function() from View2->Container?

Any help on these questions is appreciated,
Thanks,
ViruDoshi

[symbianyucca]

TDes classes should not be instantiated, they are basically just abstract base classes, so just use them as a arguments in your functions, and with all variables use the derived classes (like TBuf) instead.

yucca

[ViruDoshi]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. You're absolutely correct, i did some reading and i'm trying to get to grips with descriptors, they're a little tricky.

Maybe you can answer this for me; Why is it that if, for example, i define TBufC<100> text locally and then do text. (the full-stop) i get a intellisense context menu for that class but if i put TBufC<100> text2 in my header file then i try to use text2 in a function no intellisense context menu popsup?

Thanks,
ViruDoshi

[symbianyucca]

by "intellisense context", do you meant the selection pop-up that pops-up while typing with metrowerks ? I really dont know about that, I think that it has completely its own mind, most often I don't get it, when I would like, and definetely get it when I wouldn't really like to see it.

yucca

[ViruDoshi]

Nope not in CodeWarrior IDE, with Visual Studio.Net. Wonder if that new carbide.vs ide (when its released) will handle this better, not a big deal but makes me second guess myself sometimes when i expected it to show but it doesnt. Inadvertently, perhaps this'll make me a better programmer lol

ViruDoshi

[Greg_Jokiel]

Hi,

Just in case you have not solved that one.

What you can do it pass a TPtr to both view and once you have something in one view to pass to the other you can make that TPtr point to a TBuf or other.

Once this is done you can always activate the other view so it can do something with the data you have passed.

This is just a basic idea. I am not sure I understand why you want to do that.

Usually a better way to do things is to keep the data in a place, only allow the UI to perform actions on the data and provide read only links to the data to views so they can render the data to the user.

GreG

[ViruDoshi]

Hi, thanks for the reply GreG.

I've solved this now. My motive was that in one view i have a list of messages, when a item on the list is selected i get the Message that relates to that item's index, then i need to deactive this ListView and activate the MessageView which displays in an editor the message that was selected.

So what i did was to save the message in a TBuf in the AppUi which the ListView accesses to Store the message text, and which the MessageView accesses to get the message text to show in the editor.

Very similar to what you suggested.

Thanks,
ViruDoshi