Copy Constructors???

[deepchand86]

Hi...
I am little bit confused over the usage of copy constructors in Symbian c++. It is not the same as in General C++.. Since we have a two-phase construction approach how to incorporate them in the copy constructor of a C-class..I think it needs some additional consideration... Am i right?? And also we need to derive the class from CBase..which doesn't provide a virtual copy constructor...

Could anyone provide me an Insight into this pblm???

[skumar_rao]

from Symbian Docs

Copy constructors lose their "special status" in Symbian OS. Normally only classes with a destructor need copy constructors, and this means C-classes, but C-classes are only instantiated via NewL() and NewLC(). C-classes derive a private copy constructor from CBase, and since any you define are never public, they cannot be called implicitly.

[deepchand86]

So rather than going for Copy constructors..

I have to write my own piece of code which will suite my C-Class like CObject* Makecopy(CObject&) which returns the newly created object pointer...

[skumar_rao]

Yes you got it right.