[boost] Any interest in a lightweight push button class?

From: Matthias Schabel (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-11 18:57:21

I've written a small class that implements functionality emulating push
buttons (think old radio) but with more flexibility in determining the  
precise
behavior which has come in handy for controlling more complex state
flags.  A policy class is responsible for determining what internal
invariants are enforced and allows for more or less complete flexibility
in defining the constraints in constructing the push button set.   
Currently
there are four policy classes implementing simple cases :

1) ZeroOrOneOn : zero buttons or one button may be on
2) ZeroOrMoreOn : zero buttons and up to N buttons may be on
3) OnlyOneOn : one and only one button may be on
4) OneOrMoreOn : at least one and up to N buttons may be on

where N is the size of the push_button array.  The test program also  
demonstrates
a policy requiring that two adjacent buttons be on at any time as a  
slightly non-trivial
case.  The usual place :  
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/push_button.zip
Tested with Metrowerks CW 8.3 and gcc 3.3 on Mac OS X.

Matthias

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