Re: [Boost-users] Dynamically creating classed by name?

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-29 11:44:38

Note that a component of the serialization library "extended_type_info" 
addresses
this issue (as it must) in order to de-serialize pointers.  You might look 
in
the serialization documentation.

Robert Ramey

Rob Caldecott wrote:
> Is there any way that, using Boost, you can dynamically create
> classes by name, similar to the MFC RUNTIME_CLASS macros?  I was
> hoping that the boost::serialize libs might be able to help with this.
>
> For example, I want to be able to do something like:
>
> CMyClass* pClass = CREATE_CLASS_BY_NAME("CMyClass");
>
> Can Boost help me to achieve this?