C# - Singleton base class

Singletons don''t need templates. It''s just a static member of a class like so:

class Singleton
{
	static Singleton s;
	Singleton(int _k):k(_k){}
	Singleton(const Singleton &);// prevent copy construction
	int k;
public:
	static Singleton* Instance(){return &s}
};

Singleton Singleton::s(12);
 

I don''t know how c# handles the static object creation across files.

have your inhereted class pass back the instance for the singleton to use through a private abstract function and have your CSingleton class do it''s thing using an object reference (as in the ''object'' base class of everything). For when you want a reference to that instance the inhereted class could also override a public abstract to do the cast from object to whatever.




now i''m not an expert on singletons so I don''t know if it''s more involved that storing a static instance of the class within the class itself, but if it isn''t then all of this is really pointless and would be just as easy to implement in each class seperately. If there is more to it though, then I think this should work.

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Original post by ShockBoy

class MyClass : public CSingleton
{...};

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What I really meant was this:




I can't put in the inequality signs since it thinks they are html tags. Hopefully this worked instead.

I agree with all of you that you can just place an instance object in each class, and it may be easy to do so. But my problem is that C++ was able to encapsulate (maybe wrong word) singletons into a class of its own. By making that class a base class, you could make any class into a singleton automagically. It's too bad C# doesn't have the template capabilities, but I hear rumors that it may come in the next release (but I'm not holding my breath)

As for now, I'll probably just do the static instance in each class, maybe make an interface so that each class must obey my singleton standard.

But first of all, I'm going to get a book on C#, starting to get lost in the inheritance and polymorphism stuff. A little different than C++.

Thanks for all the help guys.


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[edited by - ShockBoy on December 26, 2002 2:07:38 PM]

yeap, In VS.Net 2003 C# will be staring a feature called generics, which from what i''ve read is much like templates in C++.


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Original post by joanusdmentia
yeap, In VS.Net 2003 C# will be staring a feature called generics,

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Nope. No generics until VS.NET For Yukon, probably some time in 2004.

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really!? DAMN YOU BILL GATES!!!!!!

I''d heard that Bill had been talking about generics and assumed they''d be for 2003, oh well.


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