[wx-dev] confbase.h error in SVN trunk

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 10:37:03 -0500 Marcin Wojdyr <wojdyr at gmail.com> wrote:

MW> On 8/1/07, Julian Smart <julian at anthemion.co.uk> wrote:
MW> > appbase.cpp
MW> > ..\..\include\wx/confbase.h(216) : error C2668: 'Read' : ambiguous call
MW> > to overloaded function
MW> 
MW> VC6 has limited template support. I guess the call to function
MW> Read(wxString, wxString*) can't be resolved because of the template:
MW> 
MW>   template <typename T>
MW>   bool Read(const wxString& key, T* value) const;
MW> 
MW> there is also a full specialization there:
MW>   bool Read(const wxString& key, wxString *pStr) const;
MW> 
MW> I don't know what should be done about it.

 We probably need to define the old Read() as a template specialization
instead of overloading it. But if we don't manage to make this work with
VC6, I think we should rename the template Read() to ReadObject() as you
proposed as it's arguably better than to not support it at all for some
compilers.

 Regards,
VZ