I have 3 classes: A, B and C. C is #include
ed by B, and B is #includ
ed by A. In class C i have defined a handler for a button, and when the button is pushed, C will PostMessage
to object A. If i include A in C, i will have a cyclic reference, so what should i do to avoid this cyclic reference?
EDIT: All includes are made in implementation files.
You should use forward declarations. Since C
is not the owner of A
, I'll assume you have a pointer as a member. So you don't need to include:
class A; //forward declaration
class C
{
A* a;
};
In the implementation file, you'll include A.h
but that's OK. Also, if you can, use forward declarations in A.h
and B.h
where possible.