c++macrostypedef

Get typedef of current class

I'm currently using boost::intrusive_ptr together with my GUI classes. Although this is more or less a convenience question, is there a proper way to get the typename of the current class? The reason I'm asking is that I have a macro for typedef'ing the different pointer types:

#define INTRUSIVE_PTR_TYPEDEFS(CLASSNAME) typedef boost::intrusive_ptr<CLASSNAME> Ptr; \
typedef boost::intrusive_ptr<const CLASSNAME> CPtr; \
typedef CLASSNAME* WeakPtr; \
typedef const CLASSNAME* CWeakPtr;

...

class Widget
{
public:
    INTRUSIVE_PTR_TYPEDEFS(Widget);
    ...
};

class Button : public Widget
{
public:
    INTRUSIVE_PTR_TYPEDEFS(Button);
    ...
};

It would be much more comfortable to have CLASSNAME automatically deduced so you could simply copy'n'paste it into the class body. I'm using the compiler shipped with Visual Studio 2010.

Solution

  • No, that's not possible to do in C++.