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I can not even try to argue with you because you are by a lot of heads taller than me in programming

I just thought that Shader is a base class. And OpenGLShader and maybe DirectXShader are derived classes.

But as I understand

Shader* shader=new Shader();

allays returns Shader object and it can not return any other derived type. That what I meant.

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I think static methods is a good way to go. I think constructor doesn't control memory allocation of the object itself. The compiler with the "new" command does it.

All, that work with pointers must work with objects. I mean both:

Mesh* meshObj=new Mesh("mesh.gmf");
Mesh meshObj("mesh.gmf");

must work. But with the exceptions you can not use second line, right?

 

It will be similar with what Roland suggested

KittenFactory fact;
Kitten* k = fact.CreateFluffy()

But factory will be encapsulated in the class.

Kitten* k=Kitten::CreateFluffy();

 

That is only my thoughts. I'm not as good in programing as you guys.

 

[Edit] Damn I type too slow. Two more posts are made

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Isn't Shader an abstract class? And OpenGLShader is it's extension? How can constructor return different types?

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Maybe you should place all Create/Load methods in classes as static methods.

 

For example:

 

Model* myModel=Model::LoadModel("myModel.gmf");
Shader* myShader=Shader::LoadShader();

 

And this static functions could return NULL or object itself.

And in LoadShader() function you can decide what exactly type of shader to return

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So, if we have 10 models to load we will need write try/catch 10 times for each model, right?

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But how will you bake try/catch in to the engine? As I understand its talked about our (customer) side of programming.

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