Brian Keller (XNA) wrote:
> I'm wondering what commercial tools (if any) game studios are using to
> manage and orchestrate their builds (e.g. FinalBuilder, Visual Build
> Pro, BuildForge). I'm looking for some opinions about those types of


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> One of our clever Python guys wrote a program that reads in a flat text
> file of source files and generates vcproj files for win32 & x360 as well
> as makefiles for ps3.  We also have a VS.NET <http://VS.NET> plugin that
> catches file adds and removes and appropriately edits this source file,
> so we can still use VS.NET <http://VS.NET> in the intended way.

It would seem that keeping that text file in line with the source would
be a little bit of a bother (VS plugin or no)?

I've been experimenting with setting up a system of reflection in C++,
but have found that doing reflection on class functions is messy to
implement.
Currently I'm using some defines that create a new class per function,
and
after grabbing the relevant property class, you call:

CFunctionMethod* property = object->FindFunction( "DoSomething" );
property->CallMethod( object, params );

One thing that is very messy about this is that the params need to be
known
in advance. Take this example:

switch( property->GetParamsType() )
{
case PARAMS_1Int:
        ((CFunctionMethod_1Int*)property)->CallMethod( object, i );
        break;
case PARAMS_2Int:
        ((CFunctionMethod_2Int*)property)->CallMethod( object, i, j );
        break;
}

Obviously this will get difficult to maintain as the permutations of
ParamsType grows, and I feel sure there must be a better way.

I've been reading the article in Games Programming Gems 5, called 'Using

Templates for Reflection in C++' which implements a nice neat way of
doing
reflectance of data members.
This is relatively simple as there is a limited number of data types
(int,float,pointer,etc) and the Get() and Set() functions need none or
one
parameter only.
Templates are used in this system, but not defines.

The article claims that it is easy to expand their system to support
exposure of class functions as well, but obviously I'm a bit stupid and
can't see how this can be done. The main obsticle is the varying number
and
types of parameters that a function will require.

Can anyone point me in a better direction?
Thanks


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