STATIC_DOWNCAST

In this article

1. Syntax
2. Parameters
3. Remarks
4. Requirements
5. See Also

 

Casts pobject to a pointer to a class_name object.

Syntax

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STATIC_DOWNCAST(
class_name
, pobject )

Parameters

• class_name
  The name of the class being cast to.

• pobject
  The pointer to be cast to a pointer to a class_name object.

Remarks

pobject must either be NULL, or point to an object of a class which is derived directly, or indirectly, from class_name. In builds of your application with the _DEBUG preprocessor symbol defined, the macro will ASSERT if pobject is not NULL, or if it points to an object that is not a "kind of" the class specified in the class_name parameter (see CObject::IsKindOf). In non-_DEBUG builds, the macro performs the cast without any type checking.

The class specified in the class_name parameter must be derived from CObject and must use the DECLARE_DYNAMIC and IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC, the DECLARE_DYNCREATE and IMPLEMENT_DYNCREATE, or the DECLARE_SERIAL and IMPLEMENT_SERIAL macros as explained in the article CObject Class: Deriving a Class from CObject.

For example, you might cast a pointer to CMyDoc, called pMyDoc, to a pointer to CDocument using this expression:

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CDocument* pDoc = STATIC_DOWNCAST(CDocument, pMyDoc);

If pMyDoc does not point to an object derived directly or indirectly from CDocument, the macro will ASSERT.

Requirements

Header: afx.h