wxClassInfo

See Runtime class information (aka RTTI) overview.

Class: wxClassInfo

This class stores meta-information about classes. An application may use macros such as DECLARE_DYNAMIC_CLASS and IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS to record run-time information about a class, including:

• its position in the inheritance hierarchy;
• the base class name(s) (up to two base classes are permitted);
• a string representation of the class name;
• a function that can be called to construct an instance of this class.

The DECLARE_... macros declare a static wxClassInfo variable in a class, which is initialized by macros of the form IMPLEMENT_... in the implementation C++ file. Classes whose instances may be constructed dynamically are given a global constructor function which returns a new object.

You can get the wxClassInfo for a class by using the CLASSINFO macro, e.g. CLASSINFO(wxFrame). You can get the wxClassInfo for an object using wxObject::GetClassInfo.

See also wxObject and wxCreateDynamicObject.