I've got a gtkmm-2.2 application that stores it's data in the ost
persistent streams. To date, I've been using the 1.0.x version of the
common
C++ library for this persistence function.
I've noticed that in the 1.0.x versions of the library, the
exceptions
for persistent streams basically don't work and the application just
calls
abort(). So, I figure that it's time to upgrade.
While porting to the new version of the library, I notice that
there is
a ost::String class, which is the only way to get strings in and out
of the
persistent streams.
However, the gtkmm library is designed to integrate nicely with
std::string.
What's the best way to integrate the two packages so that they
work
nicely with each other?
I was considering writing a number of global type conversion
operators,
but that didn't seem to work pretty well.
Then I thought that I should create my own sub-class off of
ost::String
to add the additional type conversion operators that I needed to
convert to
std::string when needed in a nice, quite, and clean manner. But this
appears
not to work nicely either.
I'm open to suggestions.
Thanks,
Erik.
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