I added basic support for "opaque" type variables. I think there's one more

tweak to it that I would like to make, but it's fine for now.  I also added
open, close, read, and write functions.  They work just fine, but I'll also add
a readLine function, and maybe even a readToken function later.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/variable.h b/src/variable.h
index 260c96a..241393e 100644
--- a/src/variable.h
+++ b/src/variable.h
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ public:
                 typeVersion,
                 typeString,
                 typeList,
-                typeRef                 /**< Reference by name, it's just a string. */
+                typeRef,                        /**< Reference by name, it's just a string. */
+                typeOpaque                      /**< Only useful to functions. */
         };
 
 public:
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ public:
          */
         Variable( const StrList &lst );
         Variable( const VarList &lst );
+        Variable( void *oVal );
         virtual ~Variable();
 
         static Variable mkRef( const Bu::String &sVal );
@@ -54,6 +56,7 @@ public:
         bool getBool() const;
         const Bu::String &getString() const;
         const VarList &getList() const;
+        const void *getOpaque() const;
 
         // Conversion functions, they'll return the requested type, maybe an error
         // if the source data is really bad
@@ -77,6 +80,7 @@ public:
         const Variable &operator=( const double &rhs );
         const Variable &operator=( const bool &rhs );
         const Variable &operator=( const Bu::String &rhs );
+        const Variable &operator=( void *rhs );
 
         const Variable &operator+=( const Variable &rhs );
         const Variable &operator<<( const Variable &rhs );
@@ -102,6 +106,7 @@ private:
                 bool bVal;
                 Bu::String *sVal;
                 VarList *lVal;
+                void *oVal;
         } uVal;
 
         void reset( Type eType );