controlling the creation of objects

[kumar_mk]

dear members, Is there any way i can control the creation of the objects for a class, like for example we have a singleton class for which we can create only a single instance, likewise i wanna limit the creation of objects say only 2 objects for a class or only 3 object for the class please give a small code example if possible. thank u in advance kumar_windows

[_AnsHUMAN_]

The simple way Create a static variable and in the contructor of the class keep on checking the value of it. If it exceeds the value (2 or 3 - exit) ex: class TestClass { static int i; public : TestClasss() { if(i>=3) exit(0); else i++; } // Carry on with your code }; Somethings seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them. ;-) _AnShUmAn_

[Nibu babu thomas]

kumar_windows wrote:

Is there any way i can control the creation of the objects for a class, like for example we have a singleton class for which we can create only a single instance, likewise i wanna limit the creation of objects say only 2 objects for a class or only 3 object for the class

You can have a static variable to count the number of instances created. Increment variable in the constructor decrement in the destructor. Hence keeping track of the objects created. The caveat is that you cannot entirely prevent the creation of an object but you can throw exceptions if object count increases beyond the limit that you have set.

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