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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: GDNative thick binding design
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:09:13 +0100
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On 16/10/2020 17:39, Michael Hardeman wrote:
> On Friday, October 16, 2020 at 2:38:38 AM UTC-4, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the detailed reply. Unfortunately I think I didn't get my question across correctly.
> 
> I'm pretty familiar with most of the basic stuff I can do in Ada. I'm not asking for general advice on making a thick binding, I'm asking for help with one specific data structure/pattern.
> 
> What is the best way to make Ada types/functions that wrap a particular thing:
> 
> I just pushed a work in progress branch where you can see what I'm struggling with:
> 
> https://github.com/MichaelAllenHardeman/gdnative_ada/blob/feature/adventure_game/examples/adventure_game/src/engine_hooks.adb#L29
> https://github.com/MichaelAllenHardeman/gdnative_ada/blob/feature/adventure_game/examples/adventure_game/src/example_object.adb#L90
> 
> Is it possible to create type (tagged record maybe) who's dispatching methods automatically register in some way?
> 

If you mean call Register(Context); on construction of the object, then 
have you looked at the factory stuff?

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rm/html/RM-3-9.html#I2118