# OgreProperty.h File Reference
Property

OGRE's property system allows you to associate values of arbitrary type with names, and have those values exposed via a self-describing interface. More...

`#include "OgrePropertyPrerequisites.h"`
`#include "OgreAny.h"`
`#include "OgreIteratorWrappers.h"`
`#include "OgreString.h"`
`#include "OgreException.h"`
`#include "OgreVector2.h"`
`#include "OgreVector3.h"`
`#include "OgreVector4.h"`
`#include "OgreColourValue.h"`
`#include "OgreQuaternion.h"`
`#include "OgreMatrix3.h"`
`#include "OgreMatrix4.h"`
`#include <boost/bind.hpp>`
`#include <boost/function.hpp>`

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## Classes

class | Ogre::PropertyDef
| Definition of a property of an object. More...
class | Ogre::PropertyBase
| Base interface for an instance of a property. More...
class | Ogre::Property< T >
| Property instance with passthrough calls to a given object. More...
struct | Ogre::PropertyValue
| A simple structure designed just as a holder of property values between the instances of objects they might target. More...
class | Ogre::PropertySet
| Defines a complete set of properties for a single object instance. More...

## Namespaces

namespace | Ogre

## Typedefs

typedef map< String, PropertyDef >::type | Ogre::PropertyDefMap
| Map from property name to shared definition.
typedef map< String, PropertyValue >::type | Ogre::PropertyValueMap
| Defines a transferable map of properties using wrapped value types (Ogre::Any)

## Enumerations

enum

Ogre::PropertyType {
Ogre::PROP_SHORT = 0, Ogre::PROP_UNSIGNED_SHORT = 1, Ogre::PROP_INT = 2, Ogre::PROP_UNSIGNED_INT = 3,
Ogre::PROP_LONG = 4, Ogre::PROP_UNSIGNED_LONG = 5, Ogre::PROP_REAL = 6, Ogre::PROP_STRING = 7,
Ogre::PROP_VECTOR2 = 8, Ogre::PROP_VECTOR3 = 9, Ogre::PROP_VECTOR4 = 10, Ogre::PROP_COLOUR = 11,
Ogre::PROP_BOOL = 12, Ogre::PROP_QUATERNION = 13, Ogre::PROP_MATRIX3 = 14, Ogre::PROP_MATRIX4 = 15,
Ogre::PROP_UNKNOWN = 999
}

| The type of a property. More...

## Detailed Description

OGRE's property system allows you to associate values of arbitrary type with names, and have those values exposed via a self-describing interface.

Unlike Ogre::StringInterface, the values are passed as their native types without needing conversion to or from strings; they are simply wrapped in an Ogre::Any and casts are performed to access them.

  Property values are actually not stored in this system; instead the property definitions reference getter & setter methods which provide the 'backing' for the property. This means you can directly expose features of your classes as properties without any duplication.

  There are two aspects to exposing a property on your class. One is exposing the definition of the property (PropertyDef), which should be shared between all instances and probably stored in a static PropertyDefMap somewhere. The second is the instance 'wiring' which ensures that a call to set a property calls a method on this particular instance of the class; this is formed by a number of Property instances, contained in a PropertySet. Each Property has an explicit binding to getter and setter instance methods.

  So, here's an example of setting up properties on an instance:

        // Make sure the property definition is created
        // propertyDefs is a variable of type PropertyDefMap, shared between instances
        PropertyDefMap::iterator defi = propertyDefs.find("name");
        if (defi == propertyDefs.end())
        {
            defi = propertyDefs.insert(PropertyDefMap::value_type("name",
                PropertyDef("name",
                    "The name of the object.", PROP_STRING))).first;
        }
        // This has established the property definition, and its description.
        // Now, we need to 'wire' a property instance for this object instance
        // We assume the class is called 'Foo' and the instance is pointed to by a variable called 'inst'
        // 'props' is a PropertySet, specific to the instance
        props.addProperty(
            OGRE_NEW Property<String>(&(defi->second),
                boost::bind(&Foo::getName, inst),
                boost::bind(&Foo::setName, inst, _1)));

Definition in file OgreProperty.h.

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