Question

I have a class, called DynamicTexture that takes in the width and height of a texture as template parameters. The parameters are used to instantiate a fixed size table (which is also a template class).

In my case, I am instantiating the DynamicTexture for various powers of two width/height (so 2×2, 4×4, 8×8, 16×16, 32×32 etc. all the way to 4096×4096). That means I have a lot of declarations like this:

DynamicTexture<2, 2>       dTexture2;
DynamicTexture<4, 4>       dTexture4;
...
DynamicTexture<4096, 4096> dTexture4096;

Now the question is, can I automate that process somehow? Furthermore, I am selecting the approxiate dTexture by quering a variable of type unsigned int (which shows the current size selected by the user) and then displaying the texture:

if (currTexSize == 2) dTexture2->show();
else if (currTexSize == 4) dTexture4->show();
...
else { dTexture4096->show(); }

Again, any way to avoid the long list of if statements?

NOTE: I am not sure how to phrase the title for this particular question. Feel free to re-word it.

Answer 1

Now the question is, can I automate that process somehow?

You can do it with some advanced metaprogramming tricks:

template< int Width, int Height >
struct textures_holder
    : textures_holder< Width * 2, Height * 2 >
{
    typedef textures_holder< Width * 2, Height * 2 > base_t;

    void show( int currTexSize ) const
    {
        if( currTexSize == Width ) // or is it == Height?
            _texture->show();
        else
            base_t::show( currTexSize );
    }

    DynamicTexture< Width, Height > _texture;
};

template<>
struct textures_holder< 4096, 4096 >
{
    void show( int currTexSize ) const
    {
        _texture->show();
    }
};

then you would create an object of type textures_holder< 1, 1 > and get a variable for each of the power of 2 dimensions up to 4096.