Question

The many repetitious switch statements seems like it needs to be DRY’d. Any suggestions? (Including doing nothing!)

AnimMapIter _iter;
    _iter = _animations->find(name);
    if(_iter == _animations->end()) return;

    if(_curName != name) {
        _curName = name;

        switch(dir) {
        case DIR_FORWARD_LOOPING: /* Fall through to DIR_FORWARD_NONLOOPING */
        case DIR_FORWARD_NONLOOPING:
            _iter->second->First();
            break;
        case DIR_REVERSE_LOOPING: /* Fall through to DIR_REVERSE_NONLOOPING */
        case DIR_REVERSE_NONLOOPING:
            _iter->second->Last();
            break;
        }
    } else {

        switch(dir) {
        case DIR_FORWARD_LOOPING: /* Fall through to DIR_FORWARD_NONLOOPING */
        case DIR_FORWARD_NONLOOPING:
            _iter->second->Next();
            break;
        case DIR_REVERSE_LOOPING: /* Fall through to DIR_REVERSE_NONLOOPING */
        case DIR_REVERSE_NONLOOPING:
            _iter->second->Previous();
            break;
        }

        switch(dir) {
            case DIR_FORWARD_LOOPING:
                if(_iter->second->IsAtEnd())
                    _iter->second->First();
                break;
            case DIR_FORWARD_NONLOOPING:
                if(_iter->second->IsAtEnd())
                    _iter->second->Last();
                break;
            case DIR_REVERSE_LOOPING:
                if(_iter->second->IsAtFront())
                    _iter->second->Last();
                break;
            case DIR_REVERSE_NONLOOPING:
                if(_iter->second->IsAtFront())
                    _iter->second->First();
                break;
        }
    }

Answer 1

Everything under the else should collapse into a single switch to bring the related steps closer; e.g.

case DIR_FORWARD_LOOPING:
    _iter->second->Next();
    if (_iter->second->IsAtEnd()) {
        _iter->second->First();
    }
    break;

…all in that one case. Repetition of a couple of function calls is not a big deal when it makes the overall sequence of actions more clear.