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Inside Macintosh: Cyberdog Programmer's Kit / Part 3 - Cyberdog Reference

Chapter 7 - Classes and Methods / CyberSession

NewCyberItem

Creates a Cyberdog item.

CyberItem NewCyberItem (in char* classID);

classID

A pointer to the SOM class ID of the Cyberdog item to create.

return value

The newly created Cyberdog item.

DISCUSSION

This method creates a Cyberdog item for the specified SOM class ID. The first time a particular class ID is passed to the method, the method calls ODNewObject to create a prototype Cyberdog item for that class ID, caches the prototype, and returns a clone of that prototype. On subsequent calls to the method with the same class ID, the method returns a clone of the prototype.

This method is optimized for creating large numbers of Cyberdog items at a time, for example, when reading the log from storage.

Do not subclass this class.