How to use boost::bind in C++/CLI to bind a member of a managed class

Question

I am using boost::signal in a native C++ class, and I now I am writing a .NET wrapper in C++/CLI, so that I can expose the native C++ callbacks as .NET events. When I try to

Answer 1

After googling some more, I finally found a nice blog post about how to do this. The code in that post was a little more than I needed, but the main nugget was to use a global free function that takes an argument of the managed this pointer wrapped in a gcroot<> template. See the SomeEventProxy(...) in the code below for an example. This function then turns around and calls the managed member I was trying to bind. My solution appears below for future reference.

#include 

#include 
#include 
#include 

#using 

using namespace System;
using namespace msclr::interop;

typedef boost::signal ChangedSignal;
typedef boost::signal::slot_function_type ChangedSignalCB;
typedef boost::signals::connection  Callback;


class Native
{
public:

    void ChangeIt() 
    {
        changed();
    }

    Callback RegisterCallback(ChangedSignalCB Subscriber)
    {
        return changed.connect(Subscriber);
    }

    void UnregisterCallback(Callback CB)
    {
        changed.disconnect(CB);
    }

private:
    ChangedSignal changed;
};



delegate void ChangeHandler(void);


public ref class Managed
{
public:
    Managed(Native* Nat);
    ~Managed();
    void OnSomeEvent(void);

    event ChangeHandler^ OnChange;

private:
    Native* native;
    Callback* callback;
};


void SomeEventProxy(gcroot This)
{
    This->OnSomeEvent();
}


Managed::Managed(Native* Nat)
 : native(Nat)
{
    native = Nat;
    callback = new Callback;
    *callback = native->RegisterCallback(boost::bind( SomeEventProxy, gcroot(this) ) );
}

Managed::~Managed()
{
    native->UnregisterCallback(*callback);
    delete callback;
}

void Managed::OnSomeEvent(void)
{
    OnChange();
}


void OnChanged(void)
{
    Console::WriteLine("Got it!");
}

int main(array ^args)
{
    Native* native = new Native;
    Managed^ managed = gcnew Managed(native);

    managed->OnChange += gcnew ChangeHandler(OnChanged);

    native->ChangeIt();

    delete native;
    return 0;
}