Widgets and function pointers

I'm currently working through the setting screens, so I needed to make a few widget classes. Basically I have a bunch of widgets which contain their position, size and some functions to determine how input is handled. Now comes the fun bit, re-using the class for different options. I wanted one widget to handle starting a new game, one for toggling collision boxes, etc.

To get this done, I used function pointers. I'd let the scene handle the interactions with the widgets and when one was invoked, it's set callback was fired.

So in the header file, I have two members, the first being the function to call, and second being the parameter to pass into the function.

 @interface WidgetButton : WidgetBase   
 {  
   @public  
    void (*callback_routine)(void *data);  
    void *callback_data;  
 }  

When the widget is invoked, it then went ahead and fired it's function pointer.

 -(BOOL)handleControls:(ScreenTouches*)screenTouch  
 {  
   if( [super handleControls:screenTouch] )  
   {  
     if( callback_routine )  
     {  
       callback_routine( callback_data );  
     }  
     return YES;  
   }  
   return NO;  
 }  

So in the case of toggling a bool on or off, in the main scene I'd create a widget and pass in the function pointer for toggling bools with the variable active.

 activateWidget = [[WidgetButton alloc] init];  
 ((WidgetButton*)activateWidget)->callback_routine = &toggleBool;  
 ((WidgetButton*)activateWidget)->callback_data = &active;  

Finally, the function of toggleBool would simply toggle the bool.

 void toggleBool(void *data)  
 {  
   BOOL *toggle = (BOOL*)data;  
   *toggle = !(*toggle);  
 }  

So now we have a classes which encapsulate the drawing and user interaction, but provide differing responses.