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[Captacha]

I've been working on some 2D Movement in my games for the last few weeks and i'm using the SDL game libary for this game. I have a Player class with a SDL_Rect embedded in it for tracking x,y coordinates. The problem is that my Player will not move because my Input() method does not change the X Value. After doing some debugging, I figured out that my Input()method works and my Draw()method also works, but the Input()method does not change the values at all.

Input():

void Input(SDL_Rect Rect)
{
SDL_Event Event;
while(SDL_PollEvent(&Event))
{

  if(Event.type == SDL_KEYDOWN)
  {
   if(Key == SDLK_LEFT)
   {
	Rect.x--;
  
   }
  
   if(Key == SDLK_RIGHT)
   {
	Rect.x++;
   }
  }
  if(Event.type == SDL_QUIT)
  {
   Exit();
  }
}
}

[Wooh]

You pass the SDL_Rect by value so the changes to Rect will not be visible from outside the function. Instead pass a reference or a pointer.

void Input(SDL_Rect& Rect)
{
	...

[Captacha]

Thanks so much for helping me with that. I'm still a begginner with pointers so please excuse the stupid mistake.