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How should i call my classes instead of "xyManager"?

Szenczi Attila · 2014-12-14T18:40:07

Hello! I am currently working in an RTS game in C++. I read in alot of place that calling something "Manager" is generally bad, because it's too generic and say nothing about what the class really does. However, i have no idea how to call them instead. Currently i have these: - ImageManager: It load the images, and every class that need a texture can get it from this class. This is because IO operations are REALLY expensives, so i rather read the images once and use all from the memory. - Building and Unit Manager: These classes have a container, which contains all Building/Unit which are currently alive. You can update them through this class and it's also check if you clicked to one of them. - EventManager: I didn't wrote it yet, but this supposed to handle Commands and other events. You can basically post any command or event to execute them in the next iteration of event loop. Any idea what name would fit better what these classes do? Thank you very much for the answer!

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Started by Melkon December 13, 2014 10:42 AM

9 comments, last by Irlan Robson 9 years, 4 months ago

Irlan Robson

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December 14, 2014 06:40 PM

"Oh, Gee! In my computer I have a Task Manager that manages everything related with tasks!".

In the phrase above the author wasn't saying what is inside the Task Manager - just gave a name of the overall functionality of it.

"Oh! I see now that the Task Manager has a Task Executor embedded with it! Good, because I thought that the Task Manager was managing the entire Operational System".

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