Global scope
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How do I use global scopes? I want to use functions from one class in another class. I am creating my Battle class, but it needs access to Player. Can I allow Battle class to use Player functions without deriving it? Scopes always confuse me.
Can someone explain static, virtual, and Constructors/Destructors initialize variables and delete variables, correct?
Thanks.
tatic, virtual, and Constructors/Destructors: these are all very different things, and I don't think you want any of them in this case.
I think what you really want to do is pass in your player object as a parameter to a method of your Battle class:
If not we can talk more about static methods (which is most likely what you would need).
Matt
I think what you really want to do is pass in your player object as a parameter to a method of your Battle class:
void Battle::doStuff(Player ply){ ply.funcInsidePlayer();}If not we can talk more about static methods (which is most likely what you would need).
Matt
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Yea, those things aren't import at the moment. They were just a few things that were annoying me because I don't know what they are used for or how they are used.
I just tried what you said, and yes that is what I want, but it gives errors.
Here are the errors:
battle.cpp:18: error: variable or field `LevelUp' declared void
battle.cpp:18: error: `int cBattle::LevelUp' is not a static member of `class cBattle'
battle.cpp:18: error: `cPlayer' was not declared in this scope
battle.cpp:19: error: expected `,' or `;' before '{' token
and heres the code for the player.h and the battle class
Player.h
Battle.h
Guess I do need to know about static members. :-
I just tried what you said, and yes that is what I want, but it gives errors.
Here are the errors:
battle.cpp:18: error: variable or field `LevelUp' declared void
battle.cpp:18: error: `int cBattle::LevelUp' is not a static member of `class cBattle'
battle.cpp:18: error: `cPlayer' was not declared in this scope
battle.cpp:19: error: expected `,' or `;' before '{' token
and heres the code for the player.h and the battle class
Player.h
#ifndef CPLAYER_CLASS#define CPLAYER_CLASS//--------------------------------------------------// Include Files//--------------------------------------------------#include <windows.h>#include <string>//--------------------------------------------------// Player.h class//--------------------------------------------------class cPlayer{ private: std::string P_Name; int P_Powerlevel; int P_MaxPowerlevel; int P_Attack; int P_MaxAttack; int P_Defense; int P_MaxDefense; int P_Ki; int P_MaxKi; int P_Level; int P_Experience; int P_MaxExperience; int P_Zenni; public: std::string GetName(); int GetPowerlevel(); int GetMaxPowerlevel(); int GetAttack(); int GetMaxAttack(); int GetDefense(); int GetMaxDefense(); int GetKi(); int GetMaxKi(); int GetLevel(); int GetExperience(); int GetMaxExperience(); int GetZenni(); void SetName(std::string newname); void SetPowerlevel(int newpowerlvl); void SetMaxPowerlevel(int newmaxpowerlvl); void SetAttack(int newattack); void SetMaxAttack(int newmaxattack); void SetDefense(int newdefense); void SetMaxDefense(int newmaxdefense); void SetKi(int newki); void SetMaxKi(int newmaxki); void SetLevel(int newlevel); void SetExperience(int newexperience); void SetMaxExperience(int newmaxexperience); void SetZenni(int newzenni); void ChangePowerlevel(int amount); void ChangeMaxPowerlevel(int amount); void ChangeAttack(int amount); void ChangeMaxAttack(int amount); void ChangeDefense(int amount); void ChangeMaxDefense(int amount); void ChangeKi(int amount); void ChangeMaxKi(int amount); void ChangeLevel(int amount); void ChangeExperience(int amount); void ChangeMaxExperience(int amount); void ChangeZenni(int amount); //To lower values, use changew/e and just use a negative number};#endifBattle.h
#include "battle.h"cBattle::cBattle(){ //ctor}cBattle::~cBattle(){ //dtor}void cBattle::DeathCheck(){}void cBattle::LevelUp(cPlayer player){ if (cPlayer.GetExperience >= cPlayer.GetMaxExperience) cPlayer.SetLevel(cPlayer.GetLevel + 1);}Guess I do need to know about static members. :-
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Ignore everything. I fixed it. I forgot to include the class I wa susing, and I missed closing a bracket for the function. Thanks for your help.
This function is broken. It doesn't do what you think it does.
void cBattle::LevelUp(cPlayer player) { if (cPlayer.GetExperience >= cPlayer.GetMaxExperience) cPlayer.SetLevel(cPlayer.GetLevel + 1); } void SetToZero( int x ) { x = 0; }
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Huh? What's wrong with the SetToZero function you have there??? It looks fine to me. Your getting an integer which you then set to 0. How is it wrong? Unless, your using the wrong variable? Actually yea. int blah SetToZero(blah) it would make blah go into x but not change the value of blah o.O Am I right?
For my function though, can you help me out a little more because I've never done anything like this (cPlayer player) I want to make the function able to take any object made from the player class and be able to change all of it's statistics.
Hope you understood all that lol. Thanks.
For my function though, can you help me out a little more because I've never done anything like this (cPlayer player) I want to make the function able to take any object made from the player class and be able to change all of it's statistics.
Hope you understood all that lol. Thanks.
the problem with setZero is that you are passing the variable by value.
so:
will create a new variable named 'x' that is only used within the function that has the same value as whatever you pass to it.
so someobject.SetToZero(myCoolVariable);
would do exactly the same as someobject.SetToZero(5);
(if myCoolVariable contains the value 5)
in order to allow SetToZero to modify the variable you pass to it you need to pass the address of the variable,
either by using
or the better and easier option
so:
void SetToZero( int x ) { x = 0;}will create a new variable named 'x' that is only used within the function that has the same value as whatever you pass to it.
so someobject.SetToZero(myCoolVariable);
would do exactly the same as someobject.SetToZero(5);
(if myCoolVariable contains the value 5)
in order to allow SetToZero to modify the variable you pass to it you need to pass the address of the variable,
either by using
void SetToZero(int *x) { (*x)=0;}somecrap.SetToZero(&somevariable)or the better and easier option
void SetToZero (int &x) { x=0;}somecrap.SetToZero(somevariable);
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Ohhh. I haven't used this before '&'. I knew it had to do with addresses, but didn't know much about. Pointers are another thing that confuse me. I think this should work.
Where into the function, all those player.blah are now w/e player has the address of. So now it can work on say Chicken, Dog, Cat and still not bother the other animals so to speak?
void cBattle::LevelUp(cPlayer &player){ if (player.GetExperience() >= player.GetMaxExperience()) player.ChangeLevel(1); player.ChangeMaxAttack(2); player.ChangeMaxDefense(2); player.ChangeMaxExperience(200); player.ChangeMaxKi(5); player.ChangeMaxPowerlevel(10); player.ChangeZenni(3);}Where into the function, all those player.blah are now w/e player has the address of. So now it can work on say Chicken, Dog, Cat and still not bother the other animals so to speak?
Quote:Original post by SonicD007
Ohhh. I haven't used this before '&'. I knew it had to do with addresses, but didn't know much about. Pointers are another thing that confuse me. I think this should work.
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Where into the function, all those player.blah are now w/e player has the address of. So now it can work on say Chicken, Dog, Cat and still not bother the other animals so to speak?
yup pretty much, (if Chicken, Dog, Cat, etc are players that is)
basically a pointer contains a memory address
so
int a = 5;
int *b = &a
would create something like this. (crappy ascii picture)
--- ---
|b| ----> |a|
|*| |5|
--- ---
a is a variable with the value 5,
b is a pointer that "points" at a. (b:s value is the address of a, or &a)
given an address you can access the value stored by using a dereference.
(*b) is 5.
Quote:Original post by SonicD007
So now it can work on say Chicken, Dog, Cat and still not bother the other animals so to speak?
No, presuming that by referring to Chicken, Dog and Cat you are referencing the common (and stupid) inheritance examples of creating a base class named Animal and derived classes as previously mentioned.
A reference, as created using the address-of operator (&) in a parameter list, contains the address of an object of that type, and of that type only. To enable polymorphism (the ability to treat an object of one type as another, related type), you must use pointers in C++.
The Anonymous Poster above conflates a pair of uses of the address-of operator:
- It can be used to obtain the address of an existing variable, as in the example:
int a = 5;int * addr = &a // addr contains the address of a*addr = 4; // we _dereference_ addr to access and modify the valuecout << a << endl; // prints 4, because that's the new value of a - It can be used to create a reference variable:
int a = 5;int & b = a; // note the placement of the &, and the absence of *b = 4;cout << a << endl; // prints 4, as b is effectively an alias for aint c = 6;b = c; // has the effect of setting the value of a to the value of ccout << a << endl; // prints 6
The use of references is the second example, allowing you to pass an object to a function and obtain an alias that modifies the original object. C++ however, thanks to its C legacy, is a little confusing, so there's one more use of the & symbol that is completely unrelated to the above:
int a = 5; // in binary, this is 00000101int b = 12; // binary: 00001100int c = a & b; // this performs a bitwise AND. result: 00000100cout << c << endl; // prints 4There's also &&, which is a logical AND, similar to the bitwise AND above but operating on boolean variables.
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