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Started by deftware December 27, 2009 09:46 PM

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deftware

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December 27, 2009 09:46 PM

Hey there. I'm trying to write a scripting engine and I seem to have all the crazies worked out except for determining the offset to a member of a struct.. eg:


struct s_ent
{
   float origin[3], velocity[3];
   float rgb[3];
   int movetype, solidtype;
};

s_ent fakeentity;
int movetype_offset = &fakeentity.movetype - &fakeentity

but is there a way to do it without creating fakeentity ?

Drew_Benton

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December 27, 2009 09:54 PM

As long as you have a POD type, you can use the offsetof macro. If you add any member functions, non-public access members, inheritance, or non-primitive data types to the struct, it is no longer a POD type and this will not work in all cases anymore.