I''m building a small game/demo blah blah blah. Ok, what I''m having trouble with is an array of classes. Let me explain. I have a class that I built to handle a certain aspect of the demo I''m working on. There will be many of these classes in the demo. I''m try to make an array of these classes, but I''m having trouble doing so. I''m not sure as to the syntax. When I was not using a contructor for the class, I had no trouble declaring an array of them, but when I used the constructor, Ii was confused by the massive amounts of errors that appeared. Any help would be much appriciated. If I need to explain the situation more, or post source code, please let me know. Thanks in advance. The Kid I don''''t know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.

In general you use the same syntax as you would use with any type etc.

If your class (eg called MyClass) constructor takes no parameters then something like:

MyClass ArrayOfMyClass[100];

should work fine. You could also do that dynamically like:

MyClass *ArrayOfMyClass=new MyClass[100];

but remember to delete[] ArrayOfMyClass when you are finished with the array if you do so.

If your class constructor has any parameters then you would have to initialise each class instance with those required parameters.

If you''ve already tried all this, then sorry for repeating the obvious to you.

Thanks alot guys. Its good to be able to drop my problems on people that actually know what a syntax is. Thanks again.

The Kid

I don''''t know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.

To create the arrays:

MyClass array1[100];

and

MyClass* array2 = new MyClass[100];

You will need a default constructor, one that does not take any arguments, to create both of them. Another way to create the second array would be to create an array of pointers to instances of the class. And then fill them in with a for loop or whatever you feel is right in your case.

This could be a solution if you don't want a default constructor.

MyClass* array3[100];

for( int j = 0; i < 100; i++ )
{
array3[j] = new MyClass( "some", "arguments" );
}

Anyway, the reason things went wrong when you addded the constructor is that when you did not have a constructor at all the compiler added a default constructor, that does nothing, for you. This will not be the case if you write your own constructor, so now you need to write your own default constructor.

class MyClass
{
public:
MyClass() {} // Default constructor doing nothing
...
};

Maybe that would be the easy way out for you?

-Benny-

Edited by - benstr on September 25, 2001 10:53:46 AM