still having OO knightmares
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I have a type i call "soldier" and i have 20 or so instances of that type on screen. my game requires the player to be able to click the mouse on a soldier and then be able to control that one soldier, then be able to click on another to deselect the first. hope thats clear. What the best way of doing this? thanks Pete |
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I would do it like this:Type Soldier Field x,y,blah .. End Type Global ucSoldier:Soldier ' current "user-controlled" Soldier ... ' update all soldiers For s:Soldier=Eachin SoliderList If UserClickedSolder(s) Then ucSoldier=s ' Update soldiers If s<>ucSoldier CPU_ControlsThisSoldier Else USER_ControlsThisSoldier EndIf Next Essentially, a pointer which indicates which soldier the player is currently controlling |
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Jim posted when i was coding but its done and figured i'd post anyway. very crude and basic example but i hope it helps |
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Thankyou both. Your detailed posts are very helpful. very crude and basic example but it answers my question very well |
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your welcome a side note: after rereading my posted code Method CheckMouseCollision(id) should be Method CheckMouseCollision() and If MouseDown(1) Then s.CheckMouseCollision(s.id) should be If MouseDown(1) Then s.CheckMouseCollision() i was gonna do more with it, but at the last second i decided not to over complicate what should just be a basic example and forgot to change the method/method call (fixed now). all though as is it doesn't affect anything, but its just not needed. anyway glad it helped 8-) |
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Thanks again |