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okay, so I'm trying to make an RTS game in allegro, it's kinda hard. But I'm making great progress.

Now I'm wondering if it's possible do to something like this:

Class Destroyer
{
//blah blah
}

and then make x an int so that I can call it up by doing something like this..
Destroyer.1

but when I created it, I used this:

Destroyer.x (x = 1 at the moment I'm doing this)

Well, now I'm wondering, is this possible? Or is it just impossible

If this is working it will be great, because then I'm able to create alot of units on the game ;P


Friendly Regards, Ruud

I don't think that is possible what your doing. I think want you want is a object array and that you can do

noobgrammer wrote:I don't think that is possible what your doing. I think want you want is a object array and that you can do

Sorry, I think I explained it kinda stupid.
I meant something like this:

Class Destroyer
{
//blahblah
}

Destroyer.x;

and then I want that x to be a number, so instead of calling up x.Destroyer to change things, I want to be able to do: Destroyer.1if x was 1 at the moment of creation.

Provided that x is public, you can be like

Destroyer.x += Destroyer.speed;

but in general, you'll want to write a function to do this for you, so

Destroyer.Move( UP );

would take care of the code.


I don't really understand what "Destroyer.1" means.

For having multiple units, you'd have multiple instances, using either a static array:

Destroyer destroyerUnit[100];

or a dynamic array:

Destroyer *destroyerUnit = NULL;
destroyerUnit = new Destroyer[SIZE];

but make sure you clean up your code.


You can set default variable values with constructors.