Thread: Creating a game with ADT List

Hi...I need some syntax help with my game! I'm still putting together the declaration files, and I'm using a provided ADT header file, such as follows:

Code:

const int MAX_LIST = 52;
typedef CSomeClass ListItemType;

// The following structure is what I am asking questions about:
struct card
{
     int value;
     char suit;
};

class List
{
public:
   List(); 

   bool isEmpty() const;

   int getLength() const;

   void insert(int index, ListItemType newItem,
               bool& success);

   void remove(int index, bool& success);

   void retrieve(int index, ListItemType& dataItem,
                 bool& success) const;

private:
   ListItemType items[MAX_LIST]; 
   int          size;            

   int translate(int index) const;
};

Now...how would I go about building the deck to assign a value to each card structure? Because I want an array of data type cards. Of course I can just manipulate the display to show the appropriate value and suite for the card number, but this seemed funner.
I don't even have the foggiest clue. With the old-fashioned std linked list one could just typedef the list and say something like

Code:

for(int x=1; x<=52; x++)
{
     cur->value = x;
}

but that doesn't really seem to apply in this case.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

I suppose items are inserted into the "List" using its insert member function. The arguments are pretty self-explanatory (although passing the success bool as an out parameter looks a bit stupid).

Items are probably modified by calling retrieve first to get the item and then calling insert to apply the changes (again something that would be much easier if this class just overloaded operator[]).

You would probably be better off using standard containers. In this case you probably don't want a list (which is a linked list, unlike this one, which looks like a plain array to me), but rather a vector.