passing a struct to a class

[major_small]

I was wondering if it could be done... I thought I read somewhere that it could, but I don't remember... these were the only guidelines that I found:

Containers can hold standard objects as well as custom objects, as long as the objects in the container meet a few requirements:

• The object must have a default constructor,
• an accessible destructor, and
• an accessible assignment operator.

if it can, how? what I'm trying to do is something like this:

/* MAIN.CPP */
...
int main()
{
   ...
   struct player
   {
       int atk,def,hp;
   };

   player p1

   loginClass login;
   login.init(p1);
   ...
}

the loginClass class is in a different file and gets linked... what I want it (login.init) to do is just open up a file and fill in the struct from that file... I don't really have any real code written yet, I just need to know how to write it...

[skorman00]

look up function parameters and passing by reference.

[major_small]

I did... how do you think I got the guidelines... what I want to know is if you can pass a struct, and if so, how? do you have to globally define the struct, or is defining the struct in the same scope you created an instance of the class enough?

the struct has to stay (at least) in main, because other classes will be using it...

[Sebastiani]

>> Containers can hold standard objects as well as custom objects, as long as the objects in the container meet a few requirements:

The reason for the above is simply so we can to manipulate our ADT's just like native ones:

 struct object
{
  virtual ~object() // MUST be virtual
 {

 }
  object() // default constructor
 {
  data = 0;
 }
  object(const object & x) // copy constructor
 {
  *this = x;     // see operator =, below 
 }
  const object & operator = (const object & x) 
 {
  data = x.data;
  return *this;  // so that we can chain assignments together 
 }
 
public:  
 int data; 
};

Then you will be able to do:

object a, b, c = a = b;


>> do you have to globally define the struct, or is defining the struct in the same scope you created an instance of the class enough?


It works just the same as with any other data type. You can make it global or better still, pass it as a parameter to the functions that will be manipulating it (but create it in main, of course, so that it doesn't get destroyed prematurally).


The loading of your object might go something like:

 bool loginClass::init(player & p)
{
 bool success = false;

 ifstream in("player.dat");

     if(in.good())
    {
     in >> p.atk >> p.def >> p.hp;
       
         if(!in.fail())  success = true;
    }
 
 return success;
}

[major_small]

^that won't complain that 'player' is undefined? (I don't have access to a compiler right now)

thanks for the help, btw

[skorman00]

the struct has to be made before the function. Doesnt have to be directly before it. For instance, you can create it in a .h file, and include that file into your main before you include the file with that loginClass.