I'm doing this text-based strategy game. Anyway, one aspect is that you can form X number of soldiers into a unit. Obviously I'm going to have a unit class for this, but like, okay, I can't really have a pre-define amount of unit OBJECTS because there's never really going to be a stable amount of units present. My initial thought is to use NEW to create a new one and then delete it whenever said unit is killed. Is there a better way to do this?
I would use either a STL vector or list container depending on your requirements. If you haven't used the STL before I would suggest googling for some tutorials but it is very easy once you get the hang of it.
"...the results are undefined, and we all know what "undefined" means: it means it works during development, it works during testing, and it blows up in your most important customers' faces." --Scott Meyers
Alright, I figured I'd probably end up using a vector here. Just curious, but don't vectors dynamically allocate... stuff? I'm assuming here that instead of having a vector of pointers to unit object, I'd just have a vector of units directly; at this point, I'd need to modify unit at vector position i to have whatever values I want the new pointer to have, correct? And if I needed to remove a unit, I'd knock it out of the vector, and on creating a new one... I'd search through for the first non knocked out value, I assume?
(I can think of several ways of making a value knocked out. Don't take that too heavily).
I guess my next goal is finding a method of manipulating the buggers. I can do that on my own (ORganize them by some method, I guess, or rather, search througfh them based on a certain variable). I'm just not really sure HOW to differentiate them.
On actually executing stuff during a turn I wouldn't really need this. It's more for assigning actions. Would I have them assume the variable marking their position in the vector as an ID number, and simply have a "Enter unit ID" prompt somewhere, and a "Show ID" command elsewhere?
