Originally Posted by
KgNe
Lemme see if I got the code correctly.
The class baseobject is like a class for all the types of items that the player can carry in his/her inventory. virtual void Describe would have the description of the item. virtual bool isWeapon() determines if the item is a weapon and is false by default.
The class weapon is like a class for the weapon type of item. isWeapon() would be true because it is a weapon.
Yup, that's pretty much it. Although, my thoughts was that baseobject:
escribe would do something like this, which hopefully answers your question below as well:
Code:
void baseobject::Describe(bool brief)
{
if (brief) cout << shortDesc;
else cout << longDesc << endl;
}
Parts I don't get :
What is shortDesc and longDesc supposed to mean?
useWeaponOn means equip or don't equip? or does it mean something else?
No idea whats a virtual data type yet =(
Let's start with virtual - it essentialy means "use the object itself to find the function". Without virtual, the compiler uses the object-type of the current variable to find the function. With virtual, the object holds a pointer to the function [usually in the form of a vtable to be precise]. The purpose of this is that we can then use a baseobject pointer to hold an object [e.g. a vector of baseobject pointers], but the list could hold weapons and other derived objects that have different properties.
So, for example:
Code:
vector<baseobject> stuff;
baseobject *pillow = new baseobject("pillow", "A soft pillow - it looks so comfortable that you may want to rest your head on it right now");
weapon *axe = new weapon("axe", "A very sharp looking axe", 0.5);
stuff.push_back(pillow);
stuff.push_back(axe);
...
for(int i = 0; i < stuff.Size(); i++)
{
if (stuff[i]->isWeapon()) {
cout << "You can use ";
stuff[i]->Describe(true);
cout << "as a weapon";
}
}
For the above to work, we obviously need isWeapon to be called on the weapon class for axe to be recognized as a weapon.
My idea of "useWeaponOn" was more like when you say "Fight monster with axe", it would do "axe->useWeaponOn(monster)".
I think the description stuff is clarified by the examples.
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Mats
