Need a little help with lists in a Class

**Saryon** · 11-20-2002

Ok, I just need a little help. I remember trying to make a list for another Class a few months back for a game I was making for a school assignment, and the list didn't want to initialize. I can't test this yet, as my program isn't done yet, but I just wanted to see if my code so far was correct.

The first part(cut down for clarity):

Code:

private:

  int maxhp;
  int fightermaxhplist[50] = { 35, 63, 91, 120, 149, 178, 207, 237, 267, 297, 327, 333, 364, 395, 401, 433, 465, 472, 504, 537, 545, 578, 611, 620, 629, 663, 672, 682, 717, 727, 737, 773, 784, 795, 831, 843, 855, 892, 904, 917, 955, 968, 981, 1020, 1034, 1048, 1087, 1102, 1117, 1157};

The second part:

Code:

int charstats::calculatemaxhp()
  {
    if((charclass==1) || (charclass ==7))
    {
      maxhp = fightermaxhplist[level-1];
    }

Will that work, or will I have to initialize the list some other way? I'd like to keep the list in the class if that's possible, though I could work it into the main program if I had to.

**Magos** · 11-20-2002

You cannot init data directly in the class, that's what the constructor is for.

**Saryon** · 11-20-2002

Well, that kinda sucks. Thanks for the reply, though. Guess I'll have to rework my class, and put that into my main program.

**Nippashish** · 11-20-2002

You can use a pointer as long as you remember to free up the memory when the object is destroyed.

Code:

class Fighter
{
public:
	Fighter();
	~Fighter() { delete [] _maxHpList; }
private:
	int *_maxHpList;
};

Fighter::Fighter()
{
	_maxHpList = new int[50];

	// assign your values here. I dont know any way of just saying maxHpList = { ... }
	// if you're doing it this way, so it would help if you had a formula.
}

**Saryon** · 11-22-2002

Don't I know it. Unfortunately, I don't know the exact formula, though I think I could come up with one if I really needed to. I just made it into a funtion in my main file, and it works fine now.

**Fordy** · 11-22-2002

If the array is going to be the same for each class produced and wont be altered, then you could make it a const static

Code:

#include <iostream>


class foobar{
private:
	static const int Array[10];
public:
	int operator[](int n){return Array[n];}
};

const int foobar::Array[10] = {6,2,5,5,4,5,6,3,7,6};

int main(void){

	foobar f;

	for(int i = 0; i < 10; ++i)
		std::cout << f[i] << " ";

}

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