Thread: Private class member not being set

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    Private class member not being set

    Right I've got an animation class - happy happy joy - and it has an inline function, SetUpdateDelay:

    Code:
    void SetUpdateDelay(float delay)
    {
        m_UpdateDelay = delay;
    }
    Looks pretty normal; what could go wrong, right? Wrong.

    I'm calling this function like so:

    Code:
        CAnimation explosion;
        explosion.AddFrame(m_ResourceMgr->GetTexture("./data/Explosion 1.png"));
        explosion.AddFrame(m_ResourceMgr->GetTexture("./data/Explosion 2.png"));
        m_Renderer->AddSceneObject("Explosion", explosion, CVector2<int>(100, 100));
        explosion.SetUpdateDelay(0.05f);
    If I step through it, CAnimation::m_UpdateDelay does indeed get set to 0.05. When I step through the update function, according to the debugger m_UpdateDelay is back to 250.0f (it's default value).

    What the hell am I doing wrong? I'm going to make the default value 0.05 right now and run that... otherwise I'm f'ing stumped.
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    >> void SetUpdateDelay(float delay)

    That a friend of your explosion instance? OR shouldn't it be

    Code:
    void CAnimation::SetUpdateDelay(float delay)
    {
        m_UpdateDelay = delay;
    }
    Spaces, I see

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    May-be something like that? (It seems that you didn't copy and paste the function.)
    Code:
    void CAnimation::SetUpdateDelay(float delay)
    {
        float m_UpdateDelay = delay;
    }
    That would declare a new local variable and shadow the class member.

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    Sorry I didn't say before, SetUpdateDelay is an inline member of CAnimation, as in I defined it in the class body. My bad.
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    In AddSceneObject, are you adding a copy of explosion? If you are, and then you update the local version to 0.05, then the copy will still have the previous version. What do you mean by "When I step through the update function", what update function?

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