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I have been writing a simple comsole RPG game. I have my characters in a characters.cpp file, using a class called creature. I need to be able to declare the variables for my creatures, say the vulture (object of creature) so i can access it's methods through engine.cpp (my main file). If anyone has any tips for this situation, it would be appreciated, and if anyone knows where i can find a tutorial on using extern and making header files and such, let me know! Thanks in advance!
~Inquirer
Avoid globals if possible. Why not have a non-global instance of the creatures somewhere within the engine?
Sometimes globals are necessary. You have an 'engine' - it should be global, right?
On a slightly different, but related note:
I wish someone could explain to me what the difference is between using a static and an extern in the following case:
static int gv_globalCount;
or
extern int gv_globalCount;
>I wish someone could explain to me what the difference is between using a static and an extern in the following case
static int gv_globalCount; - This means that gv_globalCount is an integer that can only be accessed inside the source file that it was declared in. So if it is declared in foo.cpp then it cannot be used in bar.cpp.
extern int gv_globalCount;- This is the exact opposite, it means that gv_globalCount is defined elsewhere but you can use it here. If it was defined in foo.cpp then bar.cpp could declare it as extern and use it.
-Prelude
externs are necessary in most projects. just don't make ALL of the variables global, some n00bs have been known to do this.
globals are never "necessary" but not entirely evil for something like an engine object. Engines are after all sets of global functions. Although, your app is only alive for the time that main() is alive. therefore the engine could exist there and be passed into other objects. I've begun practicing the same thing with HINSTANCE of the app because it was the only global I was still using. I am now global free and much happier :)
I'm doing the exact same thing Inquirer. Download this .zip and see what I did. All my classes are in classes.h, and my main source-code (sourceCode.cpp) uses objects that are created in classes.h.
THanks guys! All the stuff you guys posted has combined to make my test run of my program successful. As soon as i am finished with a few rooms and the fight module of the engine, i will post int in the games forum.
~Inquirer