Including objects from another file

I'm not exactly sure on how to do this, or if it's possible.

I have a main.cpp which is the main loop. I then have a battle.cpp & .h which defines a class called Character.
And lastly I have an enemy.cpp which takes the Character class from battle.h and creates some Character objects eg. Character Person etc.

My question is how can I include the Character objects made by enemy.cpp, in main.cpp?

What do you mean by "creates some Character objects"?

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Originally Posted by King Mir

What do you mean by "creates some Character objects"?

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Character c;
OR
Character* pC = new Character;

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Anyway, the best way would be to pass those objects by reference or pointer the the functions requiring it to avoid unnecessary global variables.

Yeah, if Character, Person etc. are global variables, then you want to change that; it's bad design.

Thanks for the help so far.

Ok, I originally had this:

Main.cpp:

Code:

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/* main.cpp */

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <ctime>
#include "battle.h"
#include "enemy.h"

using namespace std;

int battle(Character, Character);

Character Enemy1("Goblin",50,2,2);            // enemy character
Character Person("Normal Person",100,10,10);  // hero

int main()
{
    battle(Person,Enemy1);
    return 0;
}

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Battle.h

Code:

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/* battle.h */

#ifndef BATTLE_H_INCLUDED
#define BATTLE_H_INCLUDED

class Character
{
public:
          Character(char*,int,int,int);  //constructor
int      get_hp(Character);
void      hit(Character&);       
void      enemyhit(Character&);
void      display(Character,Character);


private:
char      *name;
int      hp;
int      attack;
int      defence;
};

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Now I wanted to have an enemy.cpp file that did this:

Code:

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/* enemy.cpp */

#include "enemy.h"
#include "battle.h"

Character Enemy2("Goblin2",60,4,4);    // A new enemy

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And what I wanted to happen was for the Enemy2 character in enemy.cpp to get passed to main.cpp
so I could easily add enemies and stuff, and they could then be used in the main battle loop.

However I did the pointer thing with the Character class, but still can't get it passed to main.cpp.

Code:

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/* enemy.cpp */

#include "enemy.h"
#include "battle.h"

Character* Enemy2 = new Character("Goblin2",50,2,2);    // A new enemy

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Is that right? Should I be doing something different to be able to pass the Enemy2 character to my battle loop?

Avoid global variables. Let your main function create all those enemies. The advantage of that is that they will be all in the same source file.
All functions needing access to the Enemy can take a Character& or const Character& argument.

Thanks for the help, I'll do what you suggested.