Thread: C++ help

Either that,
or change how you allocate the objects in Body.cpp

Instead of

Code:

Neck = new Object();

Use

Code:

Object Neck();

(whether you allocate dynamically or not is down to exactly how you're going to be using the objects later on - if they're large, dynamic's always a good idea, as there's limited space on the stack)

Ooooh. Damn university taught me java, is there ever a more useless language? Is there a good C++ book like 'C in a nutshell'?

Hey, it compiles!

Bjarne Stroustrup (the guy who developed C++) has written a few books

Eg.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/C%2B%2B-Prog...0291486&sr=8-2
His stuff tends to be very involved, though

Any good book store should have loads of C++ books,
over a wide range of skill levels

but to be honest, most of the info is online anyway
check out
http://www.cprogramming.com/
and
http://www.cplusplus.com/

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Hey, it compiles!

no probs

If you've gone the dynamic way, remember to free objects after you've finished with them
else you'll have a memory leak

see these for dynamic memory / pointers
http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson6.html
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/dynamic.html

Oh right, I have to write a destructor. Damn java's garbage collector made me loose everything that I knew about C++.

Remember to make those destructors virtual as well, if you've got an inheritance hierarchy going on anywhere.

Oh crap, I didn't think that through. I have a parent class with some stuff in it, which needs to be purged on calling the destructor, but what happens if I call the destructor for the child class? Will it run both?

Code:

class Warrior: public Creature{
	public:
		Warrior();
		~Warrior();
...

The Creature class has dynamically created objects in it too.