Regards

[zodiac976]

I would like to thank everyone for helping me understand
scopes of classes, pointers and dynamic objects. I am
actually using pointers now in my code and
this:

Example: Character * ptrChar = new Character(); //parameters if I need them

Really comes in handy and also "this pointer" to .

[davidthefat]

I would like to thank everyone for helping me understand
scopes of classes, pointers and dynamic objects. I am
actually using pointers now in my code and
this:

Example: Character * ptrChar = new Character(); //parameters if I need them

Really comes in handy and also "this pointer" to .

I really need to get onto pointers, I kinda get it but not really... Its like you did Algebra, now go onto Algebra 2

[zodiac976]

I got a little worried about not using pointers in my new project
but I went back today and plugged in pointers where they are
needed and not only does the program run good it looks great
and is more toward OOP .

I could go on with a huge list of what I learned so far but I can
say I learned a lot more here than I did in college classes.

I can't wait to finish my text-based RPG and show it off .

[Ginto8]

Character*? I'm hoping you don't mean a substitution for char, because dynamic arrays of chars are about the most useful things in C++. example of a possible use for them (a static array would probably be more appropriate for certain parts):

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char* myCStyleStr = calloc((strlen("Hello World!") + 1) * sizeof(char));
strcpy(myCStyleStr, "Hello World!");
printf("%s\n", myCStyleStr);
myCStyleStr = realloc(myCStyleStr, strlen("Hello World! and Mars too!") + 1);
strcpy(myCStyleStr + strlen("Hello World!") + 1, " and Mars too!");
printf("%s\n", myCStyleStr);
free(myCStyleStr);
getchar();

stick that in main() and you'll get the output:

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Hello World!
Hello World! and Mars too!

so char arrays (especially dynamic) are extremely useful, and I'm hoping you didn't make a class to substitute them, because that's just clunky and wasteful .
</rant>

[zodiac976]

Character*? I'm hoping you don't mean a substitution for char, because dynamic arrays of chars are about the most useful things in C++. example of a possible use for them (a static array would probably be more appropriate for certain parts):

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char* myCStyleStr = calloc((strlen("Hello World!") + 1) * sizeof(char));
strcpy(myCStyleStr, "Hello World!");
printf("%s\n", myCStyleStr);
myCStyleStr = realloc(myCStyleStr, strlen("Hello World! and Mars too!") + 1);
strcpy(myCStyleStr + strlen("Hello World!") + 1, " and Mars too!");
printf("%s\n", myCStyleStr);
free(myCStyleStr);
getchar();

stick that in main() and you'll get the output:

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Hello World!
Hello World! and Mars too!

so char arrays (especially dynamic) are extremely useful, and I'm hoping you didn't make a class to substitute them, because that's just clunky and wasteful .
</rant>

no Character is an object of a class not the data type char.
I hardly use c-strings as I always fall back on the string
object.