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Dark GDK / Another OOP

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Niels Henriksen
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Posted: 6th Aug 2008 21:41
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Yehaaa.... now my code is readable



I still have a looong way to have all OOP'ed, but Im learning

Niels Henriksen
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if Microsoft can sell software with bugs, so can I.
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david w
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Posted: 7th Aug 2008 03:27
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I really dont understand the point behind OOP for GDK. Oh well thats just me though.
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Lilith
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Posted: 7th Aug 2008 05:27
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Quote: "I really dont understand the point behind OOP for GDK. Oh well thats just me though."


And I see every reason for it. OOP allows you to better organize the data for sprites and 3D objects. If you have dozens of objects on the screen would you like to maintain several arrays to handle the various attributes or one container per object to keep things straight? And when you develop classes to handle what the objects can do it's reusable and extensible (by inheritance.)

I've developed classes for Sprites, Images, Bitmaps, Mouse and Sound. I haven't released them because they're not completely tested, but for me they're usable and after having developed them for one game I'm working on (sporatically) they made it easier to get started on yet another game which is progressing a a reasonable clip. The Mouse class in particular has really made it easy to handle transitional states and work around some of the failings inherent in the GDK functions.

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 7th Aug 2008 08:42
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Neat.

You don't have to do this though:


Just this will do:



And I agree with Lilith.

Don't you just hate that Zotoaster guy?
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Niels Henriksen
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Posted: 7th Aug 2008 09:32
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Zotoaster - Nice... thanks

david - The idea about an OOP is that the code is more readable and its also faster for you to type. Its impossible to remember all commands and then its more easy to use objects.

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