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I am writing a message system for my game engine.
I am writing a message director so object types can register messages as to ease the time the handlers are in actions.
I do not want to run a for loop on a dword array to check if a certain unit type is to recieve this message for every message for every unit type.
Is there a quicker way?
Perhaps OR messages and some bit comparisons...
This I do not know how to do.
You should make a multimap (that would be a Dictionary abstract data type that can hold more than one value per key, implemented by std::multimap and the hash_multimap that comes as an extension with many compilers) that maps from the message ID to the unit types that are to receive the message.
Sounds rather complex to write myself.
I suppose I could use the STD for this
I want to research std::multimap?
I know what hash's are but I have no methods of generating them. You say the hash_multimap is a compiler extension? VC7 have it?
Edit: Google provides crap for std::multimap tutorials, articles, etc.
http://192.121.234.229/manualer/prog...p-members.html
That helps once I get it working, but I don't even know where to start.