Global variable

[Michael_Kamen]

Hi,


I have a bunch of classes.
One of them is called Player.

Now in another class I want to create an array of Players. That's no problem.
But I wonder where I should declare this array so I can use it throughout my application. Because (obvious) if I declare the array in the class NewGame, I can't use it in the class Game or something..

How can I make the array 'global'..


Thanks,

MK

[Pirate]

public static in your base class .

[Michael_Kamen]

So, I declare it in my base class, but I can't give it a size yet.

Can I redeclare it later?

[Magiaus]

Just use System.Collection.ArrayList instead.... dynamic size increase....

[Pirate]

Originally posted by Michael_Kamen
So, I declare it in my base class, but I can't give it a size yet.

Can I redeclare it later?

You can do something like this :

string[] str=null;


and when you need to use it do this ;

str=new string[5] .


I would go with Magiaus and say use ArrayList.

[Michael_Kamen]

Well, it doesn't seem to work.

I have this in my base class:

public static Player[] players;

Then in the class NewGame I have this:

Player[] players = new Player[PlayerCount];

Then I assign some values to the properties of the players, like players[i].Name etc..


Then when I try to access them in the class Game(), it doesn't work. I can't get the players[i].Name anymore for instance...

What am I doing wrong? :dunno:
I can't access the

[Pirate]

In the class NewGame change the declaration of the array to this:

players = new Player[PlayerCount];

[Michael_Kamen]

If I do that, I can't even access the array in the class NewGame anymore.. :dunno:

[pvb]

To make what you want to do work do something like this:

using System;

namespace Games
{
    public class MainApp
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Checkers checkers = new Checkers(3);
            Console.WriteLine("Total Players: {0}", GameBase.Players.Length);
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
    public class GameBase
    {
        public static Player[] Players = null;
    }
    public class Checkers : GameBase
    {
        public Checkers(int playerCount)
        {
            GameBase.Players = new Player[playerCount];
        }
    }
    public class Player
    {
        
    }
} 

Since you're making that Players array static in the base class your subclass won't pick that up, you have to call it directly on the base class.

[Magiaus]

public class Player{}
public class PlayerCollection : System.Collections.ICollection
{
	System.Collections.ArrayList players = new System.Collections.ArrayList();
	public int Add(Player player)
	{
		return players.Add(player);
	}
	public void Remove(Player player)
	{
		players.Remove(player);
	}
	#region Implementation of ICollection
	public void CopyTo(System.Array array, int index)
	{
		players.CopyTo(array, index);
	}

	public bool IsSynchronized
	{
		get
		{
			return players.IsSynchronized;
		}
	}

	public int Count
	{
		get
		{
			return players.Count;
		}
	}

	public object SyncRoot
	{
		get
		{
			return players.SyncRoot;
		}
	}
	#endregion
	#region Implementation of IEnumerable
	public System.Collections.IEnumerator GetEnumerator()
	{
		return players.GetEnumerator;
	}
	#endregion

	public Player this[int index]
	{
		get
		{
			return players[index];
		}
		set
		{
			players[index] = value;
		}
	}

}

public class Games
{
	private PlayerCollrction players = new PlayerCollection();
	public PlayerCollection Players
	{
		get{return players;}
		set{players = value;}
	}
}

[Pirate]

Originally posted by Magiaus

public class Player{}
public class PlayerCollection : System.Collections.ICollection
{
	System.Collections.ArrayList players = new System.Collections.ArrayList();
	public int Add(Player player)
	{
		return players.Add(player);
	}

Shouldn't this be a void and returning null ??

[Magiaus]

but it returns the index of the player