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Making an array of a class

Making an array of a class, Is it possible to make an array of a class in vb?

lwstory	29 Oct, 2007 - 02:44 PM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 29 Oct, 2007 Posts: 10 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	I was wondering if it was possible to make an array of a class. I made a class called creatures (for a game of course) and wanted to make an array of that class. So I tried "public creature() as new creatures", and it had a problem with using an array with new. Is there a way around this. All I am using the class for is variables. i.e.: in my class all i have is dim health, defense,... as integer and dim name as string and no get commands because I forgot how to use them. Also, I'm not sure if there is some other way i could go about doing this.
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Martyr2	RE: Making An Array Of A Class 29 Oct, 2007 - 02:53 PM Post #2
Programming Theoretician Joined: 18 Apr, 2007 Posts: 7,243 Thanked: 820 times Expert In: C/C++, Java, VB, VB.NET, C#, PHP, Web Development, HTML & CSS, Javascript My Contributions	Are you using visual basic 6 or .NET? Sounds like .NET but I just wanted to make sure before providing you an example. Thanks.
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lwstory	RE: Making An Array Of A Class 29 Oct, 2007 - 02:54 PM Post #3
New D.I.C Head Joined: 29 Oct, 2007 Posts: 10 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	Im using .net
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Martyr2	RE: Making An Array Of A Class 29 Oct, 2007 - 03:08 PM Post #4
Programming Theoretician Joined: 18 Apr, 2007 Posts: 7,243 Thanked: 820 times Expert In: C/C++, Java, VB, VB.NET, C#, PHP, Web Development, HTML & CSS, Javascript My Contributions	Ok, here is a good sample for you using your creatures. I created a class called "creatures" and filled the array of creatures with 10 creatures named MonsterMan0 - MonsterMan9. Just read the comments and follow along. CODE ' Create an array of creature classes Dim creatureArray(10) As creatures Dim i As Integer = 0 ' Load up the array with 10 creatures named MonsterMan0 - MonsterMan9 For i = 0 To 9 Dim mycreature As creatures = New creatures() ' Set his name and his age (all our monsters are clones, so they have the same age! (you could assign whatever data you wanted) mycreature.name = "MonsterMan" & i.ToString mycreature.age = 100 ' Store our copy of the creature into the array of creatures creatureArray(i) = mycreature Next ' Show the name of the 5th monster who is in slot 4 because the array starts at 0, so his name is MonsterMan4 MessageBox.Show("The 5th monster is named: " & creatureArray(4).name) I hope you get the idea now. We simply create an array of creatures and then we create a new creature in our loop and store it in the next slot of our array. At the end we have an array of ten creatures starting in slot 0 through slot 9. Then we can get at each creature by using the array's index like I did in the messagebox. Btw, in the future put your .NET questions in the VB.NET forum. This forum is dedicated to previous versions of VB (4/5/6). Thanks! Enjoy! This post has been edited by Martyr2: 29 Oct, 2007 - 03:09 PM
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lwstory	RE: Making An Array Of A Class 29 Oct, 2007 - 03:12 PM Post #5
New D.I.C Head Joined: 29 Oct, 2007 Posts: 10 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	AWESOME! Thank you very much!
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denniswong288	RE: Making An Array Of A Class 12 May, 2009 - 07:07 PM Post #6
New D.I.C Head Joined: 12 May, 2009 Posts: 1	Hi Martyr2, This is truly excellent!! I'd been searching for this for a long time, and finally found it. Just really curious why there's no such articles on this. I strongly suggest that you put this up on your blog, or contribute to someone's blog, so it's an article/tutorial, instead of just a forum posting. Thanks once again! QUOTE(Martyr2 @ 29 Oct, 2007 - 03:08 PM) Ok, here is a good sample for you using your creatures. I created a class called "creatures" and filled the array of creatures with 10 creatures named MonsterMan0 - MonsterMan9. Just read the comments and follow along. CODE ' Create an array of creature classes Dim creatureArray(10) As creatures Dim i As Integer = 0 ' Load up the array with 10 creatures named MonsterMan0 - MonsterMan9 For i = 0 To 9 Dim mycreature As creatures = New creatures() ' Set his name and his age (all our monsters are clones, so they have the same age! (you could assign whatever data you wanted) mycreature.name = "MonsterMan" & i.ToString mycreature.age = 100 ' Store our copy of the creature into the array of creatures creatureArray(i) = mycreature Next ' Show the name of the 5th monster who is in slot 4 because the array starts at 0, so his name is MonsterMan4 MessageBox.Show("The 5th monster is named: " & creatureArray(4).name) I hope you get the idea now. We simply create an array of creatures and then we create a new creature in our loop and store it in the next slot of our array. At the end we have an array of ten creatures starting in slot 0 through slot 9. Then we can get at each creature by using the array's index like I did in the messagebox. Btw, in the future put your .NET questions in the VB.NET forum. This forum is dedicated to previous versions of VB (4/5/6). Thanks! Enjoy!
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staffsguy50	RE: Making An Array Of A Class 6 Jun, 2009 - 02:34 AM Post #7
New D.I.C Head Joined: 6 Jun, 2009 Posts: 1	nice but you need to put CODE Dim mycreature As creatures = New creatures() outside the fore next loop or it will dump the values every time it loops
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Martyr2	RE: Making An Array Of A Class 11 Jun, 2009 - 05:20 PM Post #8
Programming Theoretician Joined: 18 Apr, 2007 Posts: 7,243 Thanked: 820 times Expert In: C/C++, Java, VB, VB.NET, C#, PHP, Web Development, HTML & CSS, Javascript My Contributions	QUOTE(staffsguy50 @ 6 Jun, 2009 - 02:34 AM) nice but you need to put CODE Dim mycreature As creatures = New creatures() outside the fore next loop or it will dump the values every time it loops No actually it won't. You are creating a creatures class each time and then storing it in the array (which is outside the for loop). We are creating multiple creatures objects here and stashing it in the array. This is setup just fine.
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Cookiesliyr	RE: Making An Array Of A Class 12 Jun, 2009 - 09:15 AM Post #9
D.I.C Head Joined: 16 May, 2009 Posts: 102 Thanked: 6 times My Contributions	u guys mean array of objects i think ... cause in Java u can make an array of classes (don't asks me why) i think it is easier to overwrite them in that way.
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donvdp	RE: Making An Array Of A Class 19 Jun, 2009 - 12:07 AM Post #10
New D.I.C Head Joined: 19 Jun, 2009 Posts: 1	Then, what would be the correct wat of doing this in VB6 ? because i have tried this example in vb but it gives an error at compile time.
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