How do we design a container of objects all of which belong to some subclass which directly/indirectly inherits from a given parent class? Moreover, I would like to have functions that enable me to pick only objects of a certain class type from the container.
For example if the parent class is A and I have a hierarchy of classes that derive from it, we must have a container that can contain any class that exists in this hierarchy. Also, get_B() must be able to let me examine only those objects in this container that inherit (directly/indirectly) from class B (class B exists in the hierarchy rooted at A).
Preferably, we would like to avoid downcasting. Or even explicit typechecking of any sort.
I'm working on my first video game. So far I have a few classes in the game starting with the Game class which includes a list of GameObjects (another class). There are several classes that inherit from GameObjects used to implement things like bullets, explosions, various enemy types, etc.
The game essentially iterates through the list of GameObjects to update/render them. I would like to provide access to the Game's list of GameObjects inside another class (like the Bullet class) so I can put new objects on the list. For example, when a bullet hits, I want to add an explosion to the Game's GameObject list it can be updated/rendered.
How this should be setup? I was considering adding a pointer to the Game or GameObject list to the GameObject class (and methods to access it), but I was wondering if there is a better way to set this up?
I have been given a HW to write code for a payroll system. The base class would be Employee. There are four types of employees.
1 - Salaried (fixed salary, no matter the hours) 2 - Hourly (overtime [>40 hours] pays time and half) 3 - Commissioned (paid percentage of sales) 4 - Base-plus-commissioned (base salary + percentage of sales)
Also add a private data member birthDate (a Date object) and departmentCode, an int to class Employee.
1 - Is the following hierarchy that I'm visualizing right? Or is a change needed?
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2 - In hourly, what does in round brackets mean? What is meant by "pays time and half"?
3 - In base-plus-commissioned, is it required to take "base salary" from user or I just get salary from the salaried employee?
My program has a large version of this, where every leaf class is singleton, and pointers of the base class to represent each possible path are stored in a map during compile time. I have it working as follows:
But System::initializePrototypes() is constructing the map manually, and I want to use recursion somehow, because my hierarchy is much bigger than this. It's also easy to miss a path doing it the above way, and when new classes are added to the hierarchy, it will be a nightmare to update the map. So the ideal solution is recursion constructing the map perfectly--and when new classes are introduced, nothing needs to be added to System::initializePrototypes().
I got a mesh which has an edge with a specific transformation (translation + orientation). When this configuration / transformation is changed, its neighbours are to be updated. This structure is kept inside a tree so that when a root "frame" is passed to a method like UpdateHierachy, the mesh will recursively update itself.
If, I don't pass this method the root element, which is in my case, how do I change the rest of the structure? The reason to do this is because I want to say move the door, the windows and furniture will move along with it.
This has been bothering me for a while now, and I finally put together an example:
#include <iostream> #include <string> using namespace::std;
[Code]....
In the code above, the two classes hold pointers to each other, and that's fine but it doesn't seem right since C++ prefers to pass by reference. Yes, it can still do that (see testbox and testball) but even that seems odd to me because still you need to use pointer notation for the enclosed object. Am I the only one who feels this way, and should I just get over it? Or am I missing something that would allow an object to hold a reference?
So I'm writing an RPG and I'm in need of an inventory system. Of course as an relatively old member of the forum I know best than just come here and ask so I've already researched quite a bit and I've formulated this idea.
I've kind of conceptualized it like so: I'll have some sort of STL container of a unique_ptr of my base item class. There will be derived item classes. Taking advantage of polymorphism I can then call the new Derivedclass when inserting it in the STL container.
My questions are: What STL container should be used for the inventory(fixed sized)?
I have a pile of data, which i need to access frequently and fast. One entry consists of two unsigned ints, let`s call them source and destination.
One source can have several destinations, but this rarely ever happens. Several sources can have the same destination - this happens more frequently, but still scarcely.
Once the data is set up, it rarely ever changes - yet it should be possible to add or remove entries.
I now need to find all sources for a given destination, or all destinations for a given source.
The question: which stl container to choose?
I have tried a multimap, using the source as key. This works good for finding all d for a given s, but is inefficient in the other direction.
Do you think it would be more efficient to have two multimaps, sorted respectively by source and destination?
I am trying to come up with a way to make use of a "multilevel dynamic" container. I am parsing a file to grab some pieces of data. Lets say the first field of data I find I push into an array. At the same time lets I wish to create 2 cascaded sublevels. So an element in Modules is a pointer to the Types vector associated with that module and each element in Types is a pointer to a vector of Data. This concept should be similar to memory paging.
Obviously this becomes very hair quickly so it is obvious that I need to dynamically create and destroy vectors (if I do it this way). Should I just create pointers using the new operator?
Here is some of my code if it is even worthwhile to read:
If you take the first one, "max_logvar" is a module so everything between < and > is associated with that module.
symb is unimportant for now.
then "proterm" is a "module type" so then module now needs a module type container but I may have more than one of those.
so then I break it down by "Input" and "Output" where each of those can have the integer values (just in an array where each position will be set) that are in the fields to the right.
I need to create an array container with the same structure as double myA [100][100];. But I cannot declare it as array<double, 100, 100> myA; however I do need this container for its format. How can I make it work.
i built a programming language called jade that right now can only print. i want to add variables to it however. I am going to use a modified bajarne stroustrop calculator to handle expressions (ie will now include string manipulations and such), but I want to build a var class into the program to make it easier for the program. i want variables to act like python variabes, and arrays to act like python associative arrays. Ive scoured different containers, but they only work if the variable isnt an array in my language, because it will only have one type. the only thing i can come up with is a union and 4 overloaded = operators (for bool, int, double, and string) is there a better way to do this?
Lexer.cpp: In member function 'void Lexer::PrintSource()': Lexer.cpp:29:42: error: 'struct std::pair<const std::basic_string<char>, std::vector<std::basic_string<char> > >' has no member named 'begin' for(auto SubIterator = Iterator->begin(); SubIterator != Iterator->end(); SubIterator++) ^ Lexer.cpp:29:76: error: 'struct std::pair<const std::basic_string<char>, std::vector<std::basic_string<char> > >' has no member named 'end' for(auto SubIterator = Iterator->begin(); SubIterator != Iterator->end(); SubIterator++) ^
I want to find all instances of a substring mysub in array container myarr and replace each occurrence of mysub with empty string " ". To do that, I'd like to use for loop with search algorithm.
Code below:
p=array iterator for ( p=search(myarr.cbegin(),myarr.end(), mysub.begin(),mysub.end(); p!=myarr.end(); p=search(p,myarr.end(),mysub.begin(),mysub.end() ); {
I need a "meaningful" way of accessing a table, the column is representing Err magnitude, and the row is representing Rate magnitude. For each error magnitude and rate magnitude, i define an action magnitude, which is the contains of the table. For example,
Code: int matrix[10][10]; int Action1 = matrix[0][0]; int Action2 = matrix[0][1];
However, i need a better way of getting matrix[0][0], row and col itself is meaningless. I want to access the table like
"Action magnitude" = matrix["Rate magnitude 1"]["Err magnitude 2"]; using a string instead of int id.
How do you find, when you first introduced with say some of the STL container, function or algorithms, what are its requirements? I mean,
1. what operators object should have for specific container? 2. what function args and type it should return for a algo? 3. when extending some container like with custom allocator, char_traits...and what not, what methods should be overridden? What work should they do?
When using an iterator with a std container (list / vector etc) sometimes it's possible to modify the container (e.g. delete an item) yet still carry on using the iterator - whereas in other cases, modifying the container immediately invalidates any open iterators on it. Is there an easy way to know which containers fall into which category? (or does it vary from one compiler to another?)
