Entity Attributes

[Seven]

no worries. I sincerely appreciate the conversation. Everyone has a different methodology, and chatting like this helps us both. I was able to rebuild my property manager system slightly based on our talk here. I still am not sure that I like the lack of strong type checking though.... anyhow, back to the grindstone for me. I will see you next time.

[sudi]

well i kinda liked ur idea about the set/get thing. so i decided to add this feature. Btw my system has and had strong type checking. Its done internaly with the typeid().name() function. that way i made sure that both classes are of the same type. anyway my new system supports the following and is really awesome.

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class Test : public AppFrame::SAttributeContainer
{
public:
    Test(void)
    {
        Health = 100;
        Power = 100.f;
        Bind("Health", &Test::setHealth, &Test::getHealth, &Test::setHealthStr, &Test::getHealthStr);
        Bind("Power", &Power);
    }

protected:
    int Health;
    float Power;
    AppFrame::string getHealthStr(void)
    {
        char buffer[128];
        sprintf(buffer, "%i", Health);
        return buffer;
    }
    bool setHealthStr(const AppFrame::string& health)
    {
        sscanf(health.c_str(), "%i", &Health);
        return true;
    }

    bool getHealth(int& health)
    {
        health = Health;
        return true;
    }
    bool setHealth(const int& health)
    {
        Health = health;
        return true;
    }
};

int main()
{
    int value = 0;
    float value1 = 0.f;
    Test t;

    t.getValue("Health", value);
    printf("Health: %i\n", value);

    t.setValue("Health", "35");
    t.getValue("Health", value);
    printf("Health: %i\n", value);

    t.setValue("Health", 1);
    t.getValue("Health", value);
    printf("Health: %i\n", value);

    t.setValue("Health", "2");
    printf("HealthString: %s\n", t.getValue("Health").c_str());

    printf("--------------------------------------------------------------\n");

    t.getValue("Power", value1);
    printf("Power: %f\n", value1);

    t.setValue("Power", "54.02");
    t.getValue("Power", value1);
    printf("Power: %f\n", value1);

    t.setValue("Power", 87.010f);
    t.getValue("Power", value1);
    printf("Power: %f\n", value1);

    t.setValue("Power", "11.50");
    printf("PowerString: %s\n", t.getValue("Power").c_str());
}

The user has the choice to either set his own Set/Get methods or to use the premade ones.

[Seven]

it looks very good. Ours are very similar , the only difference being that I need some specialized ability due to the way that the editor will use the data. very nice though, lots of folks should be interested in what you have done. i look forward to seeing where all you head with it.

[sudi]

Awesome i just replaced my old Attribute system with the one i just showed.
Just had to make some name changes and it works so perfect. Its double the speed of the old system. (well microseconds...) not really noticeable