Don't quite understand Structs

[MagnaGuard]

Well, maybe I'm too young to try to learn this. However, what exactly are they used for? They just seem like globals to me. Also what spells should I try to make using struts? Thanks.

 

[kingkingyyk3]

Struct is like a class and member in it are students. Struct is globals with arrays. Each time it called, it will automatically generate a unused array for globals. Struct is for us easy to make stuffs. With struct, you no longer need attach handles to timer. You only need to attach the integer to timer. Hehe, i only 15 years old and i think i am to late to learn it. ;p

 

[MagnaGuard]

What spell should I try to make using them ?

 

[kingkingyyk3]

Spell involving trigger and timer.

 

[SerraAvenger]

I don't like the "class/students" explanation...
I usually do the "furniture" metaphor : D
Like in:
The struct's class is "chair".
The struct's instance is, for example the chair you are currently sitting on - curChair.
The struct's members do either describe the struct's instance, or the struct's class. For example:

curChair.size, curChair.color, curChair.cost, curChair.model //-> describe instance
chair.count (the number of chairs), chair.class ("chair") //-> describe class

The struct also has "methods", stuff that either returns information about the struct or changes the information contained in the struct.

call curChair.changeColor( "red" )
call curChair.reduceCost( 15 )
set color = curChair.getColor() // "red"

And for sure there are also methods for the struct's class, like chair.create() (gets a new chair)

What spell to make?
I wouldn't make a spell with a struct right at the beginning.
I'ld make a struct that contains info about a player, like their name, the number of units they have and how much gold they had at the time the struct was created.

Because in order to make a spell work with structs, you need some attachment systems, which you should learn lateron. Players need no attachment systems as you can easily use their player index as array index and store the struct in the index.
like

globals
  playerinfo array PlayerInfo
endglobals

//
    call BJDebugMsg( PlayerInfo[ 0 ].name ) // should display player 0 (red)'s name
//

hf and good luck, davey

 

[Jesus4Lyf]

local MyStruct structVar=MyStruct.create() --> create returns an integer which is then stored in structVar.
structVar.field --> returns MyStruct_Field[structVar] (loads from an array)

That's all it does. Integers and arrays. It's a way of associating a bunch of values.

It's nice for attaching a bunch of values to an object because you only have to attach one integer.