[Gambas-user] gb3: converting structures to classes

[nando]

I am doing the same thing.
Using class in place of structures.
Then arrays or collections of the classes.
Works great!


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From: Kevin Fishburne <kevinfishburne at ...1887...>
To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:39:43 -0500
Subject: [Gambas-user] gb3: converting structures to classes

> I tried to find the previous email suggesting this and couldn't, neither 
> is there an equivalent wiki article describing class creation as there 
> is with structure creation, so I'm asking here.
> 
> I need to know how to convert structure declarations to class 
> declarations, and if there are any obvious syntactical differences in 
> declaration, assignment as properties to other classes, or assigning 
> actual data. I'm using structures like this:
> 
> Public Struct Client_Animation
>    Animating As Boolean
>    OrientationDefault As Single
>    OrientationBegin As Single
>    OrientationEnd As Single
>    OrientationCurrent As Single
>    OrientationVelocity As Single
>    PositionDefaultX As Single
>    PositionDefaultY As Single
>    PositionBeginX As Single
>    PositionBeginY As Single
>    PositionEndX As Single
>    PositionEndY As Single
>    PositionCurrentX As Single
>    PositionCurrentY As Single
>    PositionVelocityX As Single
>    PositionVelocityY As Single
> End Struct
> 
> Public Struct Client_Gear
>    Orientation As Single
>    Scale As Single
>    SizeCap As Short
>    SizeStem As Short
>    Skin As Short
>    Type As Short
>    Animation As Struct Client_Animation
> End Struct
> 
> The logic behind the change is wanting these (numerous) structure 
> declarations to be contained within their own module for organizational 
> purposes and to be accessible between modules. It was suggested in 
> previous emails that this was possible using classes instead of 
> structures. Thanks everyone.
> 
> -- 
> Kevin Fishburne
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