I want to start writing an engine the proper way. After looking around, I found the site for the oxygen engine (http://www.mysticgd.com) I think this is definately how I want to write my engine. The way it''s described, it seems like I''m going to have to learn a lot more about this inheritance stuff. I think it''s written such that there is a base class and all classes inherit from it? Is this right? Anyway, could I get some information, links, tutorials, etc. on inheritance, proper game engine coding, using DLLs to "plug in" new effects/features, etc.? Anthing that will help is welcome and greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Here''s an example of the kind of stuff I''d like to know. How could I make a class that was more versatile? Like a linked list class except the data type was a struct, and you could write several different structs for use with the Linked List.

for versiatility, use templates in c++.

templates are just like using variables, except the aspect that''s variable is the type of variables.


if u want, i can e u my c++ ll template, it can create a ll of absolutly any type of data, be it intrinsic, simple, a struct, or an object


basically, if u can write a ll for a single intrinsic type, just change it to a template and replace all of the original intrinsic w/ the template type, and you''ll be good to go (as long as you don''t invoke wrong constructors/destructors etc).

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A template is really a good idea. You may want to look at my Linked List template, which can be used as easily as follows:

  #include "TFXQueue.h" class CMyClass {  public:    int a;    int b;     CMyClass() {    ~CMyClass() {};     void DoSomething(void) { printf("Hello World!\n"); }}; Queue<int>      g_pIntList;Queue<CMyClass> g_pClassList; g_pIntList.Add(12);g_pIntList.Add(34);g_pClassList.Add(new CMyClass()); g_pClassList.Reset(); while(CMyClass *pClass = g_pClassList.Cycle())  pClass->DoSomething(); g_pClassList.FlushAndDelete();  

of course it will work with structs and any other kind of data, too!

-Markus-

For all intents and purposes, I''d like to use this thread as a resource. Therefore I''d like to add this link to it in case anyone else is doing the same thing.

http://www.gnacademy.org/uu-gna/text/cc/Tutorial/tutorial.html

Great Object Oriented Programming information here.