Hey, I am trying to reprogram my code into using Pointer Arrays, versus my old system which used an Array but in a different way. Before I defined my Class Array like this CSECTOR* cSector[MAX_SECTORS]; for (DWORD c=0; cNumPlanets = rand() % 4; // Set the stats for the different Planets for (c2=0; c2NumPlanets;c2++) { // Set our Planet Scale from .5 to 1.0 cSector->cPlanets[c2].PlanetSize = float((rand() % 22)/10); // Set the Planet population cSector->cPlanets[c2].Population = 0; // Set the Resouce Reserves cSector->cPlanets[c2].OreReserves = 0; cSector->cPlanets[c2].FuelReserves = 0; cSector->cPlanets[c2].FoodReserves = 0; // Set the Planet Type cSector->cPlanets[c2].ePlanetType = PLANETTYPE_ENUM(rand() % 8); } }

I think it the problem lies in that I don''t reset it before I use it. How do I reset the array. For instance, the array has 100 values. How do I make it 0 without using a for loop and decrementing through it?

Thanks ahead of time!

I'm not quite sure I understand what you're trying to do here, but either way I'll try and explain what I think you want .
If you what to use an array of pointers you should do something like:
CSECTOR **cSector = new CSECTOR *[MAX_SECTORS];
for(int i = 0; i < MAX_SECTORS; i++)
{
if(use(i)) // do we want to initialize this pointer?
{
cSector = new CSECTOR;<br> cSector->NumPlanets = …;<br> }<br> else<br> {<br> // nah, let this point to NULL<br> cSector = NULL;<br> }<br>}<br><br>/Andreas<br><br>Edited by - amag on January 8, 2001 5:51:01 AM

I don't quite understand what you mean by 'Pointer-array', but I believe I fixed your problem with getting erraneous and random values in your data.

      #define MAX_SECTORS 100CSECTOR* cSector;cSector = new CSECTOR[MAX_SECTORS];	for (DWORD c=0; c<MAX_SECTORS; c++)	{	srand((unsigned)time(NULL)); 	cSector[c].NumPlanets	= rand() % 4;	//Allocate the cPlanets	cSector[c].cPlanets = new CPLANET[cSector[c].NumPlanets]		// Set the stats for the different Planets		for (c2=0; c2<cSector->NumPlanets;c2++)		{		// Set our Planet Scale from .5 to 1.0		cSector[c].cPlanets[c2].PlanetSize = float(0.5 + (rand() % 6)/10);		// Set the Planet population		cSector[c].cPlanets[c2].Population = 0;		// Set the Resouce Reserves		cSector[c].cPlanets[c2].OreReserves = 0;		cSector[c].cPlanets[c2].FuelReserves = 0;		cSector[c].cPlanets[c2].FoodReserves = 0;		// Set the Planet Type		cSector[c].cPlanets[c2].ePlanetType = PLANETTYPE_ENUM(rand() % 8);		}}      

I think that should work. You did some strange things in your code, like accessing cPlanets without allocating them and incrementing the cSector-pointer outside of the loop...

You might have to click quote on this message to see exactly what I've written.
Good luck!

[EDIT]: Fixed code formatting

/Ksero

Mad Keith the V?? There are five of them??

Edited by - Ksero on January 8, 2001 6:00:42 AM