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Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property?

Fri, 10 February 2012 22:58

Daniel

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Most game objects currently inherit from item. Item has settable mass and position. However it makes no sense to set the mass of fleet, star and minefield and only fleet, star and minefield have a position.

Perhaps the root of the object tree should be a 'gameObject' which has a name, key and type? It could have a 'mappableObject' descendent which adds the position property (which descends to fleet, star and minefield). And a design descendent which adds the cost property (which descends to component and Hull)?

This needs a good bit more thought about what properties are added at each point in the object hierarchy. It would be better to sort this out properly, rather than throw exceptions when setting inappropriate properties, so any issues can be found by static type checking.

Not sure if doing this now would confuse Aeglos' effort to re-write the order system?

Have fun.

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		Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: ekolis on Tue, 07 February 2012 14:51
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Daniel on Wed, 08 February 2012 10:00
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: ekolis on Fri, 10 February 2012 15:05
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Aeglos on Fri, 10 February 2012 18:37
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Daniel on Fri, 10 February 2012 22:58
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Aeglos on Sat, 11 February 2012 00:16
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Daniel on Sat, 11 February 2012 16:47
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: ekolis on Sun, 12 February 2012 15:50
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Aeglos on Sun, 12 February 2012 02:28
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Aeglos on Sun, 12 February 2012 23:28
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Daniel on Mon, 13 February 2012 02:31
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Aeglos on Tue, 14 February 2012 10:41
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Daniel on Tue, 14 February 2012 12:02
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Daniel on Tue, 14 February 2012 13:32
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: ekolis on Tue, 14 February 2012 15:28
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Daniel on Wed, 29 February 2012 02:17
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Aeglos on Wed, 15 February 2012 01:24
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Aeglos on Tue, 28 February 2012 03:27
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Aeglos on Sat, 10 March 2012 23:20
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Daniel on Tue, 13 March 2012 15:19
		Re: Item.Mass - should this be an abstract property? By: Aeglos on Tue, 13 March 2012 18:39

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