Using new classes

#1 Heya,

Hope I can help ya, so here goes. This won't work because whenever you do an "::onAdd()", you need the object which is being added to be a datablock or a datablock type. Yeah... examples...
This is correct:

function RTSUnitData::onAdd(%this, %obj)
{
   echo("RTSUnitData::onAdd called.");
}

The above works because "RTSUnitData" is a type of datablock...

Now for another example - This is assuming that "UnitBaseBlock" is an existing datablock...

function UnitBaseBlock::onAdd(%this, %obj)
{
   echo("UnitBaseBlock::onAdd called.");
}

THIS works because "UnitBaseBlock" is an existing object. Since "UnitBaseBlock" is part of "RTSUnitData" one might think there would be a conflict, but there isn't (thank god...) which allows you to make specific code for that unit type :)

Now that I've finished my tiny little lesson, to make what you want work you would maybe put an if statement inside the RTSUnitData on add function, or write a custom onAdd function for each of the units. Hope I helped some :)

EDIT: Ah well after re-reading your post i figured out what you wanted *sob* so here's whats your problem. You're calling the getPosition, but you're calling it on the %this variable. For onAdd, two variables are passed... (Thought it was three... oh well...) %this and %obj are the two variables. Lets hope this is right: %obj is the player, %obj.client is the client, and %this is... I dunno :) I'm pretty sure you would call "%obj.getPosition" - someone correct me...

#2 Hehe. thanks for trying though.

that data block thing does make alot of sense. Im going to try it that way and see if i can get it to work...

i think my original post was kinda hard to understand. it was late and i had almost pulled all of my hair out.

just to restate it more simply:

I know it IS using the onAdd function. I just don't know why it wont use the getPosition(). i also tried the getDataBlock() funciton
it wont use that one either. It does, however, use other functions like getID() (but it does it wierd, there are 6 rifleman and getID() gives
me the number 53 6 times. insead of their unique handles. unless i dont understand how that one is supposed to work.)

anyhow. i guess ill go wrench on it for a bit..

any help is much appreciated.

#3 The error does say what the problem is. You are trying to call the getPosition() method on a dataBlock, and not an object instance.

Object riflemanBlock(53) riflemanBlock -> NPC -> RTSUnitData -> PlayerData -> ShapeBaseData -> GameBaseData -> SimDataBlock

In your function, %this is the ID for the dataBlock, you need to add a %obj variable to the header, and use it with .getPosition().