Game Development Community

Display "Inheritance" from console?

by Jake Callery · in Torque Game Engine · 02/09/2008 (10:56 am) · 10 replies

Hey guys,

I vaguely remember that I could print to the console window through script where a particular
definition was being used. For instance:
Object (1539) Player -> ShapeBase -> GameBase -> SceneObject -> NetObject -> SimObject

So here this means that the player is part of shapeBase which is part of GameBase, etc...

Is there a good way to dump that info about a particular object in the world?

Thanks!

Jake

**Edited for Spelling**
NextNext Thread
PrevPrevious Thread
More from Torque Game Engine


Associate Orion Elenzil
Real Life Plus
#1
02/09/2008 (11:16 am)
Wow,
v. strange that you should ask this question,
as i just yesterday submitted a resource which does exactly that.
actually it does more than that,
it dumps the inheritance and the methods from each inherited class.
here is the pending-approval resource.

if you would like a function to just dump the inheritance w/o the methods,
that would be easy to write. let me know and i'll add it.

Associate Orion Elenzil
Real Life Plus
#2
02/09/2008 (11:18 am)
In case it's not clear from the resource, in your case you would do 1539.dumpMethods(),
and you'd get something like:
==>$player.dumpMethods();
8942-Player--c-orion
 33 Methods from SimObject:
  addToAVPlayerNameList                   ()
  allowInstanceMethods                    ()
  etc..
  etc..
 10 Methods from NetObject:
  clearScopeToClient                      ()
  getGhostID                              ()
  etc..
 33 Methods from SceneObject:
  getDCObject                             ()
  getForwardVector                        ()
  etc..
  2 Methods from GameBase:
  getDataBlock                            ()
  setDataBlock                            ()
 99 Methods from ShapeBase:
  AddInfectPoints                         ()
  applyDamage                             ()
  etc..
235 Methods from Player:
  activeSkusCallback                      ()
  addBuddy                                ()
  etc..

Torque 3D Owner Jake Callery
#3
02/09/2008 (11:39 am)
Oh excellent! Thanks very much!

I am currently just looking for the inheritance w/o the methods, but this is sweet!

I'm sure I can manage modifying your resource to do just inheritance.
However if you have the time and motivation I'm not going to tell you to not add it :)

Thanks again!

Jake

Associate Orion Elenzil
Real Life Plus
#4
02/09/2008 (12:03 pm)
Jake -

found the stock method you were originally thinking of:
%simObject.getNamespaceList()

Associate Orion Elenzil
Real Life Plus
#5
02/09/2008 (12:05 pm)
.. woops,
it looks like that's not stock. :D

here's the code for it; i put it in simBase.cc, near the console method dump():
ConsoleMethod(SimObject, getNamespaceList, const char*, 2, 2, "obj.getNamespaceList()")
{
   Namespace *ns = object->getNamespace();
   if (!ns)
      return "";

   return getNamespaceList(ns);
}

Torque 3D Owner Jake Callery
#6
02/09/2008 (12:09 pm)
Really fantastic! Thanks ever so much! I really appreciate the time!

Jake

Torque 3D Owner Jake Callery
#7
02/09/2008 (12:17 pm)
Well, after doing some more digging with what you have sent, it looks like there is more to getNameSpaceList than what you stated above. However I did find

%obj.dumpClassHierarchy()

That seems to do exactly what I remembered:
==>1456.dumpClassHierarchy();
StaticShape ->
ShapeBase ->
GameBase ->
SceneObject ->
NetObject ->
SimObject ->


Thanks again for looking into this so much!

Jake

Associate Fyodor -bank- Osokin
Dedicated Logic
#8
02/09/2008 (12:18 pm)
%obj.dumpClassHierarchy();
will display the list of all parent classes.
Stock simobject method.
But Orion's function is a good alternative :)

edit: hehe :) a bit late, but anyway :)

Associate Orion Elenzil
Real Life Plus
#9
02/09/2008 (12:22 pm)
Heh, sorry jake - it's difficult some times for me to post stuff from our codebase, as it's drifted fairly far from stock,
but it sounds like you got what you need!
glad to have helped a bit.

Torque 3D Owner Jake Callery
#10
02/09/2008 (12:33 pm)
@Orion - not a problem at all I totally understand :) Thanks for the help!

@Bank - Thanks much for the reply! Its crazy how much of a difference 1 minute makes :)