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Class, Superclass, Inheritance

by Diogo Rios · in Torque Game Builder · 06/26/2008 (10:48 am) · 4 replies

Hello

I am confused as to how these work and couldnt find relevant info about it.

I got an object with class FoodHouse and Superclass House.

function House::onMouseEnter(%this, %modifier, %worldPosition, %clicks)
{
echo("House");
}

function FoodHouse::onMouseEnter(%this, %modifier, %worldPosition, %clicks)
{
echo("FoodHouse");
}


I think when mouse enters i should have 2 messages: House and FoodHouse but instead i get only FoodHouse. This doesnt seem right, any thoughts?
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Associate James Ford
Sickhead Games
#1
06/26/2008 (11:19 am)
Its like a class hierarchy in C++ where the method is a virtual. If the child defines a method it overrides the parent's. If you want to call both you do can...
function FoodHouse::onMouseEnter(....)
{
   Parent::onMouseEnter(...);
   echo("FoodHouse");
}

Torque Owner Diogo Rios
#2
06/26/2008 (11:35 am)
Once again James, you ve been a great help. what can i say, if you keep helping me as you do, when our game comes out ill have to give you some credit :P

Torque Owner Kevin James
#3
06/26/2008 (3:45 pm)
James is a sick programmer.

Associate James Ford
Sickhead Games
#4
06/26/2008 (5:39 pm)
Haha thanks guys.

One other thing, when you use the "namespace"::"method" calling convention %this will NOT be passed automatically, so make sure you explicitly pass it to the Parent.

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