Unfortunately, what you want to do in its current state is impossible.
Why? The preprocessor converts "MAX_CLASS" to a string literal "5" for
example before the compiler takes a stab at it. The compiler is able to
allocated fixed memory on the stack because the value is constant. When
MAX_CLASS is a variable, memory must come from the heap, and you must do
all the assignment yourself.
Therefore, your structure will need to be something like this, now:
struct skill_type
{
char * name;
sh_int **skill_level;
sh_int **rating;
And all your skill loads will have to dynamically assign skill_level and
rating. That means you can no longer use a flat const skill table,
sorry. (Or, at least, it can be flat except for the variable aspects
which will have to be located elsewhere, i.e. a read/write skills.dat
file. Otherwise how will adding a classe magically transform 5 ints for
skill_level to 6?) I wrote a dynamic Skill Builder/Loader in C++ for a
version of ROM I have if you'd like to take a look. It writes/reads
skills from disk on boot, but it's a little hackish as I never finished
it.
-- Jeremy
Tristan M wrote:
i think i worded that subject correctly...anyway, what i want to do
is load my classes from a file. ive put together my own class editor
which works perfectly(prolly littered with memory leaks i dont kno
about tho:p) except that now that classes load from a file, i want to
change all those MAX_CLASS's around to maxClass, which is set when
load_class is executed during the boot, and changed if classes are
created online...so for example in merc.h:
...
...
struct skill_type
{
char * name; /* Name of skill */
sh_int skill_level[MAX_CLASS]; <--- change this to [maxClass]
sh_int rating[MAX_CLASS];<--- change this to [maxClass]
SPELL_FUN * spell_fun; /* Spell pointer (for spells) */
sh_int target; /* Legal targets */
sh_int minimum_position; /* Position for caster / user */
...
...
so i changed the [MAX_CLASS] 's to [maxClass] just to see what would
happen and this came out:
rom24\src\merc.h(1838) : error C2057: expected constant expression
rom24\src\merc.h(1839) : error C2057: expected constant expression
rom24\src\merc.h(1839) : error C2229: struct 'skill_type' has an
illegal zero-sized array
rom24\src\merc.h(1840) : error C2229: struct 'skill_type' has an
illegal zero-sized array
and i probably sound like a newb asking this, but thats ok.
