Creating New Objects! (but not what you may think)

[Befall]

Okay, I don't mean creating objects like "int a = 1;" kinda thing. Here's what I'm curious about:

What code or process could I use to make it possible to create/name objects? For example:

cout << "Input your character's name: ";
cin >> name;

*new object which is named by the cin* = string 'name'

OR even going as far as creating classes, to allow player.strength, player.rage, you know, for easy organization.

I could use this in the simplest explanation possible, but if you know where I can just look at a site for good help, that'd be equally good.

Thanks everyone!

[GCDEF]

You can't give variables names at runtime. You can use a map to map your object to a string or whatever if you need to reference them that way.

I don't understand the second part of your question.

[Peter_B]

You might want to look at using a Factory - try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_method_pattern

[Befall]

Okay, I'll try to be a wee bit less complicated than my main post.

Say you wanted to create a character. The character has three stats: Strength, Agility, and Wisdom. You also can name him.

So, is there something I can use to fill out a class like this:


class Character
{
public:
int strength;
int agility;
int Wisdom;
};


See what I mean? Having the ability to make an infinite amount of different, user-defined instances of a class. Or simply objects. If I'm making any sense whatsoever haha.

[GCDEF]

Sure. Just use new to create as many as you want. Overload the constructor to take the appropriate arguments. As I said in the first reply, if you want to be able to refer to them by some kind of name, use a map to map the pointers to the string name.

[Peter_B]

Okay, I'll try to be a wee bit less complicated than my main post.

Say you wanted to create a character. The character has three stats: Strength, Agility, and Wisdom. You also can name him.

So, is there something I can use to fill out a class like this:


class Character
{
public:
int strength;
int agility;
int Wisdom;
};


See what I mean? Having the ability to make an infinite amount of different, user-defined instances of a class. Or simply objects. If I'm making any sense whatsoever haha.

Why not just make a constructor for your class, then make instances of it using new?

[laserlight]

Think about how you post on this forum: you have some post content, maybe a post title, timestamp, etc.

Basically, you provide a user interface. Maybe the user has this "character management panel" where characters can be created. You might take the user input and create a Character object, perhaps to be stored in some container, and maybe also stored in a database.

[Befall]

Why not just make a constructor for your class, then make instances of it using new?

Hehe... I'm kind of a giant n00b at programming. So I suppose I'll have to look into what a constructor is, because I'm oblivious. :P

[Lindley]

I think what the OP is looking for is STL collections, such as std::map and std::vector.

[GCDEF]

Hehe... I'm kind of a giant n00b at programming. So I suppose I'll have to look into what a constructor is, because I'm oblivious. :P

That's a fundamental concept to the language and to OOP. Unfortunately there's a pretty high learning curve.

[Speedo]

Okay, I'll try to be a wee bit less complicated than my main post.

Say you wanted to create a character. The character has three stats: Strength, Agility, and Wisdom. You also can name him.

You could either set up a system which matched strings (names) with Character objects, like a std::map, or simply make the name just another attribute of the Character.