Would classes be good for this?

[Austin J]

I want to implement an item system into a text-based game, are classes suitable for this?

[AbstractionAnon]

That's not much to go on, but in general, yes.

[LB]

I hope by "text-based" you mean "using a graphics library like SFML to draw text to the screen myself" and not "I'm using the console because I can't figure out how to use the graphics libraries and I didn't realize I could ask for help on this great forum"

[Sir Mr Bman]

Classes for this are completely suitable.
Lets say I made a game where you would memorize flash cards, then input them back into the computer.
I could make a class hat takes the users input, then checks to make sure its correct. If it is correct, it sets a variable (int CorrectYesNo) to 1 for yes or 0 for no.
Hope that helped :D
//Bman

[LB]

@Sir Mr Bman: that is actually a mis-use of classes. You should not use classes for that ;)

[ne555]

Sure, let's use a graphic library to print text.

[LB]

You can't print text with a graphics library.

[Zephilinox]

I was lurking and I just had to post, I laughed out loud at L B's reply.

[ne555]

$ dict print
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:

To output, even if to a screen. If a hacker says that a program 'printed
a message', he means this; if he refers to printing a file, he probably
means it in the conventional sense of writing to a hardcopy device
(compounds like 'print job' and 'printout', on the other hand, always
refer to the latter). This very common term is likely a holdover from the
days when printing terminals were the norm, perpetuated by programming
language constructs like {C}'s printf(3). See senses 1 and 2 of {tty}.

[eraggo]

Classes are more than useful for that:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>

using namespace std;

class Item 
{
private:
	int weight;
	string name;
public:
	Item(int, string);
	void useItem();
};

Item::Item(int w, string n)
{
	weight=w;
	name=n;
}

void Item::useItem()
{
	cout << name << " was used\n";
	cout << weight << " mass unit was removed from inventory\n";
}

int main()
{
	Item sword(33, "Saber");
	Item armor(123, "Glowing Armor of Usefulness");

	sword.useItem();
	armor.useItem();

	return 0;
}

Maybe using some class to handle possible inventory would help too :)

[TheGrayWolf]

You may want to have different types of swords/armors/potions/etc. in which case, you can inherit from the Item class.

[eraggo]

You may want to have different types of swords/armors/potions/etc. in which case, you can inherit from the Item class.

I know; just made short example

[Austin J]

Thanks guys, and L B, I'm still getting just standard c++ down, I didn't think it would be a good idea to jump into something like SDL or Allegro yet. Chances are I'm not even going to finish this, I'm doing it entirely for learning.