Issue accessing struct in Game class

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[LuisR14]

hi again , why not just set Me in the Game constructor?

well anyways, you'd have to do that in the Winmain function in windows.cpp, after the Game object has been created , you can just use your public changecoords function directly instead of using that middle-man function SETCOORDS lol

[Pindrought]

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[LuisR14]

I tried changing my line to theGame.changecoords instead of Game.changecoords, but i'm getting error C2065: 'theGame' : undeclared identifier in main.cpp.

yea, if you changed the code you had above to this it wouldn't work since the function doesn't have a theGame, for that you'd have to pass the instance that was created in windows.cpp

TL;DR Can I not make a public function outside of the game class in main.cpp that can call a function in the game class (theGame) created in Windows.cpp?

yes you can, but like i said above, the function would need an instance of the class passed to it

pretty much you can't edit a class since it's like a template, you need an instance of the class to be able to view, edit and execute its public data (unless you declare some of its data as static)

and also you can't really run code outside of the winmain( or main ) function, unless the the (win)main function called it to allow for that function to run its commands (not sure if this here i explained clearly lol)

(win)main calls functions, then functions might call other functions or just do some instructions then they all return back to (win)main (which is when the app then exits)

[Pindrought]

Nvm got it figured out tyvm LuisR14

[LuisR14]

lol yea, ClientThread would require a param of LPVOID to work with CreateThread

now to point out 2 things:

// The server will send a struct to the client
// containing message and ID
// But send only accepts a char as buffer parameter
// so here we need to recv a char buffer and then
// we copy the content of this buffer to our struct
if(recv(sConnect, buffer, sizeof(sbuffer), NULL))

you can just use the struct instead of needing the char buffer , just have to pass its address and cast it to char* like so:

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    recv(sConnect, (char*)&sbuffer, sizeof(sbuffer), NULL);

if you're not gonna use the HANDLE that gets returned by the CreateThread function then you should close it like so :p

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    CloseHandle(CreateThread(NULL, NULL, (LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE) ClientThread, NULL, NULL, NULL));

(closing the handle won't destroy the thread)

edit: aslo, dam, deleting all your posts' message, now this thread is useless to read lol