[Adonthell-devel] items & inventory

[Thorsten Riess]

Hi everybody,

I looked into the preliminary code for the items and combat system from 
the road_to_0-4 CVS branch and I think I understood how the stuff 
basically works. And I have to say, I like the approach of combining 
Python and C++ :-)
The item_base class looks fine for me (so far), and I thought about 
creating a inventory class where item_base objects are stored. Each 
character_base then has an associated inventory object. Therefore it is 
reasonable to store the amount of money that a character posseses in 
that inventory class as well.
The inventory class has member functions that allow to add/remove 
items, add/subtract money, iterate through the inventory and move items 
from one inventory to another.
Of course the character_base has to hold a pointer of the character's 
inventory.

So we have the dependencies
character_base --> inventory_base --> item_base

I think there should also be pointers to the respective parents in the 
item_base/inventory_base classes.
Well, tell me what you think :-)

PS: some general note on the CVS code: the _only_ versions of 
autoconf/automake/libtool that worked for me were autoconf 
2.13/automake 1.4 and libtool 1.3.4... especially newer libtool 
versions seem to be a problem. Just to let you know, maybe there should 
be some hint on the webpage...

Thorsten.