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Question by treep78 · Feb 21, 2012 at 10:24 PM · variablesclasses

How to reassign a variable's class

Hi, I've got an instance where I need to change the class of a variable so that it could be one of two classes. How would I do this?

 var aVar;
 var aNum:int;
 
 if(aNumb == 1)
 {
   // aVar gets class 'fish'
 }
 else if(aNumb == 2)
 {
   // aVar gets class 'bird'
 }
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Answer by DaveA · Feb 21, 2012 at 11:45 PM

Make a common superclass, like 'animal' and derive 'fish' and 'bird' from 'animal' Then if the var is of type 'animal' it should accept 'fish' or 'bird'

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 class Animal ( can add 'extends MonoBehaviour' here if it would be such a thing)
 {
   var legs : int; // for example
 }
 
 class Bird implements Animal
 {
  Bird() { legs = 2; } // constructor to initialize whatever
 }
 
 class Fish implements Animal
 {
  Fish() { legs = 0; }
 }
 
 var f : Fish = new Fish();
 var b : Bird = new Bird();
 var a : Animal;
 a = f;
 a = b;
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When I put 'implements' it gives an error and asks if I meant 'extends' does that make sense? I'm using Java Script if it helps.

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It WOR$$anonymous$$ED! Thank you so much for your help!

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It doesn't work for me. Did you change something in the code that DaveA provided (apart changing "implements" to "extends")?

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