Question by castor · Dec 06, 2013 at 04:47 PM · list loop class children mirror

How to store children of a class inside that class

So I can't figure out the logical way of doing this.

In my project when a character talks to another one he starts a dialog. (class actorDialog).

At the end of that dialog I load the "children"as possible answers and display them for the player to chose. Then it plays that answer and so on.

Now my problem is how to actually write this. This is the class I created for it:

 class actorDialog {
     var title : String;                    //GUI title to select it
     var isAvailable : boolean;            //Is this dialog unlocked?
     var script :  List.<ScriptStep>;    //Text for the dialog
     var total : int;                    //How many types this dialog was selected
     var children : List.<actorDialog>;    //Possible replies to the dialog
 }

Now my problem is the actorDialog.children, since its a List of items of the same class inside the class itself. It makes an eternal loop that slows down Unity and I imagine it just doesn't make sense to have it that way.

Any other suggestions on how to go about it? This seems like the most logical way for me but probably I'm wrong...

Any help very appreciated!

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Spinnernicholas · Dec 06, 2013 at 04:51 PM 0

There shouldn't be an infinite loop there. It's a tree structure, so depending on your code, it will run until you hit all leaves(nodes without children) and then stop. How deep is your tree?

castor · Dec 06, 2013 at 05:01 PM 0

That's what I would like, exactly like a tree structure! But where do I define how deep is supposed to go? (I'm imagining maybe 5 levels). I also realized that once I wrote this class, Unity became very slow doing Undo/Redo (taking about 10 secs) and the file size for the scene.unity increased about 4 times making me thing I shouldn't even be doing this or maybe it's supposed to be written in a different way?

Spinnernicholas · Dec 06, 2013 at 05:07 PM 0

You don't set how deep the tree is. It just depends on how deep you build it.

Spinnernicholas · Dec 06, 2013 at 05:10 PM 0

It sounds like you only need the current children at any given moment. Where is your code to fill the children list?

castor · Dec 06, 2013 at 05:14 PM 0

This is what I would write as a code for it:

This would be the full class:

 class actorDialog {
     var title : String;                    //GUI title to select it
     var isAvailable : boolean;            //Is this dialog unlocked?
     var script :  List.<ScriptStep>;    //Text for the dialog
     var total : int;                    //How many types this dialog was selected
     var children : List.<actorDialog>;    //Possible replies to the dialog
 
     function actorDialog (script :  List.<ScriptStep>, actorDialogList : List.<actorDialog>){
         this.title = script[0].textLine;
         this.script = script;
         
         actorDialogList.Add (this);
     }
 }

And then on Start() I would write this:

 startDialogWife = new actorDialog (obj$$anonymous$$anager.actorPlayer, dialog$$anonymous$$anager.startDialogWife);
     startDialogWife.children.Add(askHowSheIsFeeling);
     startDialogWife.children.Add(askAboutWatchWife);
     startDialogWife.children.Add(askAboutHerPast);

and maybe some of them would have sub children.

But what I mean is, even before writing any of these extras, JUST writing the class makes Unity slowdown a lot.

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