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Greaseddog
Greaseddog

Reputation: 15

Creating objects and storing them in an array

I'm very new to Javascript, and what I'm about to ask is probably very rudimentary, but I'm stuck on a project, and I'd like some help.

Basically I'm doing a small Javascript project, where I want there to be some enemies. In the beginning there will be 0 enemies, and then as time goes on, there might be created more enemies. I was thinking that whenever an enemy is created, I should create it as an object, and then store it in an array containing all the active enemies in game. Then, later on, I could remove enemies from the array, that needed to be removed.

This is the function that creates my enemy objects:

function enemy(name, strength, rarity, estTime, success, remTime, Id){
	this.name = name;
	this.strength = strength;
	this.rarity = rarity;
	this.estTime = estTime;
	this.success = success;
	this.remTime = remTime;
	this.Id = Id;
}

So, I could then create some enemies like this:

var enemy1 = new enemy("Bob", 1, "Common", 100, 1, 30, 1)
var enemy2 = new enemy("Cow", 22, "Rare", 50, 10, 40, 2)
var enemy3 = new enemy("Pig", 333, "Epic", 25, 10, 50, 3)

Then I could create an array of enemies, and put my 3 enemies into that array:

var enemies = [];
enemies = [enemy1, enemy2, enemy3];

All fine and dandy when I'm doing this manually, but the problem emerges when I want to try to get the code to automatically create some more enemies. Say I wanted to create an enemy everytime a button was pushed by the user. The name enemy would get some name, strength, rarity whatever, and the next Id in line (in this case 1, 2 and 3 are being used, so the next would be 4). I was thinking I could do it something like this, but this doesn't work:

enemy[enemies.length + 1] = new enemy("Dog", 444, "Epic", 13, 100, 60, 4);
enemies.push(enemy + [enemies.length + 1]);

I was hoping that this would create an object called "enemy4" with with name, id and whatever I just typed in, and then add that object to the array of enemies.

But this obviously doesn't work. I hope you guys understand the problem, and any help is greatly appreciated. I realize that I'm probably just approaching this all wrong, and that there probably exists a much simpler way to do this.

Thanks!

EDIT: Yep, answer was very simple, got it now. Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 220

Answers (1)

Kevin Boucher
Kevin Boucher

Reputation: 16675

var enemies = [
    new enemy(/*params here*/),
    new enemy(/*params here*/),
    new enemy(/*params here*/),
    new enemy(/*params here*/),
    new enemy(/*params here*/)
];

Then later:

enemies.push(
    new enemy(/*params here*/)
);

Upvotes: 1

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