From: Greg Coit <gregcoit@...>
Date: 2006-04-28T07:29:50+09:00
Subject: Re: object available in one class but not another?

On 4/27/06, Dave Burt <dave@burt.id.au> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> I'm going to ignore your question in hope that this advice is as useful
> as an answer would be.
>
> Don't include Robot in Radar or Gun. That type of relationship is "a Gun
> is a kind of Robot", which is not what you want. GoofeyDuck is your Robot.
>
> (Your problem is probably related to the fact that, for example,
> radar_heading inside a Radar object refers to that Radar's radar,
> whereas the parent GoofeyDuck has a separate radar. You have 4 robots, 3
> inside the other 1!)
>
> Here's an alternative skeleton, with only 1 robot per robot:

Dave,

You're awesome, and 100% in the money.  Thanks for taking the time to
do this, I'm going to fless out the skeleton you gave me right away!

Thanks!

Greg