Im about to rewrite one of my programms as i gained abit more programmings skills and i can tell it was really bad code :)
Anyway before i start i got a question to make it the right way from the beginning.

Lets say the programm is reading data out of a textfile and creates different objects out of this data. for example, different sized ellipses and the size is written in the textfile.

So my question is,when is the right time to read and pass the data to the object? I used two different ways, but i can tell non of them is a good one i guess...

So first i red the data when creating the spots like this :

for(int i = 1; i<spots.length; i++){
float size = dataTable.getFloat(i);
spots[i] = new Spot(size);
}

the other attemp was just passing the number of the object

for(int i = 1; i<spots.length; i++){
spots[i] = new Spot(i);
}

and then reading the data at the object setup

... Spot(int number){
int _number = number;
float size = dataTable.getFloat(_number);
}...

or is there any other way to do this,
and i was asking myself if i can skip the "passing i" part and just read which instance of the object it is to get the right data out of the file...


Thanks!

Thanks, thats the one i have chosen. I thought there is maybe another way, but i asked 2 more people and they both also told me to go with the first one...