One object, multiple classes

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Tessa Ste..

in General Discussion • Other • 2 months ago

Hi all,

I have some experience with all different kinds of languages, but I'm not an expert in any of them, which sometimes brings me in situations like this. Hope you can understand my question..

From HTML / CSS I remember that you can make an object, let's say: a square, and this object can be part of different classes. For example, it can be part of the class 'size-big', which defines the size of the square, or the class 'colour-pink', which defines the colour of the square.

Is something like this possible in Processing? One object acquiring behaviour from different classes?

I am working with an agent-based model, and I would like to give different agents different combinations of behavioral properties. This way I would only need classes for each property, and not for each combination of the properties.

I hope that made sense, please tell me if you need more explanation.

Tessa

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asimes

Re: One object, multiple classes

2 months ago

It would not work like CSS in Processing. The kinds of classes you described in CSS have effects that either:

- Do not affect one another (making a <div> some color as well as a specific width)

- Overwrite one another (making a <div> 100px wide and then later making it 200px wide)

- Have effects handled by the browser (not specifying a <div>'s width and then making its position absolute)

Classes in Processing describe one object. However, it is possible to:

- Have a class contain other classes (a class Cube might have instances of other classes like Point or Edge. I made these classes up by the way).

- Be a modification of a base class (a class Hero could be an extension of a class Agent. Likewise an Enemy class could also be an extension of Agent).