I have a class (star) that I have tried every possibly way to store. I've used lists, arrays, naming individual items, but no matter what it seems whenever I use the collection of stars to draw them they all end up the exact same.
I'm not actually sure if they are all referencing the same object, or they all reference different objects with the exact same properties
The funny thing is that if I make a breaker as the items are being created and the list is being populated, they actually do end up different and seperate in the end... but if I just let it run normal then... well yeah
Has anyone had a problem similar? Or maybe my star class has an error?
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Drawing;
namespace Field
{
public class Star
{
public int twinkleUpDown { get; set; }
public int twinkleWait { get; set; }
public int twinkleAlpha { get; set; }
public int alpha { get; set; }
public bool isBig { get; set; }
public Point location { get; set; }
public fieldForm FieldForm { get; set; }
public int twinkleCount { get; set; }
public Star(fieldForm hold, Random random)
{
twinkleCount = 0;
FieldForm = hold;
random = new Random();
if (random.Next(3) == 1)
isBig = true;
twinkleUpDown = random.Next(10, 50);
twinkleWait = random.Next(20, 100);
alpha = random.Next(100, 255);
location = new Point(random.Next( 0 ,FieldForm.ClientSize.Width), random.Next(0, (FieldForm.ClientSize.Height / 2) - 2));
twinkleAlpha = alpha - 50;
}
}
}
Danatas GerviPosted Sep 10, 2009, 3:43 AM
I suggest you to use one random instance for all stars, and create it before – in main form.
Your code
random = new Random();Recreating the class, so it acts like restart.I think, in random generation used current time – it may explain, why you do get random numbers during debugging (time is really different from one iteration to another).