Problems accessing a "public static var"

[JustGabe]

So basically here's the simplified code of the class:

class Car

{

    public static var noOfWheels:Int = 4;

public function new() 

{

}

    public static function getNoOfWheels():Int

    {       

        return Car.noOfWheels;

    }

}

But when I try to access the var "noOfWheels", in any of these possible methods, it throws me an error:

 trace (myCar.noOfWheels);

Cannot access static field noOfWheels from a class instance

 trace (myCar.getNoOfWheels());
Cannot access static field getNoOfWheels from a class instance

 trace (Type.getClass(myCar).noOfWheels);

Class<Car> has no field noOfWheels

So, how the hell am I supposed to get the value of the var from Main!?

[Ashiq A.]

Static in Haxe is the same as in other languages. Instead of "myCar.noOfWheels", you should be trying to access Car.noOfWheels or Car.getNoOfWheels.

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[JustGabe]

But that only solves half the problem, what if I make multiple Cars with different noOfWheels values? how do I access them?

for (i in 0...5)

{

myCar = new Car(i);

cars.push(myCar);

}

class Car

{

    public static var noOfWheels:Int;

public function new(num:Int) 

{

noOfWheels = num;

}
}

[Ashiq A.]

I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish by doing that.

Static variables are stored conceptually with a class.

In your case, all cars would get the same value of noOfWheels, which is the last assigned value, which (in your case) is 4 or 5 (not sure if haxe's "..." iterator is inclusive or exclusive of the value).

This is nothing special to Haxe; it works the same way in Java, C#, Ruby, PHP, etc.

Feel free to experiment here: http://try.haxe.org/

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[JustGabe]

I'm programming an RPG where every time the player enters a new room, a number of NPC's are loaded in the new map (if there's any), each one with their own array of dialogues, for example:

class Char extends FlxSprite

{

  public static var dialogue:Array<String> = [];

  public function new(dialogue:Array<String>) 

  {

    this.dialogue = dialogue;
    //more code...
  }
}

var chat:Array<Array<String>> = [

["line 00", "line 01"],

["line 02", "line 03"],

["line 04", "line 05", "line 06"]

];

for (i in 0...3)

{

char = new Char(chat[i]);

chars.push(char);

}

But if I do

trace(char[0].dialogue);

the "Cannot access static field dialogue from a class instance"

[Dlean Jeans]

Maybe you shouldn't make the `dialogue` static.

About the `Car`, there are 2 ways:
1. You should make `noOfWheels` non-static
2. You ought to make 2 class of car like `FourWheel' and `FiveWheel` with static `noOfWheels`

[Jeru Sanders]

That behaviour is the definition of static, when you call Math.random(), you don't have to make a "new Math()", because the function is static and instances don't matter.

You probably don't actually want a static here, what makes you think static is the keyword you need to use here?