Extending and Over-Riding

[happybirthday]

Hello everyone,

I am making a physics based puzzle game and have designed the levels using XML the structure of the Level Design is as follows ..

BaseObjectClass -> This class makes the objects for the game.

LevelClass -> This class extends the BaseObjectClass reads from the XML and makes the object by calling functions defined inside the BaseObjectClass

My problem is that .. If suppose sometimes I don't wanna use the Default Image that i have mentioned in the BaseObjectClass and want to use the Image whose location I have provided in the XML file how can i do that ?
(suppose I have an Orange Colored Square as the default square and I want to create 2 exactly same squares but just Red in color .. how can i do that)

Any advice would be appreciated ..
Thanks a lot
Have a nice day

[ra4king]

You can add a setColor(Color) method to BaseObjectClass.

[happybirthday]

thanx but that was just an example ...


actually I want to use different images ...

Like a Brick Shaped Image when i dont mention anything in the XML
and a maybe Mettalic Shine Image when i mention something like 'meta' in the XML ..

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[ra4king]

Then the BaseObjectClass should have an Image variable and the code that parses the XML should be able to assign the correct image.

[happybirthday]

thanx a lot
I dont know why I was confused but you sure helped