Say I have these Classes and variables
public class Human {
public string name;
}
public class Home {
public Human m_oHuman = null;
public Home(ref Human p_oHuman) { //note the ref
m_oHuman = p_oHuman;
}
//p_oNewHuman takes over the home
public void TakeOver(Human p_oNewHuman) { //don't need ref, just need copy
m_oHuman = p_oNewHuman; //Won't work as intended.
}
}
//Run this code
public Human homeOwner = new Human { name = "Sally" };
public Home home = new Home(ref homeOwner)
public Human homeStealer = new Human { name = "Daisy" };
home.TakeOver(homeStealer);
What I'm trying to do is pass homeOwner by reference and save that reference in the global variable m_oHuman then later I want to try make homeOwner "point" to homeStealer or at least a copy of homeStealer since it's not passed by ref. But doing it the way I've coded seems to make m_oHuman lose the initial reference, and so homeOwner is still "Sally" when I want it to point to p_oNewHuman.
What I'm thinking I must do, instead of m_oHuman = p_oNewHuman;, is go through and copy all the variables from p_oNewHuman to m_oHuman.
But with the code I'm really working with, there are many members and classes that I'm trying to make work like the code above and I feel this could become cumbersome having to manually copy object variables. So I'm wondering if there was a better or easier way to achieve this goal.
