is it possible to create a member of a class with pointers

[soft tide]

As the title says I am currently trying to figure out how do use pointers to create a member of a class this is mainly me trying to create object spawn code for a game

[winter lichen]

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[bold tinsel]

what do you mean by this

pointers can't create a member, thats part of the declaration of the type

you can make pointers to members though

[soft tide]

I meant declaring a object / instance of a class my bad

[bold tinsel]

I still don't really know what you mean but I will give some examples anyway

class A {
 // ...
};

A* a = /* ... */;  // a pointer to an A

class A {
public:
  int i;
};

A a = {1};

int* i_ptr = &a.i;// a pointer to the `i` on `a`
int A::* a_i = &A::i;// a pointer to any `i` member of an A

a.*a_i = /* ... */;// can assign to the `i` inside `a` like this

[soft tide]

What I mean is classes are blueprints and objects are what has the data like eg objecta.inta

[bold tinsel]

yes

but types all happen at compile time

c++ is statically typed

If you want to copy a value you can do that

if you want to make a new value you can do that (but not sure what pointer necessarily have to do with that)

[soft tide]

Got it

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