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[mulatto401]

Hi all,

I'm a Java guy, but learning C# has been interesting. I was wondering if anyone can shed some light about why I have been getting this Warning: "Accessing a member on 'MyGame.Player.index' may cause a runtime exception because it is a field of a marshal-by-reference class"

I get this warning when accessing these variables from my game logic code which is in another package/namespace.

I have added variables in the Player class that extends the BasePlayer class.

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namespace MyGame
{
   public class Player : BasePlayer
   {
      public Player enemy;
      public float money;
      public int index;
                public Cheese cheese;
      
      public Player()
      {
         
      }
   }
}

I am wondering if this is the best approach to have variables on my Player Objects or if having that warning will in any way effect the game. (I have not tested to see if it will work even with these warnings).

Thanks

[TomatoGG]

Is your Player class and your Game class compiled into the same assembly?
The assembly must also be a DLL and not an EXE.

[Oliver]

Hi,

That warning is, unfortunately, a way of life -- it's because way down the class "BasePlayer" actually inherits from MarshalByRef.

It's however completely harmless.

What you can do is disable the warning in the project file

- oliver

[mulatto401]

Alright great, just wanted to know if it would effect the game in anyway