Can't input to a global object array

[Barda4]

Hi,

So I'm making my final project for my CS class. I'm making a pokemon game.
So right now I'm trying to input information(The pokemon the player has) into my array of objects(The list of pokemon the player has). I have the array in a global class so every form can access it. I have it declared as;

public class GlobalVariables
    {
            public static PlayerPokemon[] PlayerPokemonList = new PlayerPokemon[5];
    }

but when I try to input something to that array with;

GlobalVariables.PlayerPokemonList[0].Name = "BULBASAUR";

It says the object is null. I've tried to declare the array under the initilizer in the form but it doesn't work, I tried it like this;

 public IntroForm()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            GlobalVariables.PlayerPokemonList[] PlayerList = new GlobalVariables.PlayerPokemonList[];
        }

I have also tried to put it under Public Partial Class, but it doesnt work

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[alexis4]

try this:

public static PlayerPokemon[] PlayerPokemonList = 
   new PlayerPokemon[5];
 
for (byte i = 0; i < 5; i++)
  PlayerPokemonList[i] = new PlayerPokemon();

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[tlhintoq]

Please forgive me but...

So I'm making my final project for my CS class.

So you've gone through the entire class and they never taught you that you have initialize the objects before you can use them? Ask for your money back and put it toward an assortment of self-teaching books from the book store. The "Sams" line is quite good. "Sam's Teach yourself C# in 21 days" for example.

Please understand that I'm not insulting you - I am expressing my deep distain for whatever school stole your money and gave you little for it.

[Barda4]

My class is only a grade 12 class, so I don't pay for it. And it's not that I don't know how to initilze objects, it's just I'm trying to initilize a global object array, but whatever I've tried, doesnt work.

[tlhintoq]

it's just I'm trying to initilize a global object array

As Alexis4 pointed out, you have to initialize each object in the array.
Making the array allocates a variable and memory space, but it doesn't cause each object *in* the array to be created.
So you make the array, then make a new object for element of the array.