Hi, I’ve been thinking about something which I do all the time and I’m wondering if it breaks the rule of encapsulation…
Very often, I like to initialize certain objects in classes which are higher in the hierarchy (closer to the stage) because I find that it’s easier to make changes from there. Anyway, then, I like to pass these objects to ‘manager’ classes which control the properties of this object such as position, size, etc…
Since I am altering a class outside of the original class it was created in, does that break encapsulation? Or does encapsulation only apply to objects that are returned from child classes? In other words; is it OK to allow the child of a class to edit the properties of its ‘siblings’ (siblings to that child class… that is).
I just really like the fact that you can instantiate an object once and then pass it to multiple different manager classes.
