My method isnt looping in my while()

[BenShen]

hello, i made a botAI_it class for my AI enemy in my 2D game in c++, SDL;
I have a main game loop where everything goes and they all loop as they shouold.

bool run =true;
while (run)
{
//code
}

In my bot class, i have a method which moves the bot.

void botAI_it::move()
{
botX -=0.9;
}

since i have this method inside a loop, it should keep looping and slowly move it across like my character controlled by keys, but this bot only moves once and doesnt loop. When i put "cout<<"sdfsd;" in the method, that loops fine and keep saying the cout.

[ciphermagi]

You're omitting important parts of code. Include everything that might have an effect on the movement, as well as the state of your bool run.

[BenShen]

thanks for the reply. My class is in its own header and everything relating to my bot: x,y width, height etc, is privater so obviously i need my methods to do something with them. I cant include bool run because that is in my main.cpp , not in my class.
ALSO:::: If i said : "botWidth-=90;" then that would work, it would decreas its width by 90, but only once. I want to to keep doing the code sinmce its in the loop

[Peter87]

It sounds like it loops but something else is wrong. Are you sure you don't set botX to some value somewhere else in your code? Is botX a floating point number?

[BenShen]

OHHH!!!! thankyou you are a GENUIS!!! i had a set() function so it would moveit then just set it again. All i had to do was take the set() out of the loop and just put it into the main(). THANKYOU!
btw, it is a float. is a float just a number that can have decimals? what else does it do?