Arrays in Types?

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Jellon

(Posted 2004) [#1]

I've checked all over documentations and examples and all sorts of places, but I don't see any examples of using placing an arary in a Type Field. The compliler won't let me do it either. Am I wrong, or is there some way to accomplish this without using a bank? I don't like using the peek/poke commands honestly, and beyond that, I want to create an array that holds types in a type.
Example:

Type Skill
	Field name$,Damage#,Img3D
End Type

Type Creature
	;I want the creature to have upto 4 skills
	Field Dim Skills.Skill(4)
	Field name$,HP#,Img3D
End Type

That isn't my actual code, just an example I came up with in 1 minute ^_^
Anyhow, thanks for any help provided.

Jellon

(Posted 2004) [#2]

Wait, I think I got it. You use [] instead of (). Saw it some where in someone's example code for more experianced ppl. So heres to those who didn't know you could.
Example code:

Type Container
	Field Things.Thing[20]
End Type

Type Thing
	Field Value[5]
End Type

Global Cup.Container=New Container
Cup\Things[0]=New thing
Cup\Things[0]\Value[0]=1
Cup\Things[0]\Value[1]=2
Cup\Things[0]\Value[2]=3
Cup\Things[1]=New thing
Cup\Things[1]\Value[0]=4
Cup\Things[1]\Value[1]=5
Cup\Things[1]\Value[2]=6

For T=0 To 1
	For V=0 To 2
		Print Cup\Things[T]\Value[V]
	Next
Next
WaitKey()
End

Picklesworth

(Posted 2004) [#3]

With arrays in types, you can't change the size of an array though.

Ross C

(Posted 2004) [#4]

And, they can only be one dimensional :o)

Techlord

(Posted 2004) [#5]

And, they can only be one dimensional :o)

True. However, with a simple math formula you can simulate Multi-dimensional Arrays of any size.