Arrays in types

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Dabbede

(Posted 2003) [#1]

Hi! There's someone who knows how I can register arrays inside a type, for ex.

Type player
	Field a
	Field Dim b(20)
End Type

Thanks!

CyBeRGoth

(Posted 2003) [#2]

you were so close!!

Type player
Field a
Field b[20]
End Type

:)

soja	(Posted 2003) [#3]

Note that the square-bracket array declaration format is undocumented, (which means "technically unsupported") for one reason or another (though you can use it fine). Also note that you can only have 1-dimensional arrays in this format.

I also seem to remember some people doing tests and it seems to me as if array access for [] arrays were slower than for the Dim() arrays. That's just the impression in my head though -- I could be way off-base.

Oldefoxx

(Posted 2003) [#4]

As documented elsewhere, you can emmulate multi-dimesnion
array assignments by the process of multiplying the range
of each by the others, such as:

Type Days
Field hhmmss[24*60*60]     ;Int(hhmmss/3600) for hours,
                           ;(hhmmss/60) Mod 60 for minutes,
                           ;hhmmss Mod 60 for seconds
End Type