Is this how ArrayObject is supposed to work?
by Daniel Buckmaster · in Torque 3D Beginner · 11/16/2012 (5:40 pm) · 2 replies
I really hadn't used ArrayObject before now, preferring to stay out of TorqueScript. But I've just started to get my feet wet, and realised that ArrayObject does not work the way I thought it did. I'm sure I've seen code snippets like this:
new ArrayObject(MyArray); MyArray["key1"] = "value1"; MyArray["key2"] = "value2"; echo(MyArray["key1"]);which, as you would expect, printed "value1". But I have discovered that this doesn't actually work. Is there a reason for this? Also, there's no way to get a value straight from a key. So, for example, doing this:
echo(MyArray.getValue("key2"));prints "value1" because "key2" is magically cast to the integer value 0 code-side. So if I want to get the value based on a key, I need to write:%val = MyArray.getValue(MyArray.getIndexFromKey("key2"));What?
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Oh, and you can format spaces using [code ]code tags[/code ] (without the spaces):
11/16/2012 (7:20 pm)
Thanks for the confirmation, Casey. I was just surprised, both because I thought I'd seen the class working differently before, and because it's very different to how associative arrays work in any other language.Oh, and you can format spaces using [code ]code tags[/code ] (without the spaces):
first line never has any leading spaces
but after that, all spaces are preserved! 
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function ArrayObject::getValueKey(%this,%key){ return %this.getValue(%this.getIndexFromKey(%key)); }MyArray.add(%key,%value); // how to add data to array
MyArray.add("1,1","fish");
echo(MyArray.getValueKey("1,1")); should return fish
MyArray.echo(); you should get something like this
example:
edit: for some reason it removed the spaces, so i replaced with dashes
Index--Key----Value
1------"1,1"--"fish"
2------"1,2"--"cow"
3------"2,1"--"rabbit"
4------"2,2"--"a"
5------"3,1"--"b"
6------"3,2"--"c"
also this -> http://docs.garagegames.com/torque-3d/reference/classArrayObject.html