Rather than have a global for each, it would be easier/better to have
a single global list to store the inventory for all players. Here
are two ways to do this. First, if you just want to do this by
player number, then you could have a single list where each element
in the list is your property list:
global gnumPlayers
global gInventoryList
gInventoryList = [] -- initialize to an empty list
repeat with i = 1 to gnumPlayers
append(gInventoryList, [:]) -- append an empty prop list for each player
end repeat
Then you can reference the inventory for each player by number. For
example, if there is a player three, then player three's inventory
list could be retrieved by doing this:
thisPlayersInventoryList = gInventoryList[3]
However, if each player hhas a "name", and you want to reference
their inventory by their name, then you can built a property list
like this. I'll assume that you have the players names in some
global list:
global gPlayerNamesList
global gInventoryList
global gNumPlayers -- must be equal to count(gPlayerNamesList)
gInventoryLit = [:] -- initialize to empty property list
repeat with i = 1 to gnumPlayers
thisPlayerName = gPlayersNamesList[i]
addProp(gInventoryList, thisPlayerName, [:])
end repeat
Then when you want to retrieve the inventory list for a particular
player, you use the player's name as an index into the gInventoryList:
thisPlayersInventoryList = gInventoryList["JohhnyBoy"]
Irv
At 4:50 AM +0000 2/11/02, Nmuta Jones wrote:
>Hello
>
>This is something that seems fairly simple...but I'm not doing it right.
>
>I am building a simple game where the user enters number of players
>which is stored as gnumPlayers.
>
>then a repeat loop is used to set up several things for each player,
>depending on how many players there are. everything in the loop
>worked until I later tried to add an empty prop list for each
>player. Each list is to have a unique name concatenating the player
>number with the list name. What I WANT is a bunch of empty prop
>lists named ginventorylist1, ginventorylist2, ginventorylist3, etc.
>
>here is the part of the code that needs fixing:
>
>global gnumPlayers--(this derived from text user input earlier.)
> repeat with i= 1 to (gnumPlayers)
> global (ginventorylist & i) = [:]
>
>end repeat
>
>end
>
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