Depending on how you want to use the objects that you will be
creating, you could create these objects and store the object
references in a linear list. It's not clear from your code what the
second parameter you are trying to use is. But that aside, you could
create one global list:
global gMyObjects
Initialize it somewhere appropriate:
gMyObjects = []
Then as you create each object, you add the returned object reference
to the global list:
repeat with r = 1 to numOfQuestionsCatA
param2 = ??? -- whatever you want here
-- Now create a new object, which returns an object reference
oNewlyCreatedObjectRef = new(parentScriptName, r, param2)
-- Now add that object reference to your global list
append(gMyObjects, oNewlyCreatedObjecrRef)
end repeat
After doing this, you will have a linear list of object references.
You can refer to any item in that list by pulling out an a specific
element in the list. For example, the reference to the third object
in the list is: gMyObjects[3]. If you want to call some method
(handler) in your "TestParentScript" using, say, the fourth object,
it would be like this:
gMyObjects[4].mSomeMethodName(anyParametersYouWantToPass)
If you wanted to run down the list of objects and call the same
method for each:
repeat with oMyObject in gMyObjects
oMyObject.mSomeMethodName(params ...)
end repeat
Good luck,
Irv
PS: The "global testNumber" in your parent script doesn't do
anything. What you really want is to output the value of the first
parameter passed in, which is put in the local variable "a". That
will tell you the number of the object created.
PPS: Unless you declare: "property a" (and property b) at the top
of your script, the value of both variables will be lost as soon as
the new method exits since a and b are local variables, not property
variables.
At 9:24 AM +0000 7/9/02, Neil Sandbach wrote:
>Can anyone give me some help please?
>
>What I want to do is to dynamicaly create a number of child objects
>from a parent script, and assign each child object to a dynamically
>created variable. The variable names and parameters passed to the
>child object simply increment by one each time such as:
>
>myVariable1 = new(script "ParentScriptName", 1, X)
>myVariable2 = new(script "ParentScriptName", 2, X)
>myVariable3 = new(script "ParentScriptName", 3, X)
>etc.
>
>So I tried a test:
>
>
>
>on createVarsForQuestions
> numOfQuestionsCatA = 5 --initialise with total number of
>questions in this category
>
> repeat with r = 1 to numOfQuestionsCatA
> global testNumber
> testNumber = r
> oQuestionNum = "varQuestionNum" & r --a string!
> parentScriptName = "TestParentScript"
> newScript = "=new(script" & parentScriptName & ", 1, 2)"
> do(oQuestionNum & newScript)
>
> put oQuestionNum
> put "-----------"
> end repeat
>end
>
>
>
>The parent script "TestParentScript" is:
>
>on new me, a, b
> global testNumber
> put "child number:"&&testNumber
> put "parameter 1="
> put a
> put "parameter 2="
> put b
> return me
>end
>
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