On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 05:22:01PM -0500, Mike Caron wrote:
> On 7/20/07, James Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 05:02:46PM -0500, Mike Caron wrote:
> > > On 7/20/07, James Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:12:03AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > > james
> > > > > 2007-07-20 11:12:03 -0700 (Fri, 20 Jul 2007)
> > > > > 200
> > > > > Fixed broken stat editor in hero editor.
> > > > > For some reason, UNION does not work at all so I had to write some
> > > > > big ugly blocks of CASE statements until we can find a better way
> > > > > to deal with the problem.
> > > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > Ooh... on closer examination, this UNION problem affects a lot of stuff
> > > > in GAME too. For example, when you get a level up, you stats do not
> > > > increase.
> > > >
> > > > Does UNION work in FreeBasic 0.17 (and if it doesn't work in 0.16, why
> > > > does it even compile?)
> > >
> > > In .16, Unions themselves work fine, if I recall correctly. However,
> > > it may have had an issue with anonymous types. This issue has been
> > > resolved in .17, however, where they work perfectly.
> > >
> >
> > What is an anoymous type?
>
> Type Foobar
> Union
> myint(3) as integer
> Type
> as integer a, b, c, d
> End Type
> End Union
> End Type
>
> Here we actually have both an anonymous type AND an anonymous union.
> The anonymous bit means that they don't have names, which means that
> the members pretend to be members of the parent ("Foobar.myint(1)",
> "Foobar.a").
>
> The purpose of anonymous types is primarily for convenience in Unions.
> The above could also be written like this:
>
> Type baz
> as integer a, b, c, d
> End Type
>
> Type Foobar
> Union
> myint(3) as integer
> myvars as baz
> End Union
> End Type
>
> But, in this case, you're forcing the myvars name, making it look like
> "Foobar.myvars.a" and "Foobar.myint(3)"
Ah, cool. So if we make the Union non-anonymous, we can get rid of my
get_herodata_byindex/set_herodata_byindex hack.
I'll try that right now.
---
James Paige
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