On 7/20/07, James Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
No no, make the type named. The Union should be anonymous.
(actually, there is no place in the code that actually uses the stat
names, so we could just turf that)
--
Mike Caron
Tale of the Cave
http://taleofthecave.com
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