Internally, structures are represented by an object that can be treated either 
as an array or dictionary. When you're getting a structure into your plugin, 
you shouldn't rely on it being one or the other, however it looks like we could 
do something better when the structure does have keys. Writing a writing a bug 
to make sure that it outputs as a dictionary if it has keys would be helpful to 
us. 

Troy

On Jun 29, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Michal Antonic wrote:

> I also witnessed this behavior and would like to know why, too.
> 
> Miso
> 
> On 29.6.2010, at 23:55, fsk wrote:
> 
>> im making a custom plugin that has a structure input port (array). when i 
>> send it an array of dictionaries, the dictionaries become arrays. Why is 
>> that?
>> 
>> 
>> NSArray *myMessages=self.inputMessages;
>>              int numberOfMessages=[myMessages count];
>>              for(int i=0;i<numberOfMessages;i++)
>>              {
>>                      NSDictionary *myMsg=[myMessages objectAtIndex:i];
>>                      [midiManager sendMsg:[VVMIDIMessage createFromVals:
>>                       (Byte)[[myMsg objectForKey:@"type"] integerValue]&255:
>>                       (Byte)[[myMsg objectForKey:@"channel"] 
>> integerValue]&15:
>>                       (Byte)[[myMsg objectForKey:@"data1"] integerValue]&127:
>>                       (Byte)[[myMsg objectForKey:@"data2"] integerValue]&127]
>>                       ];
>>                      
>>              }
>> 
>> this throws an exception because NSCFArray does not respond to the 
>> objectForKey selector.
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