On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 10:47 AM, rand valentine wrote:
i have been reading old posts to the list to try and figure out as much as
I can about using custom properties and custom property sets to store arrays
of data. But there is some indeterminancy in the list posts, as one might
expect, since they almost always address very specific needs. So, could
someone knowledgeable clarify for me how exactly one differentially loads
(and accesses) an array as a custom property versus a custom property set? I
want to have about 6 arrays, all as distinct custom properties, but in the
same set. My reason for doing things this way is simple -- if I make each
array a differnt custom property set, don't i always have to be setting the
custom property set to the appropriate one in order to access that array's
data? Thanks so much.
Rand, you have to make 6 custom property sets. Each set is an array. It is true you can set a particular set like
set the customPropertySet of this stack to "set1" get the uWhatever of this stack -- from the current set
However, there is a more convenient syntax you can use to get and set values using an array notation that does not require you to set the customPropertySet first:
set the set1[value] of this stack to something -- into set 1 get the setx[value] of this stack -- from set x get the sety[value] of this stack --- from set y
sometimes it is convenient to go ahead and set the customProperty set if you are going to be accessing the set a lot. Also then you can use the customKeys to get the array keys without making a copy of the array.
Hope this helps a little,
Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. http://ARCplanning.com
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