on 7/11/04 12:31 PM, Troy Rollins at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Jul 11, 2004, at 3:07 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> My post tells a story: it begins with things the reader understands >> (Judy is very familiar with working with delimited lists) and branches >> out to how associative arrays can be used to solve related problems >> with much greater flexibility and, in many cases, ease. > > I understand quite well Rev's associative arrays, at least on the base > level that they have been described here and in the documentation, and > I use them in my work. > > But, I'll go ahead and ask for some additional insight. As you may > know, I come from an extensive background in Director, which has syntax > derived from the same source as Transcript, but evolved to being "list > based" rather than "string based" as Transcript is. > > In Director, it is VERY common to have extremely deeply nested arrays, > often with tens of thousands of items dispersed across many layers of > array nesting. These nested arrays can contain both associative arrays, > and linear lists, and those in turn can contain either as well, and so > on. Contents of these lists are easily target-able, and very rapidly > accessible. > > How is this done in Transcript, if at all? If not, what is the logical > replacement? In some cases, I've gone to generating stacks and using > cards to organize such data, but would prefer a variable structure for > the speed, especially considering that the user never has to actually > see the data in the stored/working form. > > -- > Troy
Hi Troy, I came from Director also and missed lists so much that I created my own. just for you: http://www.gizmotron.org/revolution/dimensionalList.rev & http://www.gizmotron.org/revolution/mtmlDataTable.rev ...also at the RunRev website under developer contributions I created a stack for array manipulation called frogBreath 1.0 I plan to take all three of these stacks and break them down as basic tutorials for beginners. I will contribute them to Rev or the new RevDocs group to be used any way that best supports the Rev community. Mark _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
