Well, it was a general description of how to use a single list
instead of many variables using a base name with a 1, 2, 3, etc.
appended to it. Here the text of my earlier message:
... If you have a need for something like this, what you really want
is a list. Lists are one of the most powerful features of Lingo.
Once you get your head around them, you will wonder how you were able
to get by without them.
For what you want to do, you should really create a list which would
have 25 elements, where each element of the list has the value of
150. This is easily done as follows:
myVariable = [] -- start off as an empty list
repeat with i = 1 to 25
append(myVariable, 150)
end repeat
Then where ever you would have referenced something with a variable
of yours like 'myVariableX', you would instead reference it with
'myVariable[x]'. For example where you would have tried to use
myVariable5, use myVariable[5], referring to the 5th element in your
list. This can be either on the left or right side of an assignment
statement as it:
myVariable[5] = 12
or
someOtherVariable = myVariable[5]
But the real power of lists comes when you start to refer to list
elements using other variables as indexes:
myVariable[someIndex] = someValue
I would strongly recommend that you take the time to learn about
lists, it will be well work it.
Irv
At 7:34 PM -0700 6/16/05, Buzz Kettles wrote:
this question came up fairly recently -
what you probably want is a proplist with unique names in some way
related to particular spritenums
Irv did a great description last time, so I'll let him find his
older response :)
-Buzz
At 8:24 AM +1000 6/17/05, you wrote:
Hi list.
It's been a while since I've touched programming. I have string
that I would like to convert as a variable-name so that I can use
that to call a variable with different values on them.
basically this is what it's supposed to do roughly
on beginspite
myVariable = "myVariable" & the spriteNum of me
end
on mouseUP
put myVariable
end
lingo.ini
-- then you have this here
myVariable1 = "dfddf"
myVariable2 = "etc"
myVariable3 = "etc etc"
thanks for the help
Elvin.
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