Hello,
I've been doing some study on how to create a grid-like representation of
flat-based arrays.
Considering you are working with a data backend that will server you a
one-dimensional array like this:
var arr = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0]
And you would like to render in in your flash applications (or whatever)
like a grid/matrix:
1,2,3,4
5,6,7,8
9,0
The way I do it currently:
<as2 code>
//First I decide on a condition to when I will "reset the column pointer and
do a line break"
var MAX_COLS = 4;
for (i=0; i < arr.length; i++)
{
if (i % MAX_COLS == 0 && i != 0)
{
rows++;
}
var thumb_mc.x = i*(thumb_mc.width) + offset;
var thumb_mc-y = rows*(thumb_mc.height) + offset;
}
</as2 code>
Not that this is pseudo-code, I haven't actually tested it, but you can get
the idea.
I could have used a cols variable in the place of using the i counter and
just replace the condition with the modulus with a "if cols > MAX_COLS",
since I would be reseting (cols = 0) this var when this condition were true:
if (cols >= MAX_COLS)
{
cols = 0;
rows++
}
Now, what bothering me is the two dimensional array usually used in
tile-based games.
I was thinking this morning that maybe it would be easier to just convert
the flat-based array to a two dimensional one beforehand, like this:
var arr = [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,0]];
and then use a loop like:
for (i = 0; i < arr.length; i ++) {
for (j = 0; j < arr[i].lentgh; j++) {
thumb_mc.x = i*thumb_mc.width + offset;
thumb_mc.y = j*thumb_mc.height + offset;
}
}
Please, correct me if I'm wrong on any of these points/code.
What do you think?
Thanks in advance,
PS.: Btw, is there a book or something that has recipes/patterns for such
problems ? (like: ways to render data in a grid-based fashion).
Marcelo.
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