I am starting a new project and have to decide the best way to store a lot of info for my button states and actions.
right now I need to decide which is the best way to proceed???
I have hundreds of buttons. In groups of about 130 each.
Each button has three states: Available to hit, Not-available to hit and mouseDown once hit.
I need to set the available/not-available state depending on the other buttons. MouseDown is just for feedback that an available button is pushed.
I need to store the available buttons in groups of two, three or four.
I need to store a name for which group the button is now available.
I need to store a phrase that hitting the button will get.
I need to store which main group the button is in.
My Decision is between arrays (which I am new to understanding), Custom Properties (which seem complicated for this) and Simple storage containers from delimited text files (which I am used to). Any Help deciding??????
Sample data in group1 line 1:
House,rainbow,car,food,Let's go out for fast food,Home Things,Going Out,Driving,Fast Food, 128 Icon Group
button1, button2 ,button3, button4, thephrase, name1, name2, name3, name4, groupname1
button1, button2 ,button3, button4, thephrase, name1, name2, name3, name4, groupname1
etc.
etc.
and in group2 line1:
button1, button2 ,button3, button4, thephrase, name1, name2, name3, name4, groupname2
etc.
I use the groupname to find out which set of button to make available as a whole.
What I do with this is :get all button1's and make them highlighted.
Also, on mouseWithin I display the Name1's of the available buttons one at a time when over that button.
Then after hitting one of them I get all button twos that have the first hit button in the button1 place and make available the button2's.
Also, on mouseWithin I display the Name2 of the available buttons
Then after hitting one of them I get all button threes that have the same second button and the same first button and make all of the available third button's available for hitting.
Also, on mouseWithin I display the Name3 (which is similar to the thephrase)
If there is a button4 then I do the same if not then:
Then when the third button is hit the phrase is displayed. And all buttons go back to the first state.
Or if there is no button3 then:
Thephrase is displayed and all buttons go back to the first state.
I am using this list every time a button is hit and also based upon other environment message etc. So it needs to be fast.
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