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Libervurto
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Posted: 18th Feb 2013 12:13
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This is a bit messy: shipClass(ship(shipsel(1)).class).name it gets the name of the class of the ship that is currently selected. Is there a better way to structure this? I need class to be a number for other reasons.

Could I do something like: ship(shipsel(1)).class.name?

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TheComet
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Posted: 18th Feb 2013 17:55
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Yes, you can nest UDTs:



Quote: "I need class to be a number for other reasons."


Instead of using "class", you'll have to use "class.index", otherwise it won't work.

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Libervurto
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Posted: 18th Feb 2013 18:24
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oooooooh thanks.

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MrValentine
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Posted: 18th Feb 2013 18:32
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Ahahahahaah typo there TheComet? ^^ I was going to mention Composite and Nested UDTs too, but I am so new to them that I decided not to post earlier, thank you for confirming this I was going to mention Arrays as an alternative...



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Libervurto
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Posted: 18th Feb 2013 19:21
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Do I have to set the class.name for each ship or is there a way to set up an association between index and name? So if class.index = 1 then class.name = name$[1]
This is not really important, I'm just wondering what can be done with types.

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TheComet
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Posted: 18th Feb 2013 20:02
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You can use a UDT to reference an array index, if that's what you're asking.

The only limitation I found with UDTs is you can't have an array inside a type declaration. My work-around for that was usually to just create another UDT for that array, and then link them together later on.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 18th Feb 2013 21:29
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Something I should point out that I just discovered the other day. While you can pass a UDT variable into a function, you cannot pass a UDT defined array element into the function.




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Nytus Sermus
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Posted: 19th Feb 2013 10:59 Edited at: 19th Feb 2013 11:00
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@ Phaelax, not to be captain obvious but you should just assign the array's indexed variable to a temp variable before calling the function:



anyway the simplest workaround

You could be done already.....stop trying to re-invent the wheel.
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Phaelax
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Posted: 19th Feb 2013 17:39
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I know that, never said it wasn't possible to work around it. But it's an annoyance. Just don't forget to define 'temp' as the same data type. (your example forgot that)

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