Using [Obj obj] in Director

[Carl Lydon]

Hi,

This may be a bit off topic but here goes...

I'm converting a Director project from the MUS to Smartfox. I'm able to open up these [Obj obj] black boxes on the Flash side, and construct arrays to be sent to Director, but it's clunky. I'd rather have Director grab objects from the Flash sprite and then open them up on the Director side. The problem is that I can't find the lingo equivelent of:

for (var i in lUsersObj) {
//Get each user from the userlist
luser = (lUsersObj[i]);
Lname = luser["name"]+"";
id = luser["id"]+"";
}

specifically, what is th elingo equivelent of:

for (var i in lUsersObj) {

???

I can get the Flash object in, and some of them I can get properties for if I know the structure, but with a userlists I can't get the length of the array using userlist.length, or count(userlist) because it's like a property list using the pID number, which can be anything from 0 to a million....

I hope this makes sense. Any ideas?

[potmo]

to do this

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for (var i in lUsersObj) {
 luser = (lUsersObj[i]);
trace(luser["name"])
}


in lingo you do this

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repeat with luser in lUserObj
put luser.name
end repeat

This is when you have a list (lUserObj) structured like this

[[#name:"Bill", #age:12], [#name: "Fred", #age: 99], [#name: "frank", #age: 118]]

(and you can have objects instread of propLists in that list)

Its worse if lUserOj is an Object instead of an list.
Then you will have to do something like this i think.

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repeat with i = 1 to lUserObj.count
tKey = lUserObj.getPropAt(i)
tValue  = luserObj[i]
end repeat

it might work with "repeat with x in y" on objects as well. That you will have to test.

Good Luck!

[Carl Lydon]

That was a head scratcher for me. This will make my code cleaner and more flexible. Thanks!

[Carl Lydon]

I'm having a hard time.

I tried:

gRoomObj= sprite(gSFSprt).getVariable("gRoomObj", false)
gUsers = gRoomObj.getUserList()
put gUsers.ilk
repeat with user in gUsers
put "user=" && user.name
end repeat
end repeat

The gRoomObj comes in fine. The getUserList() function seems to work fine ; I don't get an error for that and gUsers.ilk= #FlashObject.

But I don't get any results from the repeat loop; it seems like it doesn't iterate through even once, so the "user in gUsers" isn't working.

User is another object. gRoomObj contains a userlist object that contains an object for each user.

Also, count(gUser) and gUser.length both come out <void> so that won't work.

gRoomObj.getUserCount() does work for seeign how many users are in the room.


-Carl

[Carl Lydon]

Oh well, that doesn't work. For now I'll go back to what I was doing before, which was extracting each user from the userlist on the Flash side and arranging them in a sensible linear list that I can then grab on the Director side and iterate through in a normal way...

[potmo]

if you can wait until tomorrow i can send you my Director API for smartfox, im not at work right now.

Anyway if anyone else wants it its almoust done. Anyone can get it for free under some kind of "GNU public licence" if you promise to redistribute your contributions.

[Carl Lydon]

Yes, and we should talk about you doing an article on using SF in Director for

Shockwaveserver.com

I imagine you're the top expert on that, and it's a very specialized topic that is hard to find information on.