Double combined array and struct

[Atelier]

Hi, I'm rewriting the way my text game works, so all the data is catalogued in scripts rather than defined in individual rooms. I already know something like the following is possible:

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quest[1].log[4] = "You spoke to Lord Woodfoot, who made it clear the gnomes will come to feast at Meyrnost if their vegan lifestyle is catered for.";

Each location can have items in it, so I would like to take the above a step further by doing something like the following:

Code: ags

loc[2].name = "Meyrnost Athenium";

loc[2].item[1].name = "Borromdock";
loc[2].item[1].desc = "A sweet smelling plant.";
loc[2].item[1].pickup = true;

Is this possible? I want to have the room items in a sub-class of the location (loc) class.

[Khris]

Unfortunately not, structs can't have structs as members.

The only alternative is:

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  item[i(2, 1)].name = "Bottomdock";

where i(int loc, int item) will turn the parameters into an index. Say there are less than 100 items per location, then i would simply return loc*100+item.

[monkey0506]

Are you familiar with multidimensional array indexing techniques for AGS? The basic idea (for a 2D array) is:

For a multidimensional array:

int array[A][B];

And:

... array[a][b] ...

Your index would be:

index = (a * B) + b;

For further dimensions it gets exponentially more complex and I'm on a bus..

But this technique could work for you.

LeKhris LeBeat me to LePost, but I don't LeCare.

[Atelier]

Ah ok, I'll try those. Thanks