Equivalent syntax using a class ?

[David.Poundall]

Can anyone enlighten me as to a class based syntax that will allow me to do the equivalent of this...

Public Type SomethingElse
    Index as Long
    Order as Long
    Ref as String
EndType

Public Type Something
    Name as String
    Group() as SomethingElse
End type

Public Thing as Something

Thanks in advance

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[David.Poundall]

The only thing that I can come up with myself is...

    Something_Name As String
    Something_Group As Long
          ' Use the Group value as an index as a pointer 
          ' to the following one D arrays
          Index() As Long
          Order() As Long
          Ref() As String

is there another way ?

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[_visual_basic_]

im sorry but you cant make user difened types public in class i dont know why. but i do know that it sux

[MartinLiss]

Not exactly what you want but maybe it will give you ideas.

[David.Poundall]

Yep - it sucks alright. I shall have to stick to Globals for my complex types then I fear. Thanks _visual_basic_

[MartinLiss]

I left out something(else).

[David.Poundall]

Hmm. I hadn't though of taking the next level into a different class. Thanks for the left field approach Marty.

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[MartinLiss]

You could also probably create a collection of CSomething objects and use Name as the key to the collection.

[David.Poundall]

I am ending up doing something similar using a directory type instead of the SomethingElse class. Name will be the index within the directory (EDIT oops -I meant Dictionary) type.

BTW, Merry Christmas Marty

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[_visual_basic_]

what is dictionary?

[David.Poundall]

Dictionary is a type of collection that has better exposrure of the indexes. It happens to be faster than collections but not as fast as arrays.

Do a search of the forum. There has been some recent posts on the subject.

[David.Poundall]

here you go....

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...97#post1861797

[_visual_basic_]

sweet...
where can i get the file that contains dictionary?

[David.Poundall]

It comes in the same reference as FSO (namely, scrrun.dll).

The syntax it is different enough from collections that you will find yourself scratching your head at the start.

But definitely a usefull tool to have in the box.

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