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EngoTom
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15 years ago

Quick Brightscript questions

Question 1, How do I cast a string to an int? if "1" > 2 'do something end if Question 2, how do I pass a reference to a variable? From my poster screen I pass an roArray to the scring...
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kbenson
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15 years ago
"TheEndless" wrote:

All objects are passed by reference, but as far as my testing has gone, it seems the data used for display is a copy, so you'll need to call SetContent and/or SetContentList again with the updated data to get the Poster and Springboard screens to update.


I imagine since components are supposed to be implemented in C/C++ that they are converting the data structures to a native format for the component, copying implicitly.

We routinely use shortcuts like so in KidPaint for purely brightscript constructs:

config = {
  ui: {
    tools: {
      shape: { img: "file_path", size: "size_data", handler: "handler_routine" }
      stamps: { img: "file_path", size: "size_data", handler: "handler_routine" }
    }
  }
}

shapeMeta = config.ui.tools.shape
shapeMeta.handler = "new_handler_routine"
print config.ui.tools.shape.handler ' prints "new_handler_routine"