Declare fields in a structure

[sphiller]

I'm starting to convert a large VBA project into OOBasic, and it mostly looks straightforward; however, i've hit a stumbling block because I have a number of structures declared with arrays in them, and the OO compiler says I can't have arrays inside of structs. So I'm not at all sure how to work around this.

For example, I have these structures:

Type FieldPairType
fieldName As String
fieldValue As String
End Type


Type FieldsListType
fieldCnt As Integer
fieldsAllocated As Integer
fields() As FieldPairType
End Type

And I dynamically resize (ReDim) the fields array as required when working with this type. The compiler won't allow me to declare fields() inside the structure. There's got to be a way around this, but I don't see it yet. I guess i can turn FieldPairType into a class and then make fields a linked list of objects, but I've got more than a few structures that work this way, and that means a lot of extra work.

Is there an easier way to handle a dynamically sized 'array' of values inside a structure in OO Basic?

[pitonyak]

On 08/22/2009 04:31 PM, sphiller wrote:

> I'm starting to convert a large VBA project into OOBasic, and it mostly looks
> straightforward; however, i've hit a stumbling block because I have a number
> of structures declared with arrays in them, and the OO compiler says I can't
> have arrays inside of structs. So I'm not at all sure how to work around
> this.
>
> For example, I have these structures:
>
> Type FieldPairType
> fieldName As String
> fieldValue As String
> End Type
>
>
> Type FieldsListType
> fieldCnt As Integer
> fieldsAllocated As Integer
> fields() As FieldPairType
> End Type
>
> And I dynamically resize (ReDim) the fields array as required when working
> with this type. The compiler won't allow me to declare fields() inside the
> structure. There's got to be a way around this, but I don't see it yet. I
> guess i can turn FieldPairType into a class and then make fields a linked
> list of objects, but I've got more than a few structures that work this way,
> and that means a lot of extra work.
>
> Is there an easier way to handle a dynamically sized 'array' of values
> inside a structure in OO Basic?
>    

Have you tried using a variant type and assigning an array to it? I do
not know if this will work or not. i think that I tried this some years
back, but I do not remember the outcome.

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