Pre-Populating an Integer Array in Axcess

TurnipTruck

Greetings,

How do you pre-popultate an Integer array in Axcess?

DEFINE_VARIABLE

INTEGER nARRAY [10][21] (*Create a 10 arrays of 21 integer positions*)

DEFINE_START

nARRAY [1]={1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21}

nARRAY [2]={1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21}

...So on and so forth...


This does not work. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Joe Hebert

Hi TurnipTruck,

This will take care of the first two "rows"

DEFINE_VARIABLE

INTEGER nARRAY [10][21] = {
   {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19, 20,21},
   {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19, 20,21}
}

Joe

dchristo

Originally posted by Joe Hebert
Hi TurnipTruck,

This will take care of the first two "rows"

DEFINE_VARIABLE

INTEGER nARRAY [10][21] = {
   {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19, 20,21},
   {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19, 20,21}
}

Joe

This would be dandy in Netlinx, but not in Axcess. TurnipTruck, you're close with your code... only replace the curly braces { } with double quotes " " in your Define_Start section.

--D

Joe Hebert

Originally posted by dchristo
This would be dandy in Netlinx, but not in Axcess.

Oops. Thanks for the correction, Dave.

Joe

TurnipTruck

Thanks dchristo. I first tried it the Netlinx way, then realized I needed to try something different. I will try the double quotes tonight. :]

[Deleted User]

Arrray filling

You are on the right track!
With a string array this would be fine but an integer array you will have to set each cells value or use a medium_while to set the values if they are infact incrimental as you show in your example. i.e.

TCOUNT=1
MEDIUM_WHILE(TCOUNT<128)
{ LX_PRE[1][TCOUNT]=TCOUNT
LX_PRE[2][TCOUNT]=TCOUNT+1
TCOUNT=TCOUNT+1
}

TurnipTruck

The values are not incremental. They are preset values for a lighting system, no pattern that could be used in a loop. If I truly have to assign each value, it will be lot of code, 210 variable assignments to be exact. There must be a way to each array as a group.

If anyone has any other suggestion, please chime in!

Thank you.

DHawthorne

Do they really need to be integers? If your highest value is 255, you can use a string array and just treat the single elements as CHAR data types. If you try assigning an integer type to a string in Axcess though, it will truncate every value over 255 to 255.

TurnipTruck

Thats a good point. In fact, the dimming system I am working with receives its levels as ASCII. Making the arrays CHAR instead of INTEGER saves an ITOA step for each dimming channel during a preset recall. How would the definition look in Axcess??...

cARRAY[21][3]={1,2,3,4...}

I did try:

INTEGER nARRAY[21]="1,2,3...."

It did not give me a compiling error. I have not yet had the time to see if the program will actuall work that way.