Expandability

[ags131]

I would like to see a way for us to be able to write DLL's in VB, C, or some other language and be able to use them in thyme. And thyme needs a way to split strings! Similar to the left(), right(), and mid() commands in VB.

[link0007]

Program the string splitting yourself.. you can access strings like char arrays.

[standardtoaster]

Can you tell us how you would access strings like an array?

[link0007]

Hm, thought you could do that. but don't see how anymore.

[RA2lover]

you could make the string an array with quotes for that.
then you could remove the quotes and voila!

[standardtoaster]

And how would you remove the quotes? If it's a string such as "a" and you remove the quotes you are going to get a. Algodoo will then try and find a and it won't be able to and return an error. But I do get what you're saying.

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scene.my.text=["t", "e", "s", "t"]
scene.my.text(0) = "t"
scene.my.text(1) = "e"
scene.my.text(2) = "s"
scene.my.text(3) = "t"

[ags131]

But how do you turn a normal string into an array without recoding an entire scene?

[RA2lover]

Dunno, but algodoo still has some helpful functions for that

math.tofloat - transforms a boolean or a string into a float value(ex: "112.62" would turn 112.62)
math.tobool - transforms integers(0 and 1) and strings into boolean values(ex: 1 or "true" becomes true)
math.tostring - transforms booleans, integers and floats into strings(ex: 1 would become "1", true would become "true")