Storing an list of images in an element in an array

ID:2060886
 
Mar 28 2016, 7:37 am
Code:
var/list/clientimages=list()
mob
    verb
        ImageTest()
            if(!clientimages["Dope"])
                for(var/turf/T in range())
                    var/list/l=new
                    l.Add(clientimages["Image Test"],image('Piece.dmi',T,"cover"))
                    clientimages["Image Test"]=l
                //src<<clientimages["Dope"]
                src.client.images+=clientimages["Dope"]
                spawn(30)
                src.client.images-=clientimages["Dope"]


Problem description:
Basically I want to be able to display and remove a list of images from a usr with a line of code. The list of images are stored in an array. I was seeing if theirs a plausible way of doing this, so I can avoid looping through a list to display the images.
Mar 28 2016, 9:54 am
You should be adding clientimages["Image Test"] to client.images.
Mar 28 2016, 9:58 am
Is that not what this line is doing?
src.client.images+=clientimages["Dope"]
Mar 28 2016, 10:18 am
In response to Fat Albert
Not at all. clientimages["Dope"] is not the same as clientimages["Image Test"].
Mar 28 2016, 10:22 am
lol
Mar 28 2016, 10:24 am
ok, I can't seem to associate an array to a list...
Mar 28 2016, 10:35 am
In response to Fat Albert
List associations are pretty much the same as variable accesses.
// define 
mob/var/blah

// create a new empty list (can also be written as var/list/data = new)
var data[0]

// set the blah variable of some_mob
some_mob.blah = 123

// (add and) set the value associated to the key "blah" 
data["blah"] = 123

// read and output the blah variable of some_mob
world << some_mob.blah

// read and output the value associated to the key "blah"
world << data["blah"]
Mar 28 2016, 10:36 am
Okay, I found the problem
mob
    verb
        ImageTest()
            if(!clientimages["Image Test"])
                clientimages["Image Test"]=new//the part I was missing.
                for(var/turf/T in range())
                    var/list/l=new
                    l.Add(clientimages["Image Test"],image('Piece.dmi',T,"cover"))
                    clientimages["Image Test"]=l
                //src<<clientimages["Dope"]
                src.client.images+=clientimages["Image Test"]
                spawn(30)
                src.client.images-=clientimages["Image Test"]


I needed to initialize the list, it keep telling me runtime error: wrong type of value for list. I thought setting the setting the clientimages["Image Test"] to the variable l would of made it a list. Thanks a lot, I'm glad I figured this out.