Looping Over Groups?

[Jim Biancolo]

Thanks Ken, that's perfect.  It's not quite the behavior I'd expect being 
used to other languages (I thought by referencing my group in the "repeat" 
structure it would implicitly reference elements in that group during 
iteration), but I think I'm finally getting into the spirit of this language.

:-)

At 10:59 PM 9/23/2002 -0500, Ken Ray wrote:
>Jim,
>
>Try this for your second line:
>
>   answer the name of image i in group "players_group"
>
>The problem is that the number of the images change when you add an image to
>the card.
>
>Ken Ray
>Sons of Thunder Software
>Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Biancolo" <webmaster at listology.com>
>To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:05 PM
>Subject: Re: Looping Over Groups?
>
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've run into an additional problem here, and I hope you can help . . .
> >
> > I've created a group of 14 images.  As advised, I loop over them like so:
> >
> >      repeat with i = 1 to the number of images in group "players_group"
> >        answer the name of image i
> >      end repeat
> >
> > Works great.  When I click on the "Object --> Edit Group" menu, all 14
>show
> > up as expected.
> >
> > However, when I add another image to the card (but not to the group) and
> > run the same code, the new image is included in the loop (even though it's
> > NOT in the group), and the last image in the group is not (even though it
> > should be).  When I click on the "Object --> Edit Group" command my
> > original 14 images are there and the new image is not, which is what I'd
> > expect.  It's the looping behavior that is not what I'd expect.  It seems
> > (just guessing though) to be pulling the image at positions 1 through 14
> > regardless of whether or not they are in the group.  Am I doing something
> > wrong, or is there another approach I should be taking?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > At 03:42 PM 9/18/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> > >At 3:09 PM -0700 9/18/2002, Jim Biancolo wrote:
> > > >Is there a way to loop over the images in a group?  I tried these:
> > > >
> > > >    repeat for each image I in group "my_group"
> > > >    repeat for each item I in group "my_group"
> > > >    repeat for each object O in group "players_group"
> > > >
> > > >All failed to compile.  Then I hit on:
> > > >
> > > >    repeat for each element E in group "players_group"
> > > >
> > > >It compiled, but then when I tried to run it I got this error:
> > > >
> > > >    Error description:  Chunk: source is not a container
> > > >
> > > >I fear I'm missing something obvious.  Any advice?
> > >
> > >I think people have been so enthusiastic about advising the efficient
> > >"repeat for each" form that the other forms have gotten a little
>eclipsed.
> > >;-)
> > >
> > >The "repeat for each" form can be used to iterate over chunks in a
>string -
> > >characters, words, lines, items - or over each element in an array, but
>it
> > >can't be used to iterate over objects. The first and third variations you
> > >tried wouldn't compile because "repeat for each image" and "repeat for
>each
> > >object" aren't valid forms of the repeat loop. The second one, "repeat
>for
> > >each item", is valid... but in this context, an "item" is a part of a
> > >string, not an object, so this doesn't work either. And the fourth, while
>a
> > >valid form, requires an array, not a group reference.
> > >
> > >Here's a form that will work:
> > >
> > >   repeat with x = 1 to the number of images in group "my_group"
> > >     answer the name of image x -- or whatever
> > >   end repeat
> > >
> > >--
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