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action_owl Junior Member Offline Posts: 55 IN	definition app, best approach Feb 2nd, 2009, 4:21pm   I'm making a dictionary applet that has around 690 entries, I was thinking that the most efficient method would be to load the definitions into an array. Is there a better approach? I think that using an external text file will not work too well, this is an applet for mobile.processing
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koogy God Member Offline Posts: 788	Re: definition app, best approach Reply #1 - Feb 2nd, 2009, 4:40pm   does mobile.processing have hashmaps?

action_owl Junior Member Offline Posts: 55 IN	Re: definition app, best approach Reply #2 - Feb 2nd, 2009, 6:01pm   I think so, I found this post in the forum: "Seems like I have to use java.util.Hashtable instead. Would be nice if hashes where a part of processing." I am unfamiliar with "hashmaps", I will look into this term some more
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action_owl Junior Member Offline Posts: 55 IN	Re: definition app, best approach Reply #3 - Feb 2nd, 2009, 6:20pm   looks like the hashtable will work I found some java examples that worked, and it seems like a much more clean-cut method than using arrays would be thanks koogs
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PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: definition app, best approach Reply #4 - Feb 3rd, 2009, 1:03am   HashMap is the modern cousin of old, slightly obsolete Hashtable. And about your quote: Processing supports hashes, and all Java collections. Not as easily as JavaScript or PHP does, but still efficiently.