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voxoff YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	dinamyc variable creation Apr 1st, 2010, 3:35am   Hi to you all! I´m new width processing and i was wondering how can i do this in proce55ing. in actionscript i use this sintaxe: for(i=0;i<10;i++){ this["name"+i]=10; } in processing how can i dinamicly create the variable name!! thanks in advance! vox

martin_p Junior Member Offline Posts: 70 UK	Re: dinamyc variable creation Reply #1 - Apr 1st, 2010, 3:53am   April fool surely Not in the same league as the Steve Jobs IPad joke though.

antiplastik YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 699 France	Re: dinamyc variable creation Reply #2 - Apr 1st, 2010, 4:08am   (doesn't look like a joke since it's not funny at all) Array keys must be integers. You may want to use hashmaps instead of arrays : http://processing.org/reference/HashMap.html

voxoff YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	Re: dinamyc variable creation Reply #3 - Apr 1st, 2010, 4:21am   thanks for the response, but you didn't understand my question. I want to create ten instances of a object with this names: name1, name2, name3... etc for(int i=0; i<10; i++){ this["name"+i]=new myObject(); } thanks

martin_p Junior Member Offline Posts: 70 UK

Re: dinamyc variable creation Reply #4 - Apr 1st, 2010, 5:26am   Still looks a bit fishy to me, best one I've seen to today is the linux kernel, where they've turned the text upside down.http://userweb.kernel.org/~warthog9/april1/2010/ It would interesting to know how create the upside down text. I reckon it must have taken a lot of work all images etc were individually reversed (like it was genuine html conent!!!).

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PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: dinamyc variable creation Reply #5 - Apr 1st, 2010, 6:03am   voxoff wrote on Apr 1st, 2010, 4:21am: I want to create ten instances of a object with this names: name1, name2, name3... etc I don't see the usefulness. Just make an array name[] and use indexes in it.