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Re: Phix object arrays

• Posted by petelomax Feb 03, 2021
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/home/irv/pgtk/buttontest.ex:18 
buttons[1].label = "One"  
          ^ '=' expected 

The compiler needs a type hint, for example

Button b = buttons[1] 
b.label = "One" 

or maybe (you could also use a generic struct b parameter here)

procedure set_label(Button b, string label) 
    b.label = label 
end procedure 
set_label(buttons[1],"One") 

Unfortunately it's just not smart enough to figure out that buttons[1] is a Button instance, not entirely dissimilar to

    Button b = new()            -- ok 
--  buttons[i] = new()          -- not ok 
    buttons[i] = new(Button)    -- ok 

In fact, I'll go so far as to recommend this version of your above for loop (one more line, but also one less subscript):

for i = 1 to length(buttons) do  
  Button b = new() 
  buttons[i] = b 
  pan.add(b)  
end for