Collections?

[José Roca]

Hmm, only when office is installed..

If it is not installed, you can do it yourself:

Windows Script 5.6 for Windows XP and Windows 2000
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Windows Script 5.7 for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

[Edwin Knoppert]

Hmm, only when office is installed..

[Edwin Knoppert]

You can use the Dictionary object to build collections.

Is this the dictionary in scrrun.inc ?
(Microsoft Scripting Runtime)

?

[Edwin Knoppert]

Thanks,
At this moment to much work for this little task.
To busy

[Dominic Mitchell]

A collection is not a simple array.

Since we are talking COM here, what Steven posted is not a collection, but
the data managed by the collection object can take any form even an array.
The collection object should implement the following methods:

Count
Item
NewEnum(0xFFFFFFFC)
Add
Remove
Clear

Relatively easy to do using low-level COM. I think it is doable in PB9, but the
IDL file will have to be coded by hand.

[Steven Pringels 3]

Edwin,

Ok, I thought you were implementing an 'collection' like functionality in a class.

[Edwin Knoppert]

A collection is not a simple array.

[Steven Pringels 3]

class myclass

      instance myCol() 	  as iCollection
      instance m_ColCount as Long

      class method Create()
	  m_ColCount = 0
      end method 

      interface iMyclass
      inherit IDispatch


      method AddData(ByVal ClsCol as iCollection)

	  If IsObject(ClsCol) Then

             Incr m_ColCount

	     Redim Preserve m_Col(m_Colcount) as iCollection

             m_Col(m_ColCount - 1) = ClsCol

          End If

      end method 
      
      end interface

end class

[Edwin Knoppert]

I guess this would result in a different type..
Some object storage which needs to be casted.

I'll go for a simple object array or similar..

IDictionary also gives a lot of .NET examples

[José Roca]

You can use the Dictionary object to build collections.

[Edwin Knoppert]

Is there an easy example to show me how to prepare a collection?

I would like to create an 'items' propery.
Not sure if that is handy anyway, afaik foreach() is not supported at this time(?)

Or should i use an item method with index?

I would have a limitted collection so optimized enumeration is not that required at this time.
Though i find real collections the better thing to use.