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Re: Structure field concatenation [message #21611 is a reply to message #21609]

Thu, 31 August 2000 09:12

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Ben Tupper (pemaquidriver@tidewater.net) writes:

> I know that this has been a subject of some discussion recently... but
> I'm still not on firm footing on the best method of changing the size of
> an anonymous structure's fields (i.e. I want to increase or decrease the
> size of a field). The code below shows an example of how I do it now:
> creating a new structure with the appropriately sized fields. Is there
> a better method?

No, no, no. A "better method!?" Yes, there is a better method. :-)

Here is a new rule for you.

ANY time you have a structure member changing either
size or data type, make that structure member a pointer.

struct = { fish: Ptr_New(runOfTheMillFish), ... }

Later, when something changes:

*struct.fish = sexyNewFish

All you have to do is remember to clean this pointer up
in some kind of cleanup routine, or before you exit the
program. And don't worry about cleaning up memory and
all of that when you make the new assignment. IDL is
going to take care of that for you. Isn't that nice? :-)

You must have taken my class a LONG time ago. It is
this kind of embarrassing nonsense that finally got
me off my duff and writing again. I'll send you a copy
of the new book (due out in September). :-)

> BTW: I don't want to steer the discourse toward a scandalous sidebar
> discussion, but... I'm wrestling with this because a shrimp starts out
> as a male and then ends up as a female a few years later. I'm working
> with a database that has the shrimp broken down into records by sex...
> but I need to add new records for aggregate sex (that is the sum of
> males, transitionals, females,...) I never thought IDL programming
> could be so titillating.

This kind of talk is TOTALLY inappropriate in this newsgroup.
Take it on over to alt.xxx.sex.fetish.fish.

Cheers,

David
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		Re: Structure field concatenation By: davidf on Tue, 05 September 2000 07:08
		Re: Structure field concatenation By: Amara Graps on Tue, 05 September 2000 05:47
		Re: Structure field concatenation By: Ben Tupper on Thu, 31 August 2000 13:52
		Re: Structure field concatenation By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 31 August 2000 10:57
		Re: Structure field concatenation By: davidf on Thu, 31 August 2000 09:50
		Re: Structure field concatenation By: promashkin on Thu, 31 August 2000 09:22
		Re: Structure field concatenation By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 31 August 2000 09:28
		Re: Structure field concatenation By: davidf on Thu, 31 August 2000 09:12
		Re: Structure field concatenation By: Amara Graps on Wed, 06 September 2000 06:31

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