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   Tarshana

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   Limited help with this file as it is a modder's resource. Feel free to modify it and send it back if there are bugs you fix.
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      Some of the original discussions preserved
      
      Craig Graff
      
      Posted at 11:15 PM on 2010-02-03
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      If you notice any problems, please post them here and I will fix them as quickly as possible.
      
      
      Sunjammer
      
      Posted at 07:39 AM on 2010-02-04
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      In MassStorage_FetchLocation you have the line:
      
      int nPos = FindSubString(sVariableName, sVariableName);
      
      It should be:
      
      int nPos = FindSubString(sTokenString, sVariableName);
      
      
      Craig Graff
      
      Posted at 09:42 PM on 2010-02-04
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      Sunjammer said:
      
      In MassStorage_FetchLocation you have the line:
      int nPos = FindSubString(sVariableName, sVariableName);
      It should be:
      int nPos = FindSubString(sTokenString, sVariableName);
      
      Fixed.
      
      
      Kyoma4
      
      Posted at 08:10 AM on 2010-02-05
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      This looks great, I've been looking for a way to store a list of objects and I couldn't get an int[] variable to work from inside the .gda file. This looks like exactly the thing I need. Good work. *smile*
      
      [edit]
      Got a question about the _TalGetStorageCache function. At the end there is this bit
      
      [/edit]
      
      -kyoma
      
      
      Craig Graff
      
      Posted at 11:05 AM on 2010-02-05
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      Kyoma4 said:
      
      
      Got a question about the _TalGetStorageCache function. At the end there is this bit
      
      -kyoma
      
      Which bit is that?
      
      
      Kyoma4
      
      Posted at 05:20 AM on 2010-02-06
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      Woops sorry, forgot to post the rest. Um well there is the following block and I didn't quite understand what purpose it served. Mainly because it only runs if nCache is non-0, but what difference would there be between the standard, 0, cache and additional, non-0, caches? *unsure*
      
      if (!nCache)
      {
      CreateItemOnObject(TAL_STORAGE_ITEM_RESOURCE, oStorage, 300, "", TRUE, FALSE);
      StoreObjectInArray(TAL_STORAGE_ITEM_CACHE_TAG, oStorage, 0);
      object oMainCache = _TalGetStorageCache(1);
      StoreObjectInArray(TAL_STORAGE_ITEM_CACHE_TAG, oMainCache, 1);
      #ifdef TALMUD_STORAGE_DEBUG_INTERNAL
      PrintToLog("_TalGetStorageCache: storage cache inventory size: " + ToString(GetArraySize(GetItemsInInventory(oStorage))));
      FetchObjectArray(TAL_STORAGE_ITEM_CACHE_TAG);
      #endif
      }
      
      
      Craig Graff
      
      Posted at 01:45 PM on 2010-02-06
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      The base cache is used to store load information and keep track of the array of other cache placeables. It is also what holds the inventory of items which act as the means of locating a particular cache.
      Unlike all the other caches (of which there could be just one or many if people go crazy), the main cache placeable doesn't hold any of the effects for the user-made caches, since if it got overloaded the entire system would be slow.
      
      
      Kyoma4
      
      Posted at 12:19 PM on 2010-02-11
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      Have a question, or perhaps a request depending on the anwser. I'm storing several values (both integers and strings) in an array with StoreIntegerInArray and StoreStringInArray. Before I'm storing them I need to know they aren't already stored.
      
      I found the FetchXXX functions but they seem to use an integer, as in, to be used to fetch whatever value is at that slot/index. Is there a way to 'search' an array for a value or should I just add something of my own?
      
      
      Craig Graff
      
      Posted at 04:52 PM on 2010-02-13
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      How big is the array? You could always use FetchIntegerArray and then GetIntArrayIndex to find if the value already exists in the array. This loops through each value in the array until it finds the one you specify and returns either the array index the value occupies or -1 if nothing is found. You could copy the code for GetIntArrayIndex for strings as well if it is a fairly small array.
      If the array is a bit larger you might be better off storing each value as the name of StoreInteger variable (with the same cache name as the array if you like) and have the value stored be the array slot. Then when you want to check if the value is in the array, just call FetchInteger(sArrayName, IntToString(nValue)) or FetchInteger(sArrayName, sValue).
      If you are a number of values at once, you would be using a combination of the MassStorage_* functions and the Fetch*Array and Store*Array functions (as opposed to StoreIntInArray or the other single variable functions), otherwise things will get slow.
      
      
      Phaenan
      
      Posted at 06:17 AM on 2010-03-02
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      Pfew, finally managed to get my head around the base concept. smilie
      
      Cheers for sharing this. Really. I never thought of using effects to store "global" vars, even though I did use the SetEffectThingy in spells. Don't know why it didn't jumpstart my brain when I was looking for persistent arrays and went all my way building arrays from a bunch of localvars...
      
      Anyhoo ! Nothing important because the function header is correct, but you have a typo on the FetchStringArray() implementation :
      http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/1819/typoq.png
      instead of string[] yada yada.