Adding/editing arrays...

I'm looking to have a random quote generator on my game on the pause screen - one that will bring up random game reviews from (at first) friends and family. The quote would consist of their review over a couple of lines, plus their Twitter name on the line below.

Am I right in thinking I can use an array for this rather than a separate database? I've dropped in the array Object into Object Types but I can find the Array Editor - where is this?

Also - as I'm guessing I'll be dropping the review in the 0 column and the Twitter name in the 1 column - would I call up the random review using something similar to:

Array > Set Review to choose(0,1,2,3,4,5)

Cheers all

You can just do this with normal events that relate to setting variables or text, I don't think you need to use an array. There is no array editor, you push the data you want into the array during runtime. If you want to use an array I imagine you would 'choose' a number for x and y, then assign them to a curx, cury from the array.

You can find the array editor on the right side in the Project window. Right click on files and choose new > Array

You can then load this file on to the array object by using Ajax.

This action will get the Array content:

-> AJAX: Request quotes.json (tag "quotes")

Then load it on to the array like this.

+ AJAX: On "quotes" completed

-> Array: Load from JSON string AJAX.LastData

You can also use Dictionary object instead of array. If you only use a 1 dimensional array.

Thanks guys - I've looked into this and I think Arrays are the better route than Dictionaries as arrays can have multiple columns whereas dictionaries only seem to have a key and a value.

You can find the array editor on the right side in the Project window. Right click on files and choose new > Array

You can then load this file on to the array object by using Ajax.

This action will get the Array content:

-> AJAX: Request quotes.json (tag "quotes")

Then load it on to the array like this.

+ AJAX: On "quotes" completed

-> Array: Load from JSON string AJAX.LastData

In regards to the AJAX actions above, how do I add them to the events sheet? There's no mention of AJAX in the Add Condition pop-up box, or am I looking at this wrong and there's another way to do this? Essentially, where do I add the actions you outlined above?

Thanks all

OK - I found the Array object in the Add Condition pop-up but I'm still in the dark as to what/where I add the events.

Here's a look at my basic array titled ReviewArray:

On the Properties in the layout I have two text objects (ReviewQuote and ReviewName) - Column 0 should post to ReviewQuote and column 1 should post to ReviewName.

All - is there anyone who can help me on this?

I've no idea what I'm meant to be putting in the event sheet.

I'm guessing it starts off with:

Array > ? > ? > ?

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

ReviewQuote set text to ""&array.at(0,0) would display "Blah blah blah"

ReviewName set text to ""&array.at(0,1) would display "Mr Grumpy"

OK - I've done that:

But this just brings up the values of 0 and 0.

I'm guessing I need to attach or refer to the array first - how do I do that?

Also, how would I get it to select both values from random rows rather from specific rows?

It displays the value at 0 because that's the co-ords I gave in the example, nothing specific was asked for. If you want to display a random quote you would probably create a function, before which you set the review parameter to a random number and pass it through as array.at(param(0), 0). You can pass through another param for the name as array.at(param(1),1). You don't have to use a function, you can just set two variables to a random number and assign the co-ordinates to array.at(var1,0) and array.at(var2,1) but I prefer to use functions for things like this.

I think you're not really doing it right.

I created a simple example for you how to load the json to an array and how to display it as a text.

Hope this helps.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fy75e5vrxst7t ... y.c3p?dl=0

I think you're trying to do a quote generator like this.

So I updated the file a little bit.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fy75e5vrxst7t ... y.c3p?dl=1

Click the button to get a random quote.

Tunepunk - thats absolutely brilliant - exactly what I was looking for - I can now amend this to fit how I want it to fit in my game.

Also you've showed me exactly how to attach and call an array in the event sheet - thanks so much for that!

Just a nod to say this helped me enormously with loading the file for the array - the manual entry on Arrays doesn't even hint about needing the Ajax plugin to load the file and my array was always full of zeros.