topic Re: Tips for saving writing code in GDL

Tips for saving writing code

jc4d — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 08:53:33 GMT

Hello

I have a set of hideparameters that change depending on what option is checked (hope it makes sense)

Here i have an example in the parameter script:

IF no_shelf_1 = 1 THEN HIDEPARAMETER "ShelfStyles_1" HIDEPARAMETER "Shelf_1_Bottom_Limit" ENDIF IF no_shelf_2 = 1 THEN HIDEPARAMETER "ShelfStyles_2" HIDEPARAMETER "Shelf_2_Bottom_Limit" ENDIF IF no_shelf_3 = 1 THEN HIDEPARAMETER "ShelfStyles_3" HIDEPARAMETER "Shelf_3_Bottom_Limit" ENDIF

As you can see in the example above, if I need to add more "IF no_shelf_x" then I have to modify the ShelfStyles_3 to ShelfStyles_x and Shelf_3_Bottom_Limit to Shelf_x_Bottom_Limit and it is a real pain to do it by hand.

So my question is if there is a better way to do this using loops for example?

Juan.

Re: Tips for saving writing code

runxel — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 13:50:11 GMT

Have "no_shelf" as an array parameter, so you can loop over all indices, then do some string manipulating:

for i=1 to vardim1(no_shelf) if no_shelf[i] then foo = "shelfstyles_" + str("%~", i) hideparameter foo endif next i

Re: Tips for saving writing code

jc4d — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 05:02:40 GMT

Thank you, I will test it as soon as I get a chance. 😊