[Gambas-user] drove me crazy

[Benoît Minisini]

> Am Dienstag, den 19.01.2010, 17:30 -0700 schrieb Dimitris Anogiatis:
> > Hey Charlie,
> >
> > Try changing this line
> >
> >      sKey = col1.Key
> >
> > to
> >
> >      sKey = sElem.Key
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dimitris
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Charlie Reinl <Karl.Reinl at ...2363...
net.de>wrote:
> > > Salut Benoit,
> > >
> > > its about Collection KEY and Debug-Window on gambas2.
> > >
> > > If you run that project, and open col1 and col2 in a Debug-Window
> > > (DBl-Click on the var), the Collection Key is always the last
> > > enumerated element.
> > >
> > > If you run it without Debug-Window or only col2 in a Debug-Window , the
> > > Collection Key is the last read.
> > >
> > > PUBLIC SUB Main()
> > > DIM col1 AS NEW Collection
> > > DIM col2 AS NEW Collection
> > > DIM sElem AS String
> > > DIM sKey AS String
> > >  col1.Add("1", "one")
> > >  col1.Add("2", "two")
> > >  col1.Add("3", "three")
> > >  col1.Add("4", "four")
> > >  PRINT "Returns the key of the last read or last enumerated element. "
> > >   FOR EACH sElem IN col1
> > >      sKey = col1.Key
> > >      PRINT sKey & " = " & sElem
> > >      col2.Add(sElem, sKey)
> > >   NEXT
> > > END
> > >
> > > see attached project.
> > > --
> > > Amicalement
> > > Charlie
> > >
> > > [OperatingSystem]
> > > OperatingSystem=Linux
> > > KernelRelease=2.6.24-26-generic
> > > DistributionVendor=ubuntu
> > > DistributionRelease="Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS"
> > >
> > > [System]
> > > CPUArchitecture=i686
> > > TotalRam=506932 kB
> > >
> > > [Gambas]
> > > Gambas1=gbx-1.0.17
> > > Gambas1Path=/usr/bin/gbx
> > >
> > > Gambas2=2.19.0                  rev.2613
> > > Gambas2Path=/usr/local/bin/gbx2
> > >
> > > Gambas3=2.99.0                  rev.2602 (can't compile actually)
> > > Gambas3Path=/usr/local/bin/gbx3
> 
> Salut Dimitris,
> 
> no can't work like that , sElem is 'only' a String.
> 
> It is like written in the doc,
> "Returns the key of the last read or last enumerated element."
> The  problem is, I think, that the Debug-Window loops the collection,
> (every time I move in the collection), to refresh all members, so when I
> try to set the 'sKey = col1.Key' the last element was read and its KEY
> returned.
> The Watch-Window shows the right value. But also the col1 collection in
> the Watch-Window 'derange' to find the right col1.key
> 

Yes, that is exactly the problem. But I don't see any good fix for Gambas 2 at 
the moment. For Gambas 3, I can change the behaviour of Collection.Key so that 
it returns the last enumerated element, not the last read one (the debugger 
does not enumerate the collection, it just read it).

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini