Create user defined object - and read from it

stefangas · **Posted:** October 25th, 2013, 9:14 pm

Hi there

For a Hidden Object Game I need to keep the history of graphical objects on several pages in the game. For example if a user picks up a coin in a room, then later returns to that room, his saved game should have saved the "state" of the coin in the room, for example:

Code:

room1State = new Object(); //this is the user defined object
room1State.coin1 = false; 
room1State.coin2 = true; //coin was picked up

Using the following code I can "inspect" the object I created:

Code:

for (property in object){
    Debug.trace(property + "  "  + object[property] + "\n");
}

The output in the Debug window for the above code is:

Quote:

valueOf [Function built-in]
toString [Function built-in]
constructor [Function constructor]
coin2 true
coin1 false

The above code sort of works, except for the "Function built-in" references? How can I "print" or "view" all the data/properties stored in an object if I don't know how many properties there are, or what their names are?

Thank you

Stefan

mackavi · **Posted:** October 27th, 2013, 11:57 am

I'm afraid you've answered your own question. You need to use property in object and clean up the output.

@imsmackavi

stefangas · **Posted:** October 29th, 2013, 8:35 pm

Aah. Excellent Mack. Thank you for the confirmation and taking the time to answer.

Just to finish the post.... I checked and found that consistently the first three entries for the object contained the stuff that I did not want, so it seems that the code below (I know it's simplistic) works. It only uses object properties and values from index 3 onwards.

Code:

testObj = new Object();
j = 0;
for (property in object){
   if(j>2) {
      Debug.trace(property + "=" + object[property]);
   }
   j++;         
}

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