[Request] List Object

[RaiFox]

Yep I know it already has one, but besides from displaying text and getting input from the user its useless.

This is because using it for a another purpose, eg. saving map data. Is incredibly slow compared to using an array.

So I'm requesting someone makes an extension that can save strings is a list-like fashion and has similar features to the List Object that isn't slow.

[vortex2]

Can't you just use a different extension to save the data? I ask becuase making a list object just so you can save map data seems a bit of a waste to me..

[neat_Kliker2]

if the list object is slow, no matter what you do to the control it will still be slow so there is absolutely no point in anyone attempting it

[Dynasoft]

No, the list object is slow because it's designed to draw to the screen. An in-memory string list would be pretty quick.

[neat_Kliker2]

"No, the list object is slow because it's designed to draw to the screen." and because it is a windows control, just like how buttons are slow and every other windows control is

[DanielRehn]

If you need a quick list with insert/add/delete/sort functions.. use lua?

[RaiFox]

Ive used Lua to do calculations in a game I was working on, what I remember was it wasn't fast enough to calculate it always.

Basically, I think Lua isn't fast enough.

[vortex2]

Then you probally did something wrong as Lua is quite fast...

[neat_Kliker2]

if LUA is too slow, you could copy what most commercial games have, make a python ext. and make python scripts, dont give me crap about speed because if speed was an issue, the big commercial games wouldnt use it

[RaiFox]

...dont give me crap...

I didn't refer to you in any of my posts, and as a general rule I tend to ignore your posts due to many trollish posts you have made.

In a short sentence, I don't care.

I'm simply requesting a object that mimics the data storage of a list object, if you take offense to that you have problems.

Annoyances aside, I think there was an extension for MMF1.5 that did something like this. Ill try to find who made it and see if they could do a port.