Re: Scripting - Sorting a Collection

Date : Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:19:12 +0200
To : <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
From : "peter boeykens" <peter_b(at)skynet.be>
Subject : Re: Scripting - Sorting a Collection
Woops, just reread your mail.
didnt really help you did it?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: Scripting - Sorting a Collection

I thought a collection was an array, but Im probably wrong.
 
perhaps if you first declare the array, and then simply equal the array to the collection it could work
 
something like:
myArray = Array()
and then later on in the script
myArray = oCollection
 
If that doesnt do it, then you can loop through you collection and add each item into the array.
something like:
for i = 0 to oCollection.count
    set myArray(i) = oCollection(i)
next
If it doesnt crap out, you would end up with an array containing your objects.
 
I dont know about the quicksort, but I would expect it to require strings, in which case, rather than storing the items in the array, you would have to store their name.
probably like this: myArray(i)=oCollection(i).name
 
Sorry for the newbie scripting advice, and if it explodes, it wasnt me!
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:32 PM
Subject: RE: Scripting - Sorting a Collection

Soz,
 
VB Script at the moment.
 
A.


From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Adam Seeley
Sent: 17 October 2007 18:30
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Scripting - Sorting a Collection

Hi,
 
I've pulled all the Passes in a Scene into a collection and now I want to Output information to a text file or Excel sheet.
 
The default order of the Collection seems to be the Creation order, but I would like to output the information in the same order as the Alphanumeric sort that I see in the Explorer.
There is the Quicksort function which I could use. This seems to mean that I have put the collection into an Array to sort it first.
 
I can make the array ok but is there a way to easily sort the Collection instead, otherwise are there any commands lying around that would pipe the Collection Sstraight into an array (and back). Seems like the kind of function that would exist already somewhere.
 
Many thanks,
 
Adam.
 
 

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