Comments on: Yowza, What a Day! http://www.streamingcolour.com/blog/2009/02/04/yowza-what-a-day/ The trials and joys of indie games development Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:32:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: OG http://www.streamingcolour.com/blog/2009/02/04/yowza-what-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-1533 OG Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:25:57 +0000 http://www.streamingcolour.com/blog/?p=362#comment-1533 @Bill - That looks like it would probably work too. I don't really have a good reason for having chosen the for loop over a while. On the apple dev forums a couple of people posted some even safer ways to remove the elements from the map, but I can't log in right now (because of the 3.0 update) to find the link. The best answer I can give is: I picked the for loop because that was the first fix that came to mind at the time. :) @Bill – That looks like it would probably work too. I don’t really have a good reason for having chosen the for loop over a while. On the apple dev forums a couple of people posted some even safer ways to remove the elements from the map, but I can’t log in right now (because of the 3.0 update) to find the link. The best answer I can give is: I picked the for loop because that was the first fix that came to mind at the time. :)

]]> By: Bill DeVoe http://www.streamingcolour.com/blog/2009/02/04/yowza-what-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-1531 Bill DeVoe Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:18:23 +0000 http://www.streamingcolour.com/blog/?p=362#comment-1531 Here's a quick question. Why not do this a while loop? while( soundEffectMap.Size() > 0 ) soundEffectMap.removeIndex(0); It seems like it would better avoid any possible indexing issues. Just wondering why you chose the for loop instead. :) Here’s a quick question. Why not do this a while loop?

while( soundEffectMap.Size() > 0 ) soundEffectMap.removeIndex(0);

It seems like it would better avoid any possible indexing issues. Just wondering why you chose the for loop instead. :)

]]> By: Steve Guidi http://www.streamingcolour.com/blog/2009/02/04/yowza-what-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-534 Steve Guidi Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:48:43 +0000 http://www.streamingcolour.com/blog/?p=362#comment-534 What a coincidence! Today, a peer of mine asked me how to remove items from an indexable list and I promptly informed him about the strategy of removing elements starting from the end of the list. I've been burned with this gotcha one too many times... You should still be able to use UInt32 if you change your loop termination condition to something like soundEffectMap.Size() > 0. However, this might not be efficient for your needs. What a coincidence! Today, a peer of mine asked me how to remove items from an indexable list and I promptly informed him about the strategy of removing elements starting from the end of the list. I’ve been burned with this gotcha one too many times…

You should still be able to use UInt32 if you change your loop termination condition to something like soundEffectMap.Size() > 0. However, this might not be efficient for your needs.

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