How is this array possible? And how to detect it?

[Mbee]

Obviously, I've got either a design flaw or a bug in my code -- I'm NOT blaming AutoIt for this. But I would have thought it would be impossible for an array to look like this:

An array that's one-dimensional for the first four elements, then suddenly a two-dimensional array that over-writes element zero!  WTF? That display is from the graphical debugger.

It would be easier to track down my bug if I knew how to identify that an array is suddenly hyperdimensional (I have no idea what to call this). Then I could backtrack the change. Or perhaps you might know what the code might look like to create such an abomination?

I apologize that I keep finding these weirdies!

[water]

I'm quite sure you can't create an array in AutoIt that changes its dimensions.
I fear it is a bug in the de-bugger

You could use AutoIt to write information about the array to the Console:

ConsoleWrite("#of dimensions: " & UBound($arg_Ara, 0) & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("#of rows      : " & UBound($arg_Ara, 1) & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("#of columns   : " & UBound($arg_Ara, 2) & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("Value of $arg_Ara[0]: " & $arg_Ara[0]) & @CRLF) ; I'm sure you'll get an error on this statement

 

[Gianni]

Couldn't it also be an array in array?
Some time ago I wrote a function to see the "structure" and the content of an array. Try to pass that array to that function that you can find here: https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/182856-array-viewer/

 

[jchd]

This debugger behaves as a D-bugger, a Dramatic source of (visual) bug creation.

[Mbee]

16 hours ago, water said:

I'm quite sure you can't create an array in AutoIt that changes its dimensions.
I fear it is a bug in the de-bugger

You could use AutoIt to write information about the array to the Console:

ConsoleWrite("#of dimensions: " & UBound($arg_Ara, 0) & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("#of rows      : " & UBound($arg_Ara, 1) & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("#of columns   : " & UBound($arg_Ara, 2) & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("Value of $arg_Ara[0]: " & $arg_Ara[0]) & @CRLF) ; I'm sure you'll get an error on this statement

 

Thank you greatly, @water You were correct in predicting that bottom statement wouldn't fly, but here's the output from the first three:

 

#of dimensions: 1
#of rows      : 1
#of columns   : 0

 

[jchd]

You can use this to dump variables.

[Mbee]

5 hours ago, Chimp said:

Couldn't it also be an array in array?
Some time ago I wrote a function to see the "structure" and the content of an array. Try to pass that array to that function that you can find here: https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/182856-array-viewer/

 

I very much appreciate your reply, @Chimp Your code looks awesome as hell!

Unfortunately, I keep running into problems trying to run it. Most of them were solved by adding a "Local" declaration to a few variable assignments. But that didn't work with the current fail point, which is here (I added the "Local") :

In Func __GUICtrlTreeView_AddItem:

Local $tInsert = DllStructCreate($tagTVINSERTSTRUCT)

"Error: Variable used without being declared"

Any advice, please?

[Gianni]

Hi @Mbee,

from that example script, you should:

• copy all the #includes from the top and paste at the top of your script
• copy all from line 52 to the end of the script and paste the whole at the bottom of your script

At this point you can call the _ArrayView() function from within your script to 'analyze' the passed Array

lines 13 to 50 in that script ar only for testing and can should be removed

having mixed the core of the function with the example code itself can actually create confusion. sorry

P.S. since in this case your base array is 1D, in order to see if one of its elements contains another nested array, you can also simply use the _ArrayDisplay () function, even if you can't then 'browse' into it