Addressing another type within same type

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Stevie G

Not 100% sure what your trying to do but you could probably make use of the old favourite - store the handle to the type instance in the entity name like so ...

type Mytype
  field Name$
  field Entity
  field Health
  field Etc..
end type

m.mytype = new mytype
m\Name = "Stevie G"
m\Entity = createsphere()
m\Health = 100
Nameentity m\Entity, handle( m )

To access directly based on the Target Entity ..

Test.mytype = object.mytype( entityname( TargetEntity ) )
Test\Health = Test\Health - 1

Another alternative would be to define an array of types ..


type MyType
  field name$
end type

dim MyTypes.MyType( 100 )

MyType(0 ) = new Mytype
MyType(0)\Name = "Joe Schmo"

So to access player 990 it would be ...

HisName$ = MyType( 990 )\Name

Stevie