How big is the number of Case expression-n in RealBasic?

Author Name Status Posted Time Hesus Oliver Pecce 5/4/2008 10:58:06 PM Author is Offline Hi, I'm trying to find out if there is a limit to how big a Select Case statement can be in RealBasic? What I mean by how big is the number of Case [Is] expression-n. So far I can have a Select Case that has 1000 Case's in it. With no problems. But when I have a Select Case that has 5000 Case's I get this Message box when I run the program in the IDE: Runtime Error Runtime Error 4: Failed Assertion Press OK to Continue Press Cancel to Quit Please report what caused this error along with the information below. CGIA.cpp: 2370 Failure Condition: varOffset < 32768 I"m using RealBasic 2005 Release 3 -Standard Edtion, in Windows XP. Thank you

Subject Author Status Date Re: How big is the number of Case expression-n in RealBasic? Helen Deol 5/4/2008 11:30:30 PM Hesus, That's not a limit on the number of case statements; that's a bug in the compiler, which is choking on the sheer, astonishing size of that method. Please file a bug report - and then please, for your own sake, find some way of solving your problem that doesn't require you to put thousands of lines of code in a single method. Helen.  Post Comments Re: Thank you for the reply Hesus Oliver Pecce 5/4/2008 11:33:34 PM Helen, Thank you for the reply. My work around is to just break up my code into a few Methods. Post Comments Re: How big is the number of Case expression-n in RealBasic? Poutt Keitis 5/4/2008 11:35:38 PM That's not really a brilliant workaround. If you've got that many possibilities, you sh ould consider putting the values into a file and reading them at runtime. Then you can process them using an if statement inside a loop while giving user-feedback. Post Comments Re: How big is the number of Case expression-n in RealBasic? Potthaccio Vaavaacione 5/4/2008 11:39:46 PM Hello Hesus, Use a Dictionary -- since it hashes values, the lookup is much faster than the method call overhead or file I/O. Post Comments Re: Better idea! Poutt Keitis 5/4/2008 11:42:38 PM Ah!  That's a much better idea - forget what I said.   Post Comments Re: How big is the number of Case expression-n in RealBasic? Konjanja Takeuchi 5/4/2008 11:48:50 PM Hesus, Another idea: if the different cases are all integers, and they're sequential, you might even consider an array.   Post Comments Re: i agreed..but dictinary is better Hesus Oliver Pecce 5/4/2008 11:52:10 PM Oh, Konjanja, i agreed, it might not be the best way. I like the Dictionary idea. Thank you for everyones input. Post Comments Re: How big is the number of Case expression-n in RealBasic? Raphaelin Mantein 5/4/2008 11:55:36 PM As a rule of thumb, whenever you find yourself using many Select Case statements, you're probably not taking advantage of Object Oriented programming. Try replacing the Select Case with classes and subclasses. This may not apply to your method, but is a good general rule anyway. Post Comments

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