[DGD] object finding

Shentino shentino at gmail.com
Thu Apr 27 18:57:01 CEST 2006


Par you took the words right out of my mouth...an argument signature
for find object that takes an integer instead of a string would be
just perfect for what I was suggesting.

It wouldn't be too hard to implement, since we'd be just looking up
the object table directly.  Security would just be testing to see if
using the object's name would also have worked (if of course we had
it).

For now, I'm just glad I can trust the Klib's ObjRegD to not lose
stuff.  But...what about all those other folks like Melville or Gurba
who don't use it?

BTW how DO you parse a statedump?  Is there a standards file or spec
file somewhere that tells me how?  I'm really no good at parsing
through other people's source code.  It would take me close to forever
to figure out how for myself and I imagine others have already done
it.

And Dworkin, if this can be put in without breaking stuff, I would
much like to see this :).  If you're not claiming a monopoly on ideas,
I'd like to put forth a vote of yes.  Since the driver already has a
defacto int => object mapping through the master object table, I
imagine that a driver solution would be quite simple, and certainly
much more simple than an LPC solution that is also failsafe.




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