RE: MIA, Ask an Expert: More Shapes

["Alain Tougas" <alain@xxxxxxx>]

Hi!

OK, in that case:
1. The Public shapes tab can hold up to 128 shapes
2. Each backpack can hold up to 128 shapes
But that will certainly make your project hyper heavy, unless your shapes
are tiny
Also...
3. If you want to limit the size of your project, or use a million shapes in
the Public shapes tab, you can use the primitives saveshape and loadshape in
a looping procedure. You will have to make sure that you are in the right
folder (directory) before you play with those:

a) create 128 shapes
b) dotimes [i 128] [saveshape word "1batch :i + 1 :i + 1]
c) create another batch of 128 shapes
d) dotimes [i 128] [saveshape word "2batch :i + 1 :i + 1]
etc.
This will create 256 shapes (png files) named 1batch1 1batch2... 1batch128
2batch1 2batch2... 2batch128

If you don't like the syntax of dotimes (I don't), you can make a
traditional recursive procedure

Then, when time comes to retreive them:

dotimes [i 128] [loadshape word "1batch :1 + 1 :i + 1]
dotimes [i 128] [loadshape word "2batch :1 + 1 :i + 1]

That method allows you to create banks of gazillion shapes

Alain

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