Re: Determine index from array reference?
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
I'm still very unclear about what the actual accesses are. Why do you
want the index? Presumably, there is some bigger operation involved that
uses the index.
Generally, if you find yourself thinking in terms of "you can't get to
the key with the value" it means you have the map the wrong way round.
However, without knowing what the index is for, it is impossible to say.
Patricia
Patricia:
I'm sorry you must have missed my reply to your earlier message. I've
got an array of JTextFields. These JTextFields have ActionListeners
attached. In the actionPerformed() I need to get the index of the
JTextField that fired the action to set some values in another array.
In other parts of my code I also need to access the JTextField[] by
index. So the dreaded Vector/ArrayList suggestions were good ones
because they did solve the problem. Then somehow we got onto the
multiple list/Map tangent which I don't really have and doesn't work
because of the 'you can't get the key from the value' problem. Chris
suggested just looping through the array. I asked but haven't gotten an
answer if he thought that was still a good solution for very large
arrays. In my case however the array only has 16 elements.
There is one note if agreement in all of this, everybody dislikes my
solution.
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