SRL Archive - Help and Support

I made a post in the scripting help section, but it got lost after someone claimed it was in the SRL Wiki, which it is not.

Apparently SCAR can use classes, which brings me to wonder about pointers and dynamic memory. Could someone please give me some examples?

No pointers, no dynamic memory, no user created classes :( SCAR doesn't support them.
The reason the syntax highlighter bolds it is because it is a default highlighter for normal pascal.

What's the advantage of a class (in a separate file, right?) over a normal include file?

Class as in OOP, not as in Java classes.

Well, Delphi's name is actually Object Pascal.

But you are pretty much using dynamic memory whenever you declare an array without a size, or you declare a string.

So no structs either?
What about FreeDTM and FreeBMP? It would seem like those wouldn't free anything if var didn't indicate a pointer, because integer reserves 4 bytes, short reserves 2, and so on.

From: n3ss3s
What's the advantage of a class (in a separate file, right?) over a normal include file?

Compile time and compact code.

Just a handle to a value in an array internally used by SCAR.

Delphi supports them, though, right?

yes

From: R0b0t1
Well, Delphi's name is actually Object Pascal.

But you are pretty much using dynamic memory whenever you declare an array without a size, or you declare a string.

Delphi's name is actually Delphi, the language it's based on is Object Pascal, but there are some distinct differences such as VCL

Ah, ok. I just remember they're similar.

Well, now that I think of it, you would really only need dynamic memory if you were going to use SCAR as an actualy programming language…

From: Markus
Class as in OOP, not as in Java classes.

Are you going to try to tell me that Java classes are not a type of OOP ;)

From: BenLand100
Are you going to try to tell me that Java classes are not a type of OOP ;)

Ofcourse not, but n3ss3s meant it as in files with code in general, not as in specific classes, and that's what I answered :)