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Originally Posted by oeN. Hey, Basically I'm working on Clan System. And Dynamic looks promising. I need to store Clans names and array of members (strings). Let's say there are 5 Clans. Indexed 1, 2, 3, 4. Each Clan has unique name and array of members that are in that clan. Is it possible to store these data using Dynamic? In AmxX I would just do that: enum _:ClanData { CLAN_ID, CLAN_NAME[32], CLAN_MEMBERS[MAX_MEMBERS][64] } new g_aClans = CreateArray(ClanData); new clan[ClanData]; clan[CLAN_ID] = 1; clan[CLAN_NAME] = "My Clan"; clan[CLAN_MEMBERS] = { "Player 1", "Player 2", "Player 3" } ArrayPushArray(g_aClans, clan); And done. So easy and so readable. Without dozens of global variables. Am I doing bad trying to use Dynamic for that?

I would start of by using the Class Builder to build your base class ClanData.

clandata.inc

#if defined _dynamic_class_clandata_
  #endinput
#endif
#define _dynamic_class_clandata_

methodmap ClanData < Dynamic
{
	public ClanData()
	{
		// First we make a new dymanic object
		Dynamic myclass = Dynamic(64, 0);

		// Next we will define all the members
		// -> We do this to force the offsets to always be in the same location
		//    over multiple instances of the same class.
		myclass.SetString("Name", "", 32);
		myclass.SetDynamic("Members", Dynamic());
		return view_as<ClanData>(myclass);
	}

	// Note that I use static offsets to access members.
	// -> This improves performance by caching member offsets
	// -> This is why we force the members in during the contructor
	// -> Failure to force members in the constructor will cause corruption

	public bool GetName(char[] buffer, int length)
	{
		static DynamicOffset offset = INVALID_DYNAMIC_OFFSET;
		if (offset == INVALID_DYNAMIC_OFFSET)
		{
			offset = this.GetMemberOffset("Name");
			if (offset == INVALID_DYNAMIC_OFFSET)
				SetFailState("A serious error occured in Dynamic!");
		}
		this.GetStringByOffset(offset, buffer, length);
		return true;
	}

	public void SetName(const char[] buffer)
	{
		static DynamicOffset offset = INVALID_DYNAMIC_OFFSET;
		if (offset == INVALID_DYNAMIC_OFFSET)
		{
			offset = this.GetMemberOffset("Name");
			if (offset == INVALID_DYNAMIC_OFFSET)
			{
				offset = this.SetString("Name", buffer);
				return;
			}
		}
		this.SetStringByOffset(offset, buffer);
	}

	property Dynamic Members
	{
		public get()
		{
			static DynamicOffset offset = INVALID_DYNAMIC_OFFSET;
			if (offset == INVALID_DYNAMIC_OFFSET)
			{
				offset = this.GetMemberOffset("Members");
				if (offset == INVALID_DYNAMIC_OFFSET)
					SetFailState("A serious error occured in Dynamic!");
			}
			return this.GetObjectByOffset(offset);
		}
		public set(Dynamic value)
		{
			static DynamicOffset offset = INVALID_DYNAMIC_OFFSET;
			if (offset == INVALID_DYNAMIC_OFFSET)
			{
				offset = this.GetMemberOffset("Members");
				if (offset == INVALID_DYNAMIC_OFFSET)
				{
					offset = this.SetObject("Members", value);
					return;
				}
			}
			this.SetObjectByOffset(offset, value);
		}
	}
}

As per your code example:

Dynamic Clans = Dynamic();

ClanData Clan = ClanData();
Clan.SetName("My Clan");

Dynamic ClanMembers = ClanData.Members;
ClanMembers.PushString("Player 1");
ClanMembers.PushString("Player 2");
ClanMembers.PushString("Player 3");

Clans.PushDynamic(Clan);

You could then access a ClanData methodmap like so:

ClanData Clan = Clans.GetDynamicByIndex(0);