Recursive _ArrayDisplay and _DebugArrayDisplay

[Nine]

Many people wanted to see the content of an array inside another array using either _ArrayDisplay or _DebugArrayDisplay.  Now it is possible with this UDF.

But first I want to give my sincere congratulations to those who have invested long efforts to create ArrayDisplayInternals.au3 (Melba23, jpm, LarsJ, pixelsearch).  Most of the code and ingenuity come from those authors. I would say over 90% of the code comes from the original UDF.

With this new UDF, you can dig into a tree of arrays inside arrays as deep as you want.  There is no limit on the levels of recursion.  When you click on an {array} cell, it will bring you a new window (either _ArrayDisplay or _DebugArrayDisplay depending what was called first).

Although there is no limit on recursion levels, there is a few limitations that must be mentioned :

• You need to close all windows before ending the UDF (you can exit script on any level in debug mode)
• You can only show one array per level at a giving time
• You cannot manipulate a lower level window untill its child has been closed

Example :

#include "ArrayDisplayInternalsEX.au3"

Local $a = ["a", 2, 3]
Local $b = [["x", "y", $a, "z"], [1, $a, 2, 3], [$a, "a", "b", "c"]]
Local $c = ["x", "y", 1, $b, "a", 8 ,9 , 10, 11, 12, 13, "abcdef"]
_DebugArrayDisplayEX($c, "Test")

Enjoy !

ArrayDisplayInternalsEX.au3

[pixelsearch]

Very interesting for sure, bravo Nine

Edited April 5, 2022 by pixelsearch
added "very"

[pixelsearch]

@Nine one question : when you scripted the UDF, did you have in mind that getting rid of subclassing WM_NOTIFY could create issues (I guess) in case the user already registered WM_NOTIFY in his own script ?

Just curious, as always 

 

Edited April 6, 2022 by pixelsearch
deleted a pic which was not really useful for this thread

[Nine]

18 hours ago, pixelsearch said:

that getting rid of subclassing WM_NOTIFY could create issues

The major problem with subclassing is that you absolutely need to unregister the subclass before ending a script (all levels), otherwise the script hangs with a crash.

If you have registered WM_NOTIFY with GUIRegisterMsg, you simply need to reexecute the registration after a call to the UDF

_ArrayDisplayEX($My_Array)
GUIRegisterMsg($WM_NOTIFY, My_WM_NOTIFY)

Btw I will implement your solution on null cells in the next release of my UDF... TX

 

Edited April 6, 2022 by Nine

[pixelsearch]

@Nine Hello
I knew your script "Recursive _ArrayDisplay" would be useful at times

For example, it helps to see what's happening when you send a request to Google for translating a text, then you can display the nested arrays with your script :

I added a couple of lines in it, to match the good functionality of the actual _ArrayDisplay function which indicates the number of [rows] and eventually [columns] of the array (when 2D), though I just created a trac ticket 4019 because something seems wrong in ArrayDisplayInternals.au3

[Gianni]

... if you prefer to view the contents of nested arrays within the same window rather than opening different windows for each subarray you can also try this other array viewer: https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/182856-array-viewer