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Hi all, I have an arrays-in-loops puzzle. I thought of a shortcut to do a thing, it doesn't seem to work, and I should move on -- except I would like to understand why it doesn't work. Minimal background: I've got some point data, I've polywired it together using Connect Adjacent Pieces, and gotten a restlength on the primitives from that. I need to set a pscale on the points before moving on to my next step. Half the distance to the nearest neighbor is good enough for now. I could use nearpoints() to figure that out (and it seems to work!), but I thought, "hey, I already have restlengths; why not just look up the shortest restlength and use that?" That turns out not to work, or at least not as I think it should. Where have I gone wrong? After my connect step, each point ends up connected to 4-20 other points by primitives with restlengths between .9 and 3.9. My first stab at this was: use pointprims() to get an array of primitives associate with each point; create an empty float array to hold the restlengths; foreach loop over the primitives, read the restlength with primattrib(), and push the result onto the lengths array; sort() the lengths array into a new array; read out the shortest length and use that to calculate a pscale. Here's the actual code: int myprims[] = pointprims(0, @ptnum); float mylens[] = {}; foreach (int myndx; myprims) { float mytmp = primattrib(0, "restlength", myprims[myndx], 0); // f@checktmp = mytemp; push(mylens, mytmp); // f@checkrslt = mylens[myndx]; } float lensort[] = sort(mylens); float shortest = lensort[0]; f@pscale = shortest/2; I think it's failing at the push statement. If I write out mytmp as a point attribute just before I push it, I get a reasonable number (commented code). If I check the stored value right after the push, I get either zero or the restlength of prim zero. If I check after the foreach loop completes, I get restlength of prim zero. So the push doesn't work. Looks like example code in the docs, but I'm missing something. Any thoughts?
