A few questions

Okay, I have a two questions so I figure I might aswell ask them both at once. I'd be grateful for any help.

1) How can I put arrays as a field in a type. I could probably just do this by trial and error, except that I want to implement it for my game as a reorganizing tool, however if I can't do it or I am doing it wrong I'll waste a lot of time. So if anyone knows how to do this that would be a huge help.

2) Can I overload functions? Again, I could just 'try' this one out but my if I reorganized my game and found out it didn't work it would make a big mess.

Thanks for reading my post.

1)

Type Cars
Field Name$
Field Colour[2]
End Type

Car.Cars=New Cars
Car.Name$="Red Car"
Car.Colour[0]=255
Car.Colour[1]=0
Car.Colour[2]=0

The arrays in types can only be one dimensional. Read DIM in the Command Reference for more.

2)
No, I do not you can

There is a difference between ordinary arrays and blitz arrays.
(Blitz arrays are the arrays used in types, or anywhere else actually, done with square brackets)
http://www.blitzcoder.com/cgi-bin/code/code_showentry.pl?id=thechange09052002191420&comments=no
http://www.blitzcoder.com/cgi-bin/code/code_showentry.pl?id=ashcroftman07192002114143&comments=no

A proper title for this would have been "arrays in types?" or something similar... a NULL title like "a few questions..." tells no one anything and is bad form.
-RZ

Sorry, the reason I put 'A few questions' is because I had more than one that were completely unrelated. I thought I had more but I guess I had just the two.

Thanks for help with the arrays. And I suppose I won't be overloading any functions...

A recent post by Koriolis led me to this on Blitzcoder:

Simple function overloading

Not true overloading in a C++ sense, but probably as good as it gets in Blitz