I want to do a search through my game.Workspace for all Instances whose name starts with “Proxy_”.
Historically I’ve done this with a utility function I have that maps a function over a sub-tree of the datamodel with a depth-first recursive search.
Is it better to use game.Workspace:GetDescendants ()?
Pros:
probably faster
maybe a little cleaner
maybe a little easier to understand
Cons:
will this thing really return an array with 100k instances in it? Or is there some secret undocumented limit?
maybe uses more memory?
A function to map a lambda over a sub-tree of the datamodel would be a really useful built-in function.
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Have you tried looking into CollectionService ? Basically you can tag each object that has that name and loop through all of them without worrying if it is that or not.
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Quenty
June 2, 2020, 8:49pm
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There are no limits, but you want to use CollectionService with this tag editor!
This is a plugin for editing CollectionService tags. If you aren’t familiar with what that is, please read the wiki page and then continue reading this post: http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=API:Class/CollectionService
This plugin allows you to create tags, and then assign them to objects in your game. You can also visualize and view a list of what objects have a given tag, and so on. It’s become an essential tool in many game developers’ toolboxes.
You can also listen to items being added and removed, which is what I do with my binding system.
--- Bind class to Roblox Instance
-- @classmod Binder
local require = require(game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("Nevermore"))
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local CollectionService = game:GetService("CollectionService")
local Maid = require("Maid")
local Signal = require("Signal")
local promiseBoundClass = require("promiseBoundClass")
--[[
@usage
-- Setup a class!
local MyClass = {}
MyClass.__index = MyClass
function MyClass.new(robloxInstance)
print("New tagged instance of ", robloxInstance")
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I’ve never heard of this service before.
The part where the tags don’t appear in Studio is kind of a bummer. I would want to create tags on my proxy objects as part of the authoring step.
Seems like a much better way to index into the datamodel though.
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