ReadWriteCollection for entities

[matheus23]

Yeah but how do I actually do sorting with that collection? Or am I asking something plain stupid here? It doesn't look like this is possible with your code yet...

You have a

1	private E[] items;

It's dead simple to just use

Arrays.sort(items);

, right?

Nope, because the Collection seems to save some more data, which could be invalidated:

1	private int iterateIndex, retainIndex, endIndex;

[theagentd]

That shouldn't matter. The sort shouldn't move anything around enough to break the whole list. Besides, I never said that you should throw it directly into Arrays.sort(). I just meant that it should be extremely easy to implement it.

[princec]

... again still missing the point of this collection, it's for where the natural ordering of the elements is the order in which they were added. If you're sorting it you're using the wrong collection in the first place.

Cas

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[Agro]

Ah, Arrays.sort helped me. Thanks

[ctomni231]

Yeah but how do I actually do sorting with that collection? Or am I asking something plain stupid here? It doesn't look like this is possible with your code yet...

I did read the replies to this question , but maybe an example will be better.

http://www.java-gaming.org/topics/ringvibe/27700/msg/248929/view.html#msg248929

In the game I made, I used an array for the rings. Each ring has a lifetime where it gets created and deleted. Riven's collection code helps with organizing this type of array. The rings don't need to be sorted... they just need to destroy and create themselves without causing an error. Creating and deleting the elements at the same time during an array is really bad news

[ShannonSmith]

I must say Riven since you started working for Cas you have been making some pretty cool stuff. This coupled with that continuations lib is giving me all sorts of ideas about simulating massive populations of all sorts of things. 

[princec]

Not for but with I should emphasise.

Cas