Store object in a panel's value object with undefined sub objects...

[ustk]

@Christoph-Hart Yeah so this was driving me nuts for hours. And now I've found what it was I reckon it happened to me already in the past...

SoI have an object that is containing some undefined values, like:

reg myArray = [{obj:"blabla", area:undefined}];

You can apparently store it successfully in a panel value as I see it in the xml afterward. But at recall time, the object won't load because its type will be number instead of object (failing the check of 1st initialisation)

reg myArray = [{obj:"blabla", area:undefined}];

inline function onPanelControl(component, value)
{
	if (typeof(value) != "object")
		component.setValue(myArray);
	else
		Console.print(trace(component.getValue())); // never arrives here...
};
Panel.setControlCallback(onPanelControl);

So the issue is that undefined isn't parsed and of course I can fix that with whatever value, [] or "" instead.

<Control type="ScriptPanel" id="mbPnl" value="JSON[{&quot;obj&quot;: &quot;blabla&quot;, &quot;area&quot;: undefined, ... // Not parsed

undefined is very useful when scripting, so it it possible to make it parsable?

[ustk]

@Christoph-Hart Actually it's even worse... area later becomes a Rectangle object, that of course won't recall... I have to let go the Rectangle option for the project and stick with the ol' array...

[Christoph Hart]

@ustk you can always convert back and to an rectangle from an array, but yeah for storing / restoring things you need to resort to vanilla Javascript data types.

[ustk]

@Christoph-Hart Yeah in the end it wasn't hard to just jump between Rectangles and arrays

area = Rectangle(fromArray).modify().toArray();