Article: Entity data signature

[Petr Schreiber]

You can view the page at http://www.thinbasic.com/community/c...data-signature

[D.J.Peters]

If all Entity ID's are system/scene wide unique why we need a signature ID also ?

Joshy

[Petr Schreiber]

If all Entity ID's are system/scene wide unique why we need a signature ID also ?

Joshy

We don't need them, but we can use them. It is good way to sign multiple entities - in one scene, you can have:
%eOrange, %eApple, %eBanana, %eCarrot, %ePotato

The %eOrange, %eApple, %eBanana have different entitiy IDs, but you could supply them the same signatureID, which would represent "fruit".
The %eCarrot, %ePotato have different entitiy IDs, but you could supply them the same signatureID, which would represent "vegetable".

The signature can be used for filtering out entities, which have something in common.

[D.J.Peters]

Thank you Petr for this good description.

Now it makes sence for me.

Joshy