I can't quite seem to get my head around these.

Does anyone have a link to a tutorial, or well written wiki page (that I cannot find) that will show me how these work and what they are useful for?

(I think I need to use one ... having read some stuff on this forum ... but I can't work out how they work, nor if they will actually be any use)

Form Lists ... My topic of learning for the day

I remember having messed with the form list for the Animal packages behavior and for head parts of my elves mod, in the case for head parts they are used to tell the game which head parts can be used by certain races.

It's really just a list of Forms. The most significant thing about it imo, is its script functions.
http://www.creationkit.com/FormList_Script

Basically you create one in Object Window -> Miscellaneous -> FormList and then you can drag and drop stuff from Object Window in there and use scripts to add more forms or check what's in there.

The only example I have near is http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1344324-adding-spells-on-startup/page__view__findpost__p__20328156. I used it as an array, with the additional value that to add new spells in the script I only had to drag and drop them in the FormList instead of having to change the code.

So there's no page or informations about them ?

I have a List with already more than 250 items in; the List will become even bigger, and i was wondering if there's a limit or if such a huge list can lead to problems.


OP : they can be very useful with the Find functions (equivalents of GetFirstRef/GetNextRef from OBSE) or GetItemCount, for example.

Apart from the FormList Script posted above you have this one:

http://www.creationkit.com/FormList

I haven't seen any reference anywhere to a limit. It would be nice to know if there is any.

Ah Ha! See, now I see!

This is what I hoped (arrays) ... redwoodelf also posted about a way to do linked-lists ealier today/yesterday ... Combining those with these is exactly what I want.

Thanks very much