keeping track of children

[kwazai]

I have been keeping track of info about my meshes in a datagrid(dataset) so that I could easily dump it to an excel comma delimited format as a 'save' format. I need to be able to keep track of as many as eight children for any given mesh and have about decided to add a seperate grid for tracking child meshes (ie, mesh number, child mesh number 1, 2 ,3, etc.) as there is some parametric type calcs for the child meshes. does anybody know of an easier way (perhaps type,or object method) (with sample code).
Mike

[Rynus_Rein]

you'd probably end up keeping the child records up-to-date yourself.

[newborn]

Have you tried to couple with only one female at a time? I found it easier to keep track of your children that way...

Jokes aside, I think the only way will be to keep track yourself in arrays or collections. You can always store info in TVMesh.Tag but there is only so much you want to write in one string of text.

[Dan]

Newborn summarized your options well but not knowing what language you use makes it hard to provide code.
One simple way of utilizing the mesh tag is the handy split method (.net) that converts a delimited string into an array. A couple of simple helper functions to pack and unpack the list of children could easily encapsulate the mesh.tag.

Personally I pack all my children off to bording school.

[kwazai]

I'm using vb.net.  I don't really want to use the .tag for an array. looks like the simplest would be an array. I did a search on the forum looking at mesh classes and was wondering how hard it would be to encapsulate my current meshes inside a class. Can someone post code for a 'mesh' class. I have visual studio just prefer vb and can convert from there-sorry to ramble.
back in my vb6 days I used a couple structures for file saving/opening. Is a class similar.?

mike