[VEX for Algorithmic Design] E11 _ Dictionary Basics

[@monocore]

Thank you. Moving to houdini from a regular 3d package feels like you've been playin with legos to build things, and now you can shape the atoms of said things. It's a paradigm shift. Your videos help ease the transition. Thank you so much.
It feels like vectorfield landscaping.

[@herbertengels2112]

Thank you so much Mr. Junichiro.
I hope you make more Vex videos. They are really awesome.

[@izvarzone]

Is it more optimized than run 4 cycles for different attributes?

[@dorincroitoru5913]

so powerful. thank you!

[@esoyychen3527]

Thx!! I was curious about how to use loops to traverse the dictionary and use key functions. I kept showing syntax errors in my tests.

[@stevensilcock]

Must of updated Dictionary for H19.5. My spreadsheet doesn't show the data "type" etc just the values e.g. {"a", 3.0, "b", 6} and that's it. Guess it saves a lot of room 😀

[@stevensilcock]

@1:14:17 json_dumps fixed it, now I see all the data info in spreadsheet....noice.

[@raneemFX]

Thanks yor legend

[@requa3314]

thank you so much !!!

[@arsensuleymanov7935]

Thank you. Amazing. Will try to understand how to use them in practice.

[@guitoma109]

Thanks Junichiro, fantastic tutorial as always. Lets go to the next JuniFlix serie Vector.

[@eggZ663]

Great tutorial and great teacher!

[@chriswong225]

one question. I would like to get dictionary items() like python to do the operation. it only have keys() function in vex, when I forloop each key to get the value, it does not know the key's data type. then I cannot get the value auotmatically if I do not know the type... May I know how to do it? maybe I need to swiitch to python to finish this task...
Sample Below:
string keys[] = keys(d@data);
foreach(string key; keys) {
[type] value = d@data[key];

[@chriswong225]

Solved in python. But It’s quite slow and not able to compile… hope found the way done it on vex….

[@sasanarian132]

thank you bro

[@AncienRegimeStudios]

Another excellent tutorial. One problem; how do you view a long Dictionary in the Geometry Spreadsheet? There's not even a slider to let you go to the end of the Dictionary. Thx

[@zoharproduction1600]

CTRL + B

[@AncienRegimeStudios]

@@zoharproduction1600 thanks

[@dilosilv611]

Houdini 19 now has an "Inspect" right click function
(Extremely handy for nested dictionaries. It shows them hierarchically, as a tree)

[@c.e.l.l.z]

Another thing you can do is: in geo spreadsheet pane; go to the View dropdown and toggle Typed Dictionaries. You usually won't need the tags anyway.