Adding new element to a collection propagatres added value to all entries

[tfurnivall]

I'm trying to populate a collection with PossibleAnswers to a Question. Every time I do this the values from the newly added entry get propagated to each entry in the collection (best way I can describe it - see code attachement).

Here's the existing code - including the current debugging code surrounding the add!
The function is a Method of a Question object.

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All the Find and FindNext procedures do return the appropriate next value. However, the debug loop produces the following:

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As you can see, something is being added, but it seems to be affecting every single entry.

I know it's me (first rule of dumb) but can anybody help?

Thanks,

Tony

[Kyle123]

Your code is just adding new references to the localanswer object since I can't see anywhere in your code that changes it. So the code isn't affecting all items in the collection, you only have one object in the collection albeit multiple times, therefore changing the object appears to change all the items

[tfurnivall]

Bingo, Kyle123

I added 'just one line:

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and it slipped properly back into shape!

My conceptual error was in thinking that adding a new version of an instance adds a new instance. It simply adds another reference to the original instance - but with the updated values. When I checked back through my Version saves, the new clAnswer statement was there, and got dropped when I relocated the code. My bad! (No surprise, right ;-)

Thanks again for your help. My head appreciates it, and so doe my study wall!

Tony

[Kyle123]

Glad you got it sorted