Engine Plugin API: add CreateDynamicArray() #2624
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Resolve #2313
This adds IAGSEngine::CreateDynamicArray, GetDynamicArrayLength and GetDynamicArraySize:
This lets plugins to create and return dynamic arrays in their own functions. So you can have plugin functions that return dynamic array to user script.
To be honest, this method is not trivial, plugin authors have to take care to properly init array.
Specifically, when writing array of managed handles, they must not forget to add 1 extra reference to each of the objects they put there, this reference is "owned" by array. If you don't do that, the object may in theory get disposed before array gets disposed.
Following are example of using this method, which I used to test in a dummy plugin: