Sc.sticky has a limit of 100 items

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Hello
I am writing an Agent based script to replicate human evacuation in a building. For writing the script I have to use sticky dictionary to record the previous location of the agents (human) as they ascend towards the evacuation door. I just realised that sc.sticky does not allow me to take more than 100 agents. If I input the value more than 100 it throws an error of index out of range.
Is there a work around?

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Isn’t that happening because the first time you initialized it to a size of 100, and because it is sticky you run it again with 101 you will get an out-of-range exception, as it finds the previous dictionary of size 100?

Try to restart Rhino and use 101 immediately.

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Hi Menno

Thank you for reverting to my question. The above is just an example of how when I enter 101 items the sticky dictionary doesn’t work. Both the images are just individual examples and not sequential.

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I did a quick test here which does not seem to support your finding… I ran the following scriptlet:

import Rhino
import scriptcontext as sc

for i in range(201):
    sc.sticky["TestMaxItems_{}".format(i)] = "item_{}".format(i)
    
print sc.sticky["TestMaxItems_200"]

This prints item_200

To test storing other than strings I also ran this:

import Rhino
import scriptcontext as sc

for i in range(201):
    sc.sticky["TestMaxItems_{}".format(i)] = [0,i]
    
print sc.sticky["TestMaxItems_200"]

which prints [0,200]

Testing several intermediate values also worked, so it appears that I have stored 200 items. I did not test more than that. I also quickly tested it in GH Python, seems to work there as well.

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