New Idea: AdvancedTable

library AdvancedTable

    //: CnP from Vexorians Table. 
    //: Sorry dude, there is no other way.
    //=============================================================
    globals
        private constant integer MAX_INSTANCES=8100 //400000
        //Feel free to change max instances if necessary, it will only affect allocation
        //speed which shouldn't matter that much.
        
        private hashtable ht    
        // Actually this is the data holder
    endglobals
    //=========================================================

    private struct GTable[MAX_INSTANCES]

        method reset takes nothing returns nothing
            call FlushChildHashtable(ht, integer(this) )
        endmethod

        private method onDestroy takes nothing returns nothing
            call this.reset()
        endmethod

        //=============================================================
        // initialize it all.
        //
        private static method onInit takes nothing returns nothing
            set ht = InitHashtable()
        endmethod

    endstruct

    //: Setup textmacros for table creation.
    //! textmacro AdvancedTable_make takes name, valType, func, funcPref, hashType, paraType, keyType, key, value
    struct $name$Table extends GTable
    
        method operator [] takes $keyType$ key returns $valType$
            return Load$func$$funcPref$(ht, integer(this), $key$)
        endmethod

        method operator []= takes $keyType$ key, $paraType$ value returns nothing
            call Save$func$$funcPref$(ht,  integer(this)  ,$key$, $value$)
        endmethod

        method flush takes $keyType$ key returns nothing
            call RemoveSaved$hashType$(ht, integer(this), $key$)
        endmethod

        static method flush2D takes string firstkey returns nothing
            call $name$Table(- StringHash(firstkey)).reset()
        endmethod

        static method operator [] takes string firstkey returns $name$Table
            return $name$Table(- StringHash(firstkey) )
        endmethod

    endstruct
    //! endtextmacro
    
    //: Finally create our crazy tables.
    //                                  TableName   DataType    Func        Prefix      hashID      paraType    keyType     key     value
    //! runtextmacro AdvancedTable_make("Integer", "integer",  "Integer",  "",         "Integer",  "integer",   "integer",  "key",   "value")
    //! runtextmacro AdvancedTable_make("Boolean", "boolean",  "Boolean",  "",         "Boolean",  "boolean",   "integer",  "key",   "value")
    //! runtextmacro AdvancedTable_make("Unit",    "unit",     "Unit",     "Handle",   "Handle",   "unit",      "integer",  "key",   "value")
    //! runtextmacro AdvancedTable_make("Item",    "item",     "Item",     "Handle",   "Handle",   "item",      "integer",  "key",   "value")
endlibrary

local UnitTable ut = UnitTable.create()
set ut[0] = CreateUnit('hpea', Player(0), 0., 0., 0.)