I have successfully created a small application that uses arraylists
of objects. However I have found it quite tiresome , when modifying
one of the objects in the arraylist to have to assign it to a
temporary instance before re-writing it.

something like...

temp_object1 = (object1) object1_arraylist[10]
temp_object1.element = "Something else"
object1_arraylist[10] = temp_object1

because it seems impossible to simply code:

(object1_arraylist[10]).element = "Something else"

Is there a simple way round this? Would pointers help?

Thanks for the tip!

steve tanner