LAM-2.0 control creation

[Migoda]

Hey all,

i have two addons running that still use LAM-1.0 and it does not look that they will get an update to version 2 in the near future. So i tried updating them on my own, but got stuck at some point.

I read the guides provided for LAM-2.0 but with my little coding experience in LUA i could not figure out how to create controls dynamically. One of the addons creates some editboxes using a for loop and LAM:AddEditBox. How would i do that in LAM-2.0? I have just used LAM2:RegisterOptionControls and that static options table so far.

Thanks in advance!

[merlight]

You can build the options table incrementally with table.insert. Here's is how I create 5 checkboxes for guilds in a loop, with uninteresting parts stripped off. Hope it helps

local function mkoptGuildCheckbox(guildIndex)
    return { 
        type = "checkbox",
        name = GetGuildName(GetGuildId(guildIndex)),
        getFunc = function() ... end,
        setFunc = function(value) ... end,
        disabled = function()
            local guildId = GetGuildId(guildIndex)
            return not guildId or guildId == 0
        end,
    }
end
 
local function iniOptionControls()
    local optionsData = {}
    for guildIndex = 1, MAX_GUILDS do
        table.insert(optionsData, mkoptGuildCheckbox(guildIndex))
    end
    LAM:RegisterOptionControls(MYSETTINGSNAME, optionsData)
end

[zgrssd]

Originally Posted by Migoda Hey all, i have two addons running that still use LAM-1.0 and it does not look that they will get an update to version 2 in the near future. So i tried updating them on my own, but got stuck at some point. I read the guides provided for LAM-2.0 but with my little coding experience in LUA i could not figure out how to create controls dynamically. One of the addons creates some editboxes using a for loop and LAM:AddEditBox. How would i do that in LAM-2.0? I have just used LAM2:RegisterOptionControls and that static options table so far. Thanks in advance!

The easiest way to go from LAM 1 to LAM 2 is this interface Library:
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info5...Interface.html

It takes your LAM 1.0 commands, the LAM 2.0 files and makes a proper LAM 2 style menu out of it.
Asuming you are not doing anything special with those elements it should work just fine.

[Seerah]

Or this...

local controlTemplate = { 
        type = "checkbox",
        name = GetGuildName(GetGuildId(guildIndex)),
        getFunc = function() ... end,
        setFunc = function(value) ... end,
        disabled = function()
            local guildId = GetGuildId(guildIndex)
            return not guildId or guildId == 0
        end,
    }
 
local addonOptions = {
        [1] = controlTemplate,
        [2] = controlTemplate
}

[merlight]

Originally Posted by Seerah Or this... local controlTemplate = {         type = "checkbox",         name = GetGuildName(GetGuildId(guildIndex)),         getFunc = function() ... end,         setFunc = function(value) ... end,         disabled = function()             local guildId = GetGuildId(guildIndex)             return not guildId or guildId == 0         end,     }   local addonOptions = {         [1] = controlTemplate,         [2] = controlTemplate }

This alone won't work. You'd need to set addonOptions[i].name and addonOptions[i].disabled in a loop anyway, otherwise the name would be just empty string, and disabled() would always return true. My mkoptGuildCheckbox() constructor returns a table with .name filled, and more importantly, creates a closure containing guildIndex, so that all functions (getFunc, setFunc, disabled) have guildIndex of the guild they shall work with.

[Seerah]

Right. I was just showing what is possible to the OP.

[Migoda]

Thanks for your responses and the examples, i appreciate them .

Got a little problem with LAM:RegisterAddonPanel yesterday, producing an Failed to create control (Duplicate Name) error. Any idea what i am doing wrong? The name i used is definitely unique.

[Garkin]

Originally Posted by Migoda Thanks for your responses and the examples, i appreciate them . Got a little problem with LAM:RegisterAddonPanel yesterday, producing an Failed to create control (Duplicate Name) error. Any idea what i am doing wrong? The name i used is definitely unique.

This UI error is shown if some addon registers panels before library is updated. Make sure that you don't register settings panel sooner then in EVENT_ADD_ON_LOADED handler.

By the way this issue is fixed in r13: http://www.esoui.com/portal.php?id=5...wbug&bugid=966