Populating an iup list from a lua table

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I'm building up a set of IUP dialog 'helper' functions -- boilerplate that I can include in my Lua code to quickly implement frequently used interface functionality in a consistent manner.

I have a function to make a "standard" iup list with a callback:

function MakeList(funcSelect)
    return iup.list{
        valuechanged_cb = function(self)
            funcSelect()
        end,
        sort = "YES", dropdown = "YES", editbox = "NO",
        expand = "YES", visibleitems = "5"}
end

but I now want to enhance it to optionally populate it with a list of static values, so that I can call for example mylist = MakeList(myFunction, {"X", "B", "Q"}) where the function spec is function MakeList(funcSelect, tblVals) and return the list populated if the table of values is given as (the equivalent) of

iup.list{"X", "B", "Q";
        valuechanged_cb = function(self)
            funcSelect()
        end,
        sort = "YES", dropdown = "YES", editbox = "NO",
        expand = "YES", visibleitems = "5"}

but (eventually) not populated if the table of values is not specified or empty -- that's stage 2 of the problem.

The list will be populated before the mapping; I know how to do it after mapping using myList.APPENDITEM but for static lists that shouldn't be necessary (should it?)

I've tried

function MakeStaticList(funcSelect, tblVals)
    return iup.list{table.unpack(tblVals);
        valuechanged_cb = function(self)
            funcSelect()
        end,
        sort = "YES", dropdown = "YES", 
        editbox = "NO", expand = "YES", visibleitems = "5"}
end

but that trips over this behaviour: Lua unpack() messing arguments so only the first item in the table is added to the list.

I've also tried

function MakeStaticList(funcSelect, tblVals)
    l = iup.list{valuechanged_cb = function(self)
            funcSelect()
        end,
        sort = "YES", dropdown = "YES", editbox = "NO", expand = "YES", visibleitems = "5"}
      for i, v in ipairs(tblVals) do
            l[tostring(i)]=v
      end
    return l
end

and that works, but is there a neater way of doing it?

I want to crack the populating problem first and then move on to the optionality of the table of values after that.

Environment is Lua 5.1 with the compat-5.3 module.

table.unpack(tblVals) should work if it's the last thing in the table literal. Otherwise, it's truncated to one value. — cyclaminist
– cyclaminist, Commented Jan 6, 2019 at 23:53

ColeValleyGirl · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-14 12:58:06Z

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IN case it helps anyone, what I finally did was (catering for indexed and non-indexed lists):

    local function PopulateList(l, tblVals)
        local is_indexed = (rawget( tblVals, 1 ) ~= nil)
        if not is_indexed then
            local i=1
            for k, _ in pairs(tblVals) do
                l[tostring(i)]=k
                i=i+1
            end
        else
            for i, v in ipairs(tblVals) do
                l[tostring(i)]=v
            end 
        end
    end

answered Jan 14, 2019 at 12:58

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Oct Kira · Accepted Answer · 2024-04-18 09:26:54Z

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Functions with multiple return values should be placed at the end of the table, otherwise they will be truncated.

local function foo() return 1,2,3,4,5 end
local t1 = {foo();}--{1,2,3,4,5}
local t2 = {foo();x="x"}--{[1]=1,x="x"}
local t3 = {x= "x",y="y",foo();}--{[1]=1,[2]=2,[3]=3,[4]=4,[5]=5,x="x",y="y"}

answered Apr 18, 2024 at 9:26

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