function creation

[rexzooly]

When making functions how do i enable it so i can use EG:

_Left or _Right not "_Left" or "_Right",

I really can't work it out any ideas? as this would clean up my functions and also help with my plugin

Rex

[rexzooly]

Ok am i right in thinking i have to defind them vebs before

_Right = "_Right";
_Left = "_Left";

Rex

[rexzooly]

Ok new problem.

I get my others working and say i do Get(_Right, eType);

and the Get is

function Get(_Right, eType, eName);

eType..Prop = eType.GetPos(eName);

end

i get a error bla bla =;

I want to streal line a function to do many things and i need to do this how can
i do it?

Why can't i dynamicly get set my verbs?

[Sakuya]

Originally Posted by rexzooly

Ok new problem.

I get my others working and say i do Get(_Right, eType);

and the Get is

function Get(_Right, eType, eName);

eType..Prop = eType.GetPos(eName);

end

i get a error bla bla =;

I want to streal line a function to do many things and i need to do this how can
i do it?

Why can't i dynamicly get set my verbs?

You lost me.

Streal line a function? Dynamically set verbs?

Also I don't think this is Lua..

eType..Prop = eType.GetPos(eName);

I'm pretty sure it should be:

eType.Prop = eType.GetPos(eName);

..and if I assume that eType is a table such as Image and eName is the object name, what are you trying to do?

[rexzooly]

Not sure what i was trying to way there sorry lol i will explane again silly me.


Ok i have a function

Something(_Img, "Image1");

function Something(eType, eName)
if eType == _Img then

ImageName Do

elseif eType == _Label then

LableName Do

end
end

what i want do do is insted of all the else ifs i wants to make the sting to right the Veb Dynamic aka eType.SetVisable(eName);

I have manual did the if commands for now but i was just thinking od a way to shorten my functions.

[holtgrewe]

function SetVisible(MyObject)
  TheObj=Page.GetObjectType (""..MyObject)
  if TheObj == 0 then Button.SetVisible(""..MyObject, true)
  elseif TheObj == 1 then Label.SetVisible(""..MyObject, true)
  elseif TheObj == 2 then Paragraphl.SetVisible(""..MyObject, true)
  elseif TheObj == 3 then Image.SetVisible(""..MyObject, true)
--etc for the rest of the objects
  end 
end -- function

Somewhere in the coding you will have to determine what the object type is, using nested if's or whatever method...if it's in a functon, it is a simple copy and paste from one project to the next.

I'm certain that someone with the skills could write a plugin or dll to accomplish this also...but why...?

The above example should set any object on a page visible (you will have to include the "elseif logic" for the remainder of the AMS objects of course. You could easily convert the coding to a table structure as well.

SetVisible("AnyObject")

You could create similar function for "SetInvisible", "SetEnabled", etc.

hth

[Sakuya]

Originally Posted by holtgrewe

function SetVisible(MyObject)
  TheObj=Page.GetObjectType (""..MyObject)
  if TheObj == 0 then Button.SetVisible(""..MyObject, true)
  elseif TheObj == 1 then Label.SetVisible(""..MyObject, true)
  elseif TheObj == 2 then Paragraphl.SetVisible(""..MyObject, true)
  elseif TheObj == 3 then Image.SetVisible(""..MyObject, true)
--etc for the rest of the objects
  end 
end -- function

Somewhere in the coding you will have to determine what the object type is, using nested if's or whatever method...if it's in a functon, it is a simple copy and paste from one project to the next.

I'm certain that someone with the skills could write a plugin or dll to accomplish this also...but why...?

The above example should set any object on a page visible (you will have to include the "elseif logic" for the remainder of the AMS objects of course. You could easily convert the coding to a table structure as well.

SetVisible("AnyObject")

You could create similar function for "SetInvisible", "SetEnabled", etc.

hth

I'm confused as to why you do this:

""..MyObject

and not just

MyObject

does this automatically turn the variable into a string? If it does, you may as well have done this instead of making Lua turn the variable into a string 5 times.

function SetVisible(MyObject)
  TheObj=Page.GetObjectType (MyObject)
  MyObject = tostring(MyObject);
  if TheObj == 0 then Button.SetVisible(MyObject, true)
  elseif TheObj == 1 then Label.SetVisible(MyObject, true)
  elseif TheObj == 2 then Paragraphl.SetVisible(MyObject, true)
  elseif TheObj == 3 then Image.SetVisible(MyObject, true)
--etc for the rest of the objects
  end 
end -- function

[holtgrewe]

Originally Posted by Sakuya

does this automatically turn the variable into a string? If it does, you may as well have done this instead of making Lua turn the variable into a string 5 times.

Thanks for pointing that out. It's so great having a code monitor looking over our shoulder to point out our coding flaws...LOL