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Dynamic Menu with LibAddonMenu

Still learning so I hope the answer isn't obvious. I'm testing creating a dynamic menu using LibAddonMenu and I can get the menu to show up with no errors but I'm having an issue when it comes to the get/set. I'm unable to get them to properly read or assign the settings. I'm 90% sure that the issue is getting the "functionGet/functionSet" functions to be uniform and not have part of it be a string just not sure how to accomplish. :confused:

The functions I'm using to create the menu are:

Lua Code:

local function CheckboxMenuAdd(settingName)
    local set = settingName
    local setting = AllCraft_Decon.deconSettings
--Find a way to get this to populate properly, Answer is always nil
    local functionGet =  function() return setting.set end
    local functionSet = function(value) setting.set = value end
 
    local x = {}
        x.type = "checkbox"
        x.name = tostring(settingName)
        x.getFunc = functionGet
        x.setFunc = functionSet
    return x
end
 
function ACLoadMenu()
    local t = getmetatable(AllCraft_Decon.deconSettings).__index
    local setting = AllCraft_Decon.deconSettings
    local menu = {type = "submenu",
    name = "Table Options",
    controls = {}}
 
    for key, value in pairs(t) do
        if key ~= "version" then
            if string.find( key,"Deconstruct_Set_Type_") then
                table.insert (menu.controls, CheckboxMenuAdd(key))
            end
        end
    end
    return menu
end

FullCode@ https://github.com/MethosFrost/AllCraft

No time to review your code but what I can offer is an example (a complex though!):
You can check the FCO ItemSaver code for example, file src/FCOIS_SettingsMenu.lua
In the upper part of function BuildAddonMenu you'll find several dynamically created (via loops) settings menus submenus containing checkboxes, dropdown etc.

Hope the code helps you.

LibAddonMenu2 wasn't made with dynamic menus in mind, so adding controls on the fly isn't easily possible. After the panel was opened the first time and all the controls are created, LAM doesn't add any new controls. So you'd have to take care of creating them yourself and since destroying controls isn't possible in ESO, you'd have to manage removing them in a way that doesn't cause a memory leak.
All in all, not something I can recommend if it can be avoided, as it could easily break on LAM updates.

You always use the same setting called "set".
I guess you want to do:

Lua Code:

setting[set]

setting.set is setting["set"]. Not setting.$set like in powershell.

Quote:

Originally Posted by votan (Post 39842)

You always use the same setting called "set".
I guess you want to do:

Lua Code:

setting[set]

setting.set is setting["set"]. Not setting.$set like in powershell.

That's exactly what I was looking for, Thanks! I was unsure how to convert that out of being a string in lua.