Accessing a widget by its name stored in a variable

[Samahell]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a way to access a widget by its name in a string, so I can operate modifications on the name and access the widget's methods.
Something like the Javascript's GetElementById(id) or GetElementByName(name) would be perfect.

Actually, my point is to access sequentially to some methods of several brother (same parent) widgets with similar names, so that the next exemple :

My_Button_1:SetText(textTab[1]);
My_Button_1:Enable();
My_Button_2:SetText(textTab[2]);
My_Button_2:Enable();
...

could be changed in something like that :

for x=1, y, 1 do
  My_Button = AccessMyWidgetByName("My_Button_" .. toString(x));
  My_Button:SetText(textTab[x]);
  My_Button:Enable();
end

Thank you.

(Excuse my english, I'm french, so donot hesitate to ask me to reformulate some sentences if I expressed them badly).

[haste]

Just index the global table.

for x=1, y, 1 do
  local button = _G["My_Button_" .. x];
  button:SetText(textTab[x]);
  button:Enable();
end

[Duugu]

Just for interest:

What's the difference between

local button = _G["My_Button_" .. x];

and

local button = getglobal("My_Button_" .. x)

?

[Xolan]

I prefer using getglobal() myself, but I'm guessing that it's slightly inefficient compared to the other, in terms of cpu and memory usage.

[Samahell]

Ok thanks a lot, this is exactly what I was looking for, I should have thought to this by myself ^^