Help with tables

[Dreadlorde]

I'm using tables to display art on the screen with an addon I'm writing, and was wondering if this would work:

local textures = {
    { name = "Self and Target Frame",
      bgFile = "Interface\\AddOns\\Chimaine\\PlainBackdrop",
      EdgeFile = "Interface\\Addons\\Tooltip\\UI-Tooltip-Border",
      tile = false, 
      tileSize = 0, 
      edgeSize = 32,
      insets = { left = 0, right = 0, top = 0, bottom = 0 }
      width = "108",
      height = "108",
      scale = "143"
    },
}

for id, entry in ipairs(textures) do
   chimaine.CreateTexture(entry.name, id, entry.file)
   chimaine.SetWidth(entry.width)
   chimaine.SetHeight(entry.height)
   -- I don't know the rest
end

Would that work if I used it in-game? I'm asking because I need to do it with about 10 textures and don't want to code them all and not have the work.

Thanks for any help.

[Shirik]

That is actually a very preferable way to do it, except that "entry.file" does not exist. The general design idea, though, is solid.

[Dreadlorde]

Alright, thanks Shirik.

The last part (and most of the structure of the code) I got from the WoW Programming book and was in a hurry so I just copied it real fast.

[Dreadlorde]

When I try this in game though, I get this error:

Interface\Addans\Chimaine\Chimaine.lua:27: attempt to index global 'chimaine' (a nile value)

Line 27 (and the rest of it's code block) is:

26    for id, entry in ipairs(textures) do 
27       chimaine.CreateTexture(entry.name, id) 
28       chimaine.SetWidth(entry.width) 
29       chimaine.SetHeight(entry.height) 
30     
31       entry.name:SetBackdrop{ 
32          bgFile = entry.bgFile, 
33          edgeFile = entry.EdgeFile, 
34          edgeSize = entry.EdgeSize, 
35          tile = entry.tile, tileSize = entry.tileSize, 
36          insets = entry.insets 
37        } 
38    end

What I'm doing wrong?

[Seerah]

You haven't defined what chimaine is

[Dreadlorde]

Would something like this work?

local chimaine = CreateFrame("frame",nil,UIParent)

[Slakah]

Originally Posted by Dreadlorde Would something like this work? local chimaine = CreateFrame("frame",nil,UIParent)

Theres no point really you can create a frame using UIParent.

local tex = UIParent:CreateTexture(entry.name) 
tex:SetWidth(entry.width) 
tex:SetHeight(entry.height)

I personally wouldn't use a table for none dynamic frames. I would just create a function to set up a texture using args passed to it.

i.e.

local maketex(name, height, width, ...)
   local tex = UIParent:CreateTexture(name)
   tex:SetHeight(height)
   tex:SetWidth(width)
   tex:SetPoint(...)
end

maketex("Cow", 10, 10, "TOPLEFT", UIParent, "BOTTOMRIGHT", -1, 2)
--etc.

I would just like to point out chimaine.SetHeight(entry.height) does not equal chimaine:SetHeight(entry.height) but,

chimaine:SetHeight(entry.height)

=

chimaine.SetHeight(chimaine, entry.height)