[JW Lua] Combining NumberedList and Number in the dialog - solved

[Jan Angermüller]

On 2014-09-13 21:12, Jari Williamsson wrote:
> Mixing NumberedList and Number types in a dialog is not yet supported 
> for SetLists(). This has to do with a future feature I had in mind. 

Here is a simple solution for the above mentioned problem of combining 
lists with other types in a dialog on-the-fly which has not been solved 
yet in finenv.UserValueInput():SetLists().
Simply use SetLists() in a Load() statement.  See example code below.
The only drawback: the dialog variable needs to be global now. Otherwise 
Load() won't work.

Best regards,
Jan

local dialogTypes={}
local dialogLists={}
local dialogDescriptions={}
local dialogInitValues={}
dialog = finenv.UserValueInput()

local displaylist = '{"aa","bb"}'
local numelements=3
local s="dialog:SetLists("
local i=1
while i <= numelements do
      if i>1 then
         s=s..","
      end
      table.insert(dialogTypes,"NumberedList")
      table.insert(dialogTypes,"Number")
      table.insert(dialogTypes,"String")
      s=s..displaylist..","
      s=s.."nil,"
      s=s.."nil"
      table.insert(dialogDescriptions,i..".) Element 1")
      table.insert(dialogDescriptions,i..".) Element 2")
      table.insert(dialogDescriptions,i..".) Element 3")
      table.insert(dialogInitValues,1)
      table.insert(dialogInitValues,1)
      table.insert(dialogInitValues,"test")
      i=i+1
end
s=s..")"

dialog.Title = "Dialog title"
dialog:SetTypes(dialogTypes)
load(s)()
dialog:SetDescriptions(dialogDescriptions)
dialog:SetInitValues(dialogInitValues)
local returnvalues = dialog:Execute()