need some help : trying to store my object's reference in table

jimlev

Another newbie question..

I probably do the things the bad way, but here is my problem:
I want to store in a table (name columnListOfGameTextBox ) all the instances of textfield that I dynamically create in my func

It seems to work well but when I print my table, the first entry is crap. Others work well... any idea ?
Does the way I want to do it is a foolish one ?

local columnListOfGameTextBox ={{0,0},{0,0},{0,0},{0,0}}   function createTextboxStage() -- **********creation des txtfields du stage   for i=1, 4 do for j=1, 2 do local txtbox = TextField.new(nil, "ABC") stage:addChild(txtbox)   columnListOfGameTextBox[i][j]= txtbox -- here I add the instance to my table end end   printtbl(columnListOfGameTextBox)   end   function printtbl( t,tab,lookup ) local lookup = lookup or { [t] = 1 } local tab = tab or "" for i,v in pairs( t ) do print( tab..tostring(i), v ) if type(i) == "table" and not lookup[i] then lookup[i] = 1 print( tab.."Table: i" ) printtbl( i,tab.."\t",lookup ) end if type(v) == "table" and not lookup[v] then lookup[v] = 1 print( tab.."Table: v" ) printtbl( v,tab.."\t",lookup ) end end end   createTextboxStage()

any idea ? 8-}

BJG

when I print my table, the first entry is crap. Others work well... any idea ?

I get this output...

1 table: 048A7C08
Table: v
1 0
2 0

2 table: 048A8580
Table: v
1 0
2 0

3 table: 048A7EC8
Table: v
1 0
2 0

4 table: 048A7F18
Table: v
1 0
2 0

Not sure what you mean about the first entry. What output did you want...? (I'm not sure what exactly you're trying to do...)

jimlev

arf...
I leave the 'problem' line commented in the sample code.

try it now (example above shows the pb)

here is the output I get :

1 table: 042087C8 Table: v 1 table: 04209468 Table: v __userdata userdata: 042094A8 __parent table: 041FB540 Table: v __userdata userdata: 041FB580 __children table: 04209550 Table: v userdata: 00E22688 table: 042097C0 Table: v __userdata userdata: 04209848 __parent table: 041FB540 userdata: 00E53908 table: 04209A18 Table: v __userdata userdata: 04209AA0 __parent table: 041FB540 userdata: 00E4B838 table: 04209760 Table: v __userdata userdata: 042097A0 __parent table: 041FB540 userdata: 00DE5D68 table: 04209680 Table: v __userdata userdata: 042096C0 __parent table: 041FB540 userdata: 00E2FCA8 table: 042095C0 Table: v __userdata userdata: 04209600 __parent table: 041FB540 userdata: 04572CE8 table: 04209468 userdata: 00E7F7D0 table: 04209858 Table: v __userdata userdata: 04209750 __parent table: 041FB540 userdata: 00E07530 table: 041FB5B8 Table: v __userdata userdata: 04209628 __parent table: 041FB540 2 table: 042095C0 2 table: 04208D08 Table: v 1 table: 041FB5B8 2 table: 04209680 3 table: 04208690 Table: v 1 table: 042097C0 2 table: 04209858 4 table: 042093B0 Table: v 1 table: 04209760 2 table: 04209A18

BJG

When presenting a problem it's best to explain what you're trying to achieve, how you're trying to achieve it, and the minimum amount of code needed to demonstrate the difficulty. Comments and meaningful variable names would also help. Otherwise it's too much like hard work.

(First the "printtb1" function is called with a single argument, then it calls itself with three arguments. I know Lua is fairly carefree about this kind of thing, but since it's apparently producing the wrong output the first time, I'm wondering if it's initially working with the wrong parameters. I don't understand what they should be though.)

jimlev

When presenting a problem it's best to explain what you're trying to achieve, how you're trying to achieve it, and the minimum amount of code needed to demonstrate the difficulty.

I really don't know what ur talking about :-/ Everything looks extremly clear... for me
I'm going to clean the code a "little bit" or, better, make a simplified version and try to explain the goal behind that mess

thx BJG