From: Mortimer Cladwell <mbcladwell@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: widget-create 'menu-choice
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:52:47 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <372723.63065.qm@web111602.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (raw)
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(apply 'widget-create 'menu-choice....
Will create multiple dropdown lists. I want a single dropdown that has
multiple elements. I am thinking a macro is the way to go. Consider:
(defmacro item-element (var)
(list 'quote `'(item ,var)))
Then (item-element "human") would evaluate to (quote (item "human"))
What I haven't been able to do is mapcar item-element over my list
("rat" "human" "mouse")
The desired output is:
(quote (item "rat")) (quote (item "human")) (quote (item "mouse"))
Note the absence of circumscribed parenthesis, i.e. this is not a list.
Suggestions?
Thanks
Mortimer
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Mortimer Cladwell wrote:
Your suggestion evaluates to:
>>
>((item "human") (item "rat") (item "mouse"))
>>
>which when inserted into a form results in the error:
>>
>widget-create: Invalid function: (item "human")
>
Ah, I misread the widget-create arguments. That function's doc string is
practically useless.
Evaluations that would work are:
>>
>'(item "human") '(item "rat") '(item "mouse")
>>OR
>
>(quote (item "human")) (quote (item "rat")) (quote (item "mouse"))
>>
Note that there are no enclosing parenthesis around the list.
>
As Andreas points out, you need apply:
(defvar species '("human" "rat" "mouse"))
(apply 'widget-create 'menu-choice :tag "Select Host Species" :value "unknown" :notify (lambda (widget &rest ignore) (setq host-species (widget-value widget))) (mapcar (lambda (label) (list 'item label)) species))
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-26 21:52 Mortimer Cladwell [this message]
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2009-09-24 16:13 Re:Re: widget-create 'menu-choice Mortimer Cladwell
2009-09-25 2:59 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-09-18 18:54 Mortimer Cladwell
2009-09-22 2:28 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-09-24 17:31 ` Andreas Politz
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