Hi,

I would like to dynamically populate a dropdown widget from a database. the 'menu-choice widget looks like

(widget-create 'menu-choice
        :tag "Select Host Species"
        :value "unknown"
                 :notify (lambda (widget &rest ignore)
                           (setq host-species (widget-value widget)))
    '(item "human")

'(item "rat")

'(item "mouse"))

Suppose I can generate a list '( "human "rat" "mouse") from the database. How to create

'(item "human")

'(item "rat")

'(item "mouse")

on the fly? The closest I can come is

(progn
(setq var '( "human" "rat" "mouse"))

(mapcar '(lambda (a) `'(item ,a)) var)

)

Thanks

Mortimer