From: Mortimer Cladwell <mbcladwell@yahoo.com>
To: kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re:Re: widget-create 'menu-choice
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:13:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87177.14397.qm@web111605.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (raw)
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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")
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.
Thanks
Mortimer-----------------------------------------------------------------
Mortimer Cladwell wrote:
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)
>)
i.e.
(let ((var '("human" "rat" "mouse")))
(mapcar (lambda (label) (list 'item label))
var))
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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