From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: widget-create 'menu-choice Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:31:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87hbustfk2.fsf@fh-trier.de> References: <86740.76919.qm@web111608.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253813566 11874 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2009 17:32:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:32:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 24 19:32:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MqsBL-0004fo-Au for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:32:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MqsBK-0002RY-Pw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:32:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MqsAv-0002R4-UR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:32:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MqsAq-0002LR-M7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:32:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43687 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MqsAq-0002LJ-Bg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:32:08 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55087) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MqsAp-0000pN-Qb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:32:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MqsAm-0004X3-8F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:32:04 +0200 Original-Received: from dslb-084-059-223-104.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.59.223.104]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:32:04 +0200 Original-Received: from politza by dslb-084-059-223-104.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:32:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-084-059-223-104.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GDjsJEMvDcT50PegaOcOFLgNb0Q= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68449 Archived-At: Mortimer Cladwell writes: > 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 `apply' solves this problem. (apply #'* 1 2 3 '(4 5)) -ap