From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: widget-create 'menu-choice Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:59:39 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87177.14397.qm@web111605.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253847631 10234 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2009 03:00:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:00:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 25 05:00:24 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 1Mr12m-0007G3-63 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:00:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39895 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr12l-0004YQ-JU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:00:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr12Q-0004Y1-8E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:00:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr12L-0004UY-NQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:00:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43405 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr12L-0004US-LI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:59:57 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55460) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mr12L-0001Ql-3m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:59:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mr12I-0007B0-IR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:59:54 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:59:54 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:59:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: <87177.14397.qm@web111605.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> 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:68456 Archived-At: 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)) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA