Creating GUI elements from script

[planetX]

Hi There,

I'm working on an interface and want to create some items in runtime. I have a <div> which is the container, and I want to create the items inside that container. The markup would look similar to this:

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<div id="container">
   <div></div>  <-- these are the elements I want to create
   <div></div>
   ...
</div>


And this is the Lua script. I'm taking the elements from an array:

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function ShowItems()
   local strItem = 0
   for i=1,total_items,1 do
      strItem = "<div class=\"element\">"
      strItem = strItem.."<div class=\"icon\">"
      strItem = strItem.."<div class=\"thumb "..items[i]["image"].."\"></div>"
      strItem = strItem.."</div>"
      strItem = strItem.."<div class=\"amount\">"
      strItem = strItem.."<div class=\"have\">"..items[i]["amount"].."</div>"
      strItem = strItem.."</div>"
      strItem = strItem.."</div>"
      gui.setText( GUI_ID , "container", strItem )
   end   
end


The problem is that I only get one item in the screen, although in the console I get it printed several times (= total_items).

How can I create all the items?

Thanks in advance!

[planetX]

Nevermind, I finally managed to solve it. I was replacing the variable at every loop, so all I had to do is concatenate the strings and get the gui.setText() out of the loop.

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function ShowItems()
   local strItem = ""
   for i=1,total_items,1 do
      strItem = strItem.."<div class=\"element\">"
      strItem = strItem.."<div class=\"icon\">"
      strItem = strItem.."<div class=\"thumb "..items[i]["image"].."\"></div>"
      strItem = strItem.."</div>"
      strItem = strItem.."<div class=\"amount\">"
      strItem = strItem.."<div class=\"have\">"..items[i]["amount"].."</div>"
      strItem = strItem.."</div>"
      strItem = strItem.."</div>"
   end   
   gui.setText( GUI_ID , "container", strItem )
end


[SolarPortal]

glad you got that fixed and sorry for the delay in response, only got back onto the dev machine today