Trying to figure out the best way to accomplish this...

[Black-Raven546]

So im working on a shop system, i know how to code the shop it self (for the most part), but im looking for convenient ways to do this, (not new to programming, new to lua)

Questions:
How could i make a dynamic grid using SpawnIcons, say static 4 across, then how every many items are in a dataset would dictate how many rows

What would be the best way to create a "database" that i can add onto? (atm im just guessing a table, which to my understanding is just lua for an array?)

Im going to sort through the darkrp code to see if i can find something, is there a luabin site for darkrp?

[Drakehawke]

[url=http://code.google.com/p/darkrp/source/browse/]You can browse the source here.[/url]

A table in Lua, can be an array, but it can also be like a map from programming languages.

[lua]
local mytable = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 } -- normal array

local mytable2 = {}
mytable2[ "hello" ] = player.GetAll()[1] -- map style behaviour
[/lua]

Any anywhere in between is fine too.

For your grid, you don't even have to do as much as your saying, you can use a [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=DPanelList]DPanelList[/url] (See [url=http://wiki.garrysmod.com/?title=Derma]Derma[/url]) which will organise the icons for you, according to the methods you use on it.

[Black-Raven546]

Oh i forgot darkrp was on googlecode thanks for reminding me lol

And i thought PanelList only worked on a few things not everything, thanks for the info!

Edit: found the entity add snippit

[lua]
DarkRPEntities = {}
function AddEntity(name, entity, model, price, max, command, classes)
if not name or not entity or not price or not command then
hook.Add("PlayerSpawn", "ItemError", function(ply)
if ply:IsAdmin() then ply:ChatPrint("WARNING: Item made incorrectly, failed to load!") end end)
return
end
if type(classes) == "number" then
classes = {classes}
end
table.insert(DarkRPEntities, {name = name, ent = entity, model = model, price = price, max = max, cmd = command, allowed = classes})
AddEntityCommands(name, entity, max, price)
end
[/lua]

on line11 did it just add a table in a table? Or what is it doing there.

[Drakehawke]

You can (pretty much) have as many tables within tables within tables (etc) as you like in Lua.

/inception

The DPanelList *should* work on anything derived from a panel, which is pretty much (if not) everything.

[havejack]

Well it the thing is It wrks in singeplayer but when i try it on a server the shopsystem he trys to make wont popup at all (Blackravens's friend)

[Drakehawke]

I posted in the other thread why it doesn't work, he's forgotten to do require( "datastream" ) in the files that use it. I think it works in singleplayer because there's no networking involved.