loadLayoutfromData() was removed - but is useful

[seclorum]

Hi Derick - I have been using loadLayoufromData() in the moaigui API, to be able to things like this:

app_screens = { 
  { data = dofile(resources.getPath("layout_welcome.lua")),         layername="welcome_" },
  { data = dofile(resources.getPath("layout_genderselect.lua")),    layername="genderselect_" },
  { data = dofile(resources.getPath("layout_weightselect.lua")),    layername="weightselect_" },
  { data = dofile(resources.getPath("layout_heightselect.lua")),    layername="heightselect_" },
  { data = dofile(resources.getPath("layout_birthday.lua")),        layername="birthday_" },
  { data = dofile(resources.getPath("layout_summary.lua")),         layername="summary_" },
}

--- then, later on:

        roots, widgets, groups = g:loadLayoutfromData(app_screens[screen_requested].data, app_screens[screen_requested].layername)

.. and actually, this has worked very well for multi-form layouts. I was just wondering what the reason for removing this from the API was, and if there is an alternative method that you'd like us to be using?

[derickd]

I went back and checked previous versions (I have kept a list of all downloads at http://code.google.com/p/moaigui/downloads/list), and I can't seem to find the loadLayoutFromData function. Are you referring to the loadLayout function? That function should still be available. Is it possible this was a function you had added yourself, and then downloaded the new version and copied it over the version you had with this change?

[seclorum]

I've submitted a patch for this method to be added to the main moaigui core codebase .. as it is very useful for having multiple GUI's to switch between in an app .. I will prepare a sample shortly and submit it as well.