If you want to use all the examples from AMS 5 to AMS 7.5 in your AMS 8 projects, please take note below.

AMS 8 is using an updated version of LUA 5.1. One of the most important change is the TABLE ITERATION.

This is the old code used in AMS 5 to AMS 7.5 for TABLE ITERATION ( loops )

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mytable = {"One","Two","Three"};

for k, v in mytable do
Dialog.Message("Table Item", k .. "=" .. v);
end
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If my examples are using LOOPS, you need to change like below:


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mytable = {"One","Two","Three"};

for k, v in pairs(mytable) do
Dialog.Message("Table Item", k .. "=" .. v);
end
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See the word “pairs” in red and the bracket, above?

Just add a BRACKET around your TABLE NAME and add the word “pairs“.

Then all my examples using loops will work.

lol ….. 99.9 % of my examples are using LOOPS.
You’ll definitely have to change the codes.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

Probably the last example seems to be a bit complex.  Its actually not because it is the combination of all the simple samples here with a Grid added to it.

I have a suggestion, which I used a lot when learning from samples given by Worm, Tigger, Adam and Intrigue.  Grab every sample. Break it apart. Mess around with their objects and scripts. And then see what happens and how far we can go.

But there are times when we really need the help to kick-start. At least in my case, I do need such help. I need bare bone samples, just to understand how objects interact.

So here is a bare-bone, which shows how to populate Grid from an XML text file. Straight forward, no bells and no whistles.

Screen Shot : Load Grid from XML

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Hi,

XML ( Extensible Marked-up Language ) is used to structure, store and transport DATA. Simply means holding pure information wrapped in tags. An XML file can be shared across several software which supports it. As such, XML files are also known as an Open Document.

Some software which support XML files are AMS, Open Office,  Lotus Symphony, Google Docs, Corel, Star Office and most Web-based applications. No file format conversions needed.

In this example, we will see how to load Combo Box items from an XML file. The XML file has a very simple structure holding info about a list of friends.

Screen Shot : Load Combo Items from XML

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