passing table and value to add to table as raiseEvent arguments

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redbananasea
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passing table and value to add to table as raiseEvent arguments

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In one script, I declare a bunch of tables, among them, table_a, with:

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table_a = {}
Another script, table_adder, is set up with the function:

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function table_adder (table, value)
table.insert(table, value)
end
The script has "table_adder" registered as an event handler. The purpose of the script is to accept the name of any of my previously declared tables and a numeric value and add the value to the table.

When I raise the table_adder event and call the function with:

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raiseEvent("table_adder", table_a, 1)
I get an error: bad argument #1 to 'insert' (table expected, got string). When I check the value of table within the function, I can see that its value is table_adder, the name of the function, not table_a, the table I was trying to pass. What am I doing wrong?

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demonnic
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Re: passing table and value to add to table as raiseEvent arguments

Post by demonnic »

The first parameter passed in for any event is the name of the event, so you'd want to change the function signature to table_adder(event, table, value) and it should work.

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