Can I do this using arrays and surfaces?

[markc74]

Hope someone far cleverer than me can help!

I'm creating a new layout for use on my living room box (so widescreen and a little snazzier than my usual ones!)

I had an idea to create a cool filter select menu where you can press a button and move around a grid of available filters, grouped in rows - so my top row might be "all games','most played','favourites' and the next row might be arcade - 'mame','model 3','teknoparrot' etc

I can push the filters into an array fine:

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local s_list = ["Top","Arcade"];
local f_list = [];
      f_list.append(["Top","All Games"]);
      f_list.append(["Top","Favourites"]);
      f_list.append(["Top","Most Played"]);
      f_list.append(["Arcade","Classics"]);
      f_list.append(["Arcade","Model 2"]);
etc

But what I would like to do, is generate surfaces on the fly based on the row that they appear in. I'd then like to reference those surfaces by their generated name so I can scroll them independently. So in the above example I would have a surface called "Top" and another surface called "Arcade"

So something like this:

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foreach (s in s_list) {
      #Generate surface based on s value at posiition y
      foreach (f in f_list) {
            # Add items to above surface at position x
            # x=x+200
      }
      y=y+200
}

I could obviously hard code all the filters in, but this would be pretty long-winded and not very flexible.

Is there a way this can be done?

[jedione]

i would jump up on discord,,,good peeps...you are known im shure of it,

your skills are ...always needed

[markc74]

i would jump up on discord,,,good peeps...you are known im shure of it,

your skills are ...always needed

Ah thanks! Is there a particular board? I don't use Discord very often so not really used to the layout

[jedione]

yaa,   here you go https://discord.gg/F7YFXnVj

i think you will like it...good people