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Hi there!

I have a perplexing problem. I have a local table, textures, which is indexed by the texture object/widget. The value at a given index is true if the texture is in use, and false if not. (to store previously created textures to save work)

Now the perplexing part is that somewhere the texture is losing it's classification or whatever as a widget. However, any manually set values inside the widgets table stay. I have absolutely no clue what's causing this to happen and I was wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them.

Below is my get and free texture functions.

local numTexs = 0
function ns:getTempTexture(parent)
	local texture
	
	for tex, used in pairs(textures) do
		if not texture and not used then
			texture = tex
			textures[texture] = true
			--print("Gave premade texture ", texture.name)
			break
		end
	end
	
	if not texture then -- need to make one
		texture = ns.frame:CreateTexture("Texture"..(numTexs))
		texture.name = "Texture"..(numTexs)
		textures[texture] = true
		--print("Made new texture ", texture.name)
	end
	
	numTexs = numTexs + 1
	texture:Hide()
	texture:SetParent(parent or ns.frame)
	
	return texture	
end

function ns:freeTempTexture(texture)
	
	if texture == nil then return end

	if textures[texture] then -- in use
		textures[texture] = false -- Free the texture up
		--print("Freed up texture ", texture.name)
		texture:Hide() -- Hide it.
		texture:ClearAllPoints() -- Unset it's location settings
		return
	end
	
	print("Attempting to remove a non used texture?")	
end

Now to be more specific, if I do a /dump on the textures table after a few textures have already been created, I get something like

textures = {
[Texture:Texture0] = false,
[Texture:Texture1] = false,
[Texture:Texture2] = false,
}

which is perfectly fine. However, when I call getTempTexture() after this point, I get an error that Hide() can't be performed on a non-widget. When I then dump out the textures table again, instead I get

textures = {
[{name="Texture0"}] = false,
[Texture:Texture1] = false,
[Texture:Texture2] = false,
}

Something is causing the object to lose it's texture properties but keep set values in the table, and I have absolutely no clue what it is.

Thoughts? Thanks!