Shorter way to do this?

[Sythalin]

I tried many different ways, that have all failed, so wondering if I'm just missing something to make this shorter:

CART_ActiveProfile[name] = {backdropColor = {r=1,g=1,b=1}}

f:SetBackdropColor(CART_ActiveProfile[name].backdropColor.r, CART_ActiveProfile[name].backdropColor.b, CART_ActiveProfile[name].backdropColor.g)

I've tried:

CART_ActiveProfile[name] = {backdropColor = {(1,1,1)}
f:SetBackdropColor(CART_ActiveProfile[name].backdropColor)

... but keeps coming back with errors. I've tried several different formats and only one I've been able to get to work correctly is the first example.

[Slakah]

local bcolour = CART_ActiveProfile[name].backdropColor
f:SetBackdropColor(bcolour.r, bcolour.g, bcolour.b)

or

local function getrgb(tbl) return tbl.r, tbl.g, tbl.b end
f:SetBackdropColor(getrgb(CART_ActiveProfile[name].backdropColor))

would also work.

[Waverian]

CART_ActiveProfile[name] = {backdropColor = {1,1,1}}

f:SetBackdropColor(unpack(CART_ActiveProfile[name]))

[xConStruct]

Or unpacking the indexed array in your second example:

CART_ActiveProfile[name] = {backdropColor = {1,1,1}
f:SetBackdropColor(unpack(CART_ActiveProfile[name].backdropColor))

Note that I removed the () brackets in your first line, because I don't have any idea why they're there

EDIT: Waverian was faster :/

[Waverian]

Originally Posted by Cargor EDIT: Waverian was faster :/

Well, yours will actually work though. I guess we're even.