[Slakah]

Originally Posted by Seerah When I add a new variable to be saved after MYVAR has been created, MYVAR doesn't pick it up. I get errors because even though it's defined in the defaults table, the addon is looking for it in MYVAR. Which is the best way to go about this?

You can use metatables to set a default value if no value for that key is found.

i.e.

local defaults = {
	foo = "bar",
	tbl = {
		cat = "meow",
		dog = "bark",
		cow = "moo"
	}
}

local myDB = setmetatable(myDB or {}, {__index = defaults})

so if I were to do

print(myDB.foo)

then it would output "bar", and

print(myDB.tbl.cow)

would output "moo".

but then if I were to do

myDB.tbl.cow = "asleep"

then

print(myDB.tbl.cow)

would output "asleep".

Hope this helps.