Understanding an lua line

[Animor]

Hello,

I'm looking at an addon called IME to understand how some things are done.
The first line in the LUA file of the addon is:

local addonName, IMETable = ...

After that, the addon uses those 2 variables.
I don't understand how this thing works. Where does the vararg string come from? the toc file perhaps?

IME Addon link:
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...hodEditor.html

Thanks in advance!

[Xrystal]

The 2nd variable is an addon wide variable that allows you to use the same data across multple files.

EG.

File1
local addonTable, addonData = ...
addonData.variable1 = 10

File2
local addonTable,addonData = ...
print(addonData.variable1)


As long as the setting of th variable happns before using it you can pass the data across your files. It's a new feature added in 3.3 if I remember rightly.

This way you can have local variables that don't force you to have one big file for your addon. You can now spread your addons functionality across multiple files.

This also allows you to put identical functionality from multiple addons in a single file and just use that file in all your addons.

Hope that helps you somewhat but like I did you might find it easier to understand if you try it out with a simple addon.

[Rilgamon]

It comes from the loading process. Every file in your addon-loading process is passed the name and a table that is shared through all files.
So you can fill the table with data and functions in one file and use it in another.

[Animor]

Thank you both for your answers!