Bugs & Feature Suggestions • Retrieving table elements using inline Lua

The underlying issue is that the "glue" functionality that binds Rainmeter and Lua together just doesn't support any direct reference to any table indexes through the interface. Not as a function parameter, not as a variable retrieval, just not at all.

As mentioned, the only way is to pass the name of the table and the index desired as separate parameters, and using a function() in Lua, get and return the desired value.

Of course. I've been doing the same in my scripts as well in the past, getting table elements through functions and all, it just seemed appropriate to mention it for a better understanding by other potential readers, or, if by any chance it was the case (which is not, as you just mentioned) to allow such references when retrieving a variable.

Means that the variable "t" is actually a table object in Lua. That can't be addressed directly in Rainmeter.

Indeed. It makes some sense judging by how Rainmeter operates otherwise, since nearly all, if not all measures in a skin must return a single value, while a table is by definition a set of (multiple) values encapsulated in the object you mentioned. Same for a return somevalue, anothervalue from a Lua function.

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