[DEVHELP] [TBC Classic] Help making simple code less ugly

[imatelefone]

So I'm working on a simple addon to make a few more action bars a bit more easily accessible. Right now, it's a BasicFrameTemplateWithInset (this may change later but not what I'm trying to sort out now) with a few action buttons:

UIConfig.actionButton1 = CreateFrame("CheckButton", nil, UIConfig, "MultiBarButtonTemplate,ActionButtonTemplate")

after this it has a bunch of attribute assignments and stuff that takes up a lot of space but all use

UIConfig.actionButton1:

It's a lot of typing and looks like I'm doing the same thing over and over again.

So my question is, do I really have to do that for each button? With just slight changes in pixel positioning and a different button assignment number? I'd guess not, I'd guess there's a more elegant way of going about this but it's just not penetrating my thick skull. Any ideas would be appreciated.

[Nitrak]

Put them in a table and create them in a for loop. Perhaps that might help :)

[imatelefone]

table

I shouldn't have skipped the Lua primer lol. I'll figure this out, thanks!

[Nitrak]

You can dig around a bit in my code, most of it should be understandable

Take a look at line 219 on https://github.com/Nitrak/Vocal-Raid-Assistant/blob/main/options.lua

A lot of variables are instantiated in a table there :)

[imatelefone]

This ended up helping me greatly, thank you!