form.getFieldSlots

since 1.1.0

Return a table of coordinates for fields in a line.

local rects = form.getFieldSlots(line, fields)

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
line	FormLine	yes	the line where the field should be added
fields	nil or table	yes	table of specs for each field in the line (either a string, or a width). The available space will be splitted into all cells where specs have a zero-width

Returns

rects (table of Rect): the coordinates

Examples

From the official Ethos documentation

form.getFieldSlots(line, nil)
form.getFieldSlots(line, {100, 0, "slot3"})

Used in

• task
• tool-form
• widget-gauge

Real-world usage

Called 79 times across 5 open-source Ethos Lua projects. A few short excerpts:

Example 1Example 2Example 3

local slots = form.getFieldSlots(line, fieldLabels)

lua/frsky/RB25_S/stab/stab.lua:362

local slots = form.getFieldSlots(line, {0, SLOT_HINT, SLOT_HINT, SLOT_HINT, SLOT_HINT})

src/rfsuite/app/header.lua:255

local line = form.addLine("")
local slot = form.getFieldSlots(line, {0})[1]

src/wfsuite/app/pages/alignment.lua:60