Problem with menu display.new text

Solar2D Lua Language
#1

okay, so I have made a menu system

I use a for loop to create the menu, but I can’t seem to access any of the items in the menu except the last one that was displayed. for example here’s a picture of the menu.

http://screencast.com/t/Gt3qeWX8

and in there i have this

[lua]

function objTap()

    local r = math.random(0,255)

    local g = math.random(0,255)

    local b = math.random(0,255)

    menuDisp:setFillColor(r/255, g/255, b/255)

    end

display.currentStage:addEventListener( “tap”, objTap )

[/lua]

and I made the menu by doing this

[lua]

    menuData = {“Option 1”, “Option 2”, “Option 3”, “Option 4”, “Option 5”}

for i = 1, #menuData do

    menuDisp = display.newText(menuData[i], _w/2, initY + (i-1) * 50, “Arial”, 45)

    end

[/lua]

any help would be appreciated.

I just want to be able to make each option do something different when it is tapped.

#2

your using same variable to create different display objects, that’s why you can only access the last one.

try:

local menuDisp={} for i = 1, #menuData do menuDisp[i] = display.newText(menuData[i], \_w/2, initY + (i-1) \* 50, "Arial", 45) end

to access the object you use: menuDisp[number]

#3

your using same variable to create different display objects, that’s why you can only access the last one.

try:

local menuDisp={} for i = 1, #menuData do menuDisp[i] = display.newText(menuData[i], \_w/2, initY + (i-1) \* 50, "Arial", 45) end

to access the object you use: menuDisp[number]