Navigating in the CCF tree with NetRemote LUA Library

[Barf]

I would like to navigating through the CCF "tree" to (globally) access a certain button, like (pseudocode)

button = GetPageGroupByName("mydevice"):GetPageByName("cool_page"):GetButtonByName("cool_button");
button:ButtonDown();

From the documentation, it appears to me as the current NR cannot do this. Is there any way? Or is it planned to augment the "API"?

[Ben S]

Correct, this is not currently supported.

This is not intended to be in NetRemote 2, because of the way the file is loaded and used.

What about taking the action of that button and putting it in lua, and having your existing button call that lua, also?

[Rob H]

Alternatively, if there aren't too many buttons of this kind you could put them on the device template (possibly on a hidden frame). Then the will always be available on the current page.

[Barf]

@Ben S:
Thanks for your answer.


What about taking the action of that button and putting it in lua, and having your existing button call that lua, also?

It is slightly awkward to define a subset of the IR-codes in IR-Actions in buttons, and the complementary subset in LUA code. (For me) more importantly, the GlobalCache bug prevents me from using a NR version that supports sending IR from LUA... :-(

@Rob H:
Nice workaround, unfortunately the pages are using different templates...

[Rob H]

You could have the same buttons on different templates of course, although that could be a bit of a pain if you modify just one of the templates. If they're all on a hidden frame though you could just copy and paste the frame after a modification.