Passing elements of array as individual arguments

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#1

Hey guys, so I have this module script which has an array of controls to bind

local config = {}

config.keyboardControls = {
	Enum.KeyCode.One,
	Enum.KeyCode.Two,
	Enum.KeyCode.Three,
	Enum.KeyCode.Four,
	Enum.KeyCode.Five
}

config.gamepadControls = {
	Enum.KeyCode.DPadLeft,
	Enum.KeyCode.DPadRight,
	Enum.KeyCode.DPadUp,
	Enum.KeyCode.DPadDown
}

return config

I’ve been trying to pass the all the Enum.KeyCodes to the :BindAction, method to be able to bind all of those KeyCodes to the same function.

-- Keyboard and Gamepad Listener
ContextActionService:BindAction("openSelection", showSelection, false,
	unpack(config.keyboardControls), unpack(config.gamepadControls)
)

My approach to this was trying to use unpack, however, it appears only the first element of the table is passed as an argument, and the rest of the elements in the table are ignored. I was wondering if anyone knows what the most efficient solution to fixing this problem would be?

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#2

I may be ignorant as to what you are trying to do, but couldn’t you use a loop, to loop through each element of the array and to the BindAction on each one?

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#3

I do not understand, can’t you just loop thru em’?

for i, v in config.keyboardControls do -- Keyboard controls because the gamepad controls array is shorter(?)
  ContextActionService:BindAction("openSelection", showSelection, false,
	v, config.gamepadControls[i] -- Will be nil on the 5th iteration
  )
end
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