programatically select rows

[dnalor]

First of all, thanks for releasing this - very useful.

I'd like to programatically

• set the highlighted row
• selected / unselected rows
  without rebuilding the table.

I tried:

for _, r := range m.archTable.SelectedRows() {
	r.Selected( false)
}

which doesn't work (presumably b/c the method returns values and not references?)

Am I missing something, or is this not possible?

[Evertras]

The rows returned by SelectedRows are just copies, so changing anything will not reflect back into the table. It's a little misleading now that I'm double checking the docs. Let me play with creating an example and potentially making some updates as well to make this easier/clearer.

[dnalor]

Thanks for the reply.
I suspected as much, but I haven't found public methods to set certain options for an existing table (as opposed to doing so at creation time).
Examples:
WithCurrentPage
Selected

I think methods like e.g.
SetCurrentPage
SetSelected
SetHighlightedRowIndex
would be quite useful, as it seems that currently one would have to rebuild the whole table every time one wants to change those options.

(I've seen 5ce8e35 , which certainly helps, but would still mean rebuilding the table)

[dnalor]

(sorry, should have read your newest comment first before commenting, which addresses what I've written)

[Evertras]

To clarify an important point, modifying an existing table is forbidden as Bubble Tea relies on all models being immutable. Everything must be copied when a modification is made, otherwise things get weird for Bubble Tea if its assumptions are violated. We can make that copy relatively efficient, but having exported functions that modify the underlying table's data is a no-go.

[dnalor]

Interesting, I wasn't aware of that.
Then it may not be worth your effort just for some corner cases.

[Evertras]

Gotcha... if there's something that's really a pain to do I'm always happy to figure out if there's some nice helper function we could add, like WithAllRowsDeselected. Feel free to open an issue if you have any ideas for more. 🤘