How to add items to a dropdown from a script?

[Vantha]

I have a dropdown in an XML for a GUI page like this:

<object name="dropdown" type="dropdown"/>

I know I can add items like this:

<item>name of the first item</item>
<item>name of the second item</item>

The problem is that I want to have more than ten items in the dropdown, and preferably add them from a JavaScript script instead of listing all of them in the XML. How can I do that?

I found list functions here: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Exposed_GUI_Functions#List_functions. But I'm not sure how to use them. And from a quick search not a single instance of 'addItem' or 'pushItem' was found in 0ad's code.

[Stan`]

You can't add dynamic GUI objects. You have to know how many you'll display, or at least have more on the page. I think colors have more than ten items.

[vladislavbelov]

3 hours ago, Vantha said:

The problem is that I want to have more than ten items in the dropdown, and preferably add them from a JavaScript script instead of listing all of them in the XML. How can I do that?

If you just want dropdown values then you might take a look at binaries/data/mods/public/gui/options/. We add dropdown values dynamically via JS for options.

30 minutes ago, Stan&#x60; said:

You can't add dynamic GUI objects.

If I'm not mistaken the question is about many values not many dropdowns.

[Vantha]

1 hour ago, vladislavbelov said:

If you just want dropdown values then you might take a look at binaries/data/mods/public/gui/options/. We add dropdown values dynamically via JS for options.

Thanks. I found there what I've been searching for.

[Vantha]

1 hour ago, vladislavbelov said:

If I'm not mistaken the question is about many values not many dropdowns

Yes, that's what I was asking. I probably should have been more precise.