python Bartending

[froboi]

OK so heres the problem I'm facing. I am trying to make a program that takes a lit of ingredients that you enter into a field and it processes them and spits back out a list of drinks you can make. I can't seem to figure out how to make the search function work. If anyone has any ideas on how to make this work please! Please! dont hold them back. Also, I am somewhat new to python so if you could give a general breakdown of the script it would save me alot of time.

[bogdan.galiceanu]

Hi and welcome to the Forum.

From what I understand you want to have a list of ingredients with the ability to search for specific ones in the list. If so, you could use a selection list:

import appuifw, e32

#Define the exit function and assign it to the right softkey
def quit():app_lock.signal()
appuifw.app.exit_key_handler=quit

#First create the sequence of ingredients (must be unicode)
a=[u"Alcohol",u"Water",u"Vodka",u"Lemon juice"]

#Now display the list and store the index of the selected option in a variable (i, for example)
i=appuifw.selection_list(a, search_field=1)

#You can store the ingredient in a new list, for processing and generating the drink name
b=[]
b.append(a[i])

app_lock=e32.Ao_lock()
app_lock.wait()

The example above is good for choosing one ingredient

Hope that helps