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Lua and Gui's


Einlander

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Gui's at the moment seem to be all the rage on the Leadwerks forum. We have the recent release of the noesisGUI, Patrik's showing of his gui's progress, and tjheldna's release of tjui and probaly many others. I also decided to try my hand at gui creation.

 

Coming from a BASIC background (started with qb 1.0), I don't have the proper skills to use a third party gui without malloc errors or segfaulting everything. That, and my game is a lua game. Taking inspiration from Tjhldna's gui I started off making something similar in pure lua.

 

After 2 days I managed to create a window manager and the windows themselves.

 

It's a good start but a lot of things still need to be worked out.

 

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!!ANIMATED, CLICK TO VIEW!!

 

 

Frontfacing code to make the demo:

function Script:Start()
-- Load Module
lwgui = require "/scripts/lwgui"

--Create Window Manger
self.windowmanager = lwgui.WindowManager()

--Create Windows
self.window1 = lwgui.Window(200,200,300,300,windowcallback) -- window1 callback
self.window2 = lwgui.Window(280,200,300,300)
self.window3 = lwgui.Window(480,180,300,300)

-- make the window see through
--self.window.SetTransparancy(100)
self.window2.SetTransparancy(100)
--self.window3.SetTransparancy(100)

--self.window.SetCallback(windowcallback) -- you can manually set a callback

self.window1.SetTitle("Einlanders' Leadwerks Gui Window")
self.window2.SetTitle("Einlanders' Leadwerks Gui WIndow 2")
self.window3.SetTitle("Einlanders' Leadwerks Gui WIndow 2")

-- set window color
self.window2.SetWindowBodyColor({0,0,255})
self.window3.SetWindowBodyColor({0,30,0})

--Add Window To Window Manager
self.windowmanager:AddWindow(self.window2)-- type checked 
self.windowmanager:AddWindow(self.window1)-- type checked 
self.windowmanager:AddWindow(self.window3)-- type checked 

--self.window.testwm()

end

function Script:UpdateWorld()
-- update title
self.window1.SetTitle(self.window1.GetX()..":"..self.window1.GetY().." Einlanders' Leadwerks Gui Window:"..self.window1.GetDepth())
self.window2.SetTitle(self.window2.GetX()..":"..self.window2.GetY().." Einlanders' Leadwerks Gui WIndow 2:"..self.window2.GetDepth())
self.window3.SetTitle(self.window3.GetX()..":"..self.window3.GetY().." Einlanders' Leadwerks Gui WIndow 2:"..self.window3.GetDepth())
local window = Window:GetCurrent()
-- remove a window
if window:KeyHit(Key.Q) then
self.windowmanager:RemoveWindow(self.window1)-- type checked 
self.window1 = nil
collectgarbage()
end
end
--This function will be called after the world is rendered, before the screen is refreshed.
--Use this to perform any 2D drawing you want the entity to display.
function Script:PostRender(context)
--process all logic inside the windows and window manager
self.windowmanager.Process()
-- Render all windows
self.windowmanager.Render()
end
function windowcallback(e) -- window 1 callback
System:Print(e[1])
end

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Looks like a good start! Eventually I will have to tackle GUIs as well and I only have Lua (so I can't use tjheldnas :( ). I will keep track of your progress (if you post updates on this) and learn from your learning!

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I would think the following should be in UpdateWorld() instead of PostRender():

 

self.windowmanager.Process()

 

 

When storing the callback you might want to consider allowing for script level functions instead of global functions. In your example windowcallback() is global to the entire game which means if you use a GUI in another script and have the same function you are overwriting the function based on which script was read in first.

 

The way to do this is to first allow your SetCallback() to accept 2 parameters. The first one would be the script object and the second the script function. So usage would look like: SetCallback(self, windowcallback).

 

Then we would define our callback inside these entity scripts like:

 

function Script:windowcallback()

end

 

In your library just store the obj and function in variables. When it's time to call you can call it like:

 

func(obj)

 

This calls the script function and passes the script object. In Lua this is what gives you the 'self' variable (it's hidden and done behind the scenes).

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Go to http://www.lua.org/cgi-bin/demo and copy paste the below in and you'll see that it calls the Script level function as the callback.

 

-- this table will store our callback script object and script function
callback = {}
callback.obj = nil
callback.func = nil

-- function like yours to set callback
function SetCallback(obj, func)
  callback.obj = obj
  callback.func = func
end

-- simulate how the scripts work
Script = {}

function Script:Create()
  local obj = {}

  -- this copies the object Script function to this local table
  local k,v
  for k,v in pairs(Script) do
     obj[k] = v
  end

  return obj
end

function Script:Start()
  SetCallback(self, self.MyCallback)
end

-- user defined script level function
function Script:MyCallback()
  print("Inside MyCallback")
end

-- create an instance of this script and call it's Start(). LE does this behind the scene for us but this is just to show
testScript = Script:Create()
testScript:Start()


-- this is how you would call the callback from your library.
callback.func(callback.obj)

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Not sure what you are asking. You would put this callback table inside your GUI library and expose the SetCallback() function from your GUI library as well for us to set what script function we want to assign as the callback. Then when you need to call it from your GUI library you would do that last line of code. That's all you'd really need to do. All the other stuff in there was just an example to show that.

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