UI

Supported platforms:
Available since: Gideros 2023.1

  In order to use Gideros UI Library, you have to link or include the two following folders to your project:
  * Library/ui
  * Library/luashaders
  The folders are available in your Gideros installation folder (UI Library depends on luashaders)

Description

A UI Library for Gideros made of a plethora of widgets.

UI.Builder allows for building complex UI layouts.

Examples

In init.lua

UI=UI or {}

local fontfilebold = "fonts/OpenSans-Bold.ttf"

UI.Default = {
	TTF=fontfilebold,
}

In your game

--UI.Style:setDefault(UI.Theme.PointCore_Base)
--UI.Style:setDefault(UI.Theme.PointCore_Red)
UI.Style:setDefault(UI.Theme.PointCore_Pink)

-- a Button
local button=UI.Button.new()
button:setDimensions(64, 48)
button:setPosition(50,50)
button:setText("Button")

function button:onWidgetAction()
	print("Hello Gideros UI")
end

stage:addChild(button)

Sliders

--Sliders give value from 0 to 1
local sliderA=UI.Slider.new()
sliderA:setDimensions(200,50)
sliderA:setPosition(250,50)
sliderA.name="Slider A"

local sliderB=UI.Slider.new()
sliderB:setDimensions(200,50)
sliderB:setPosition(250,150)
--This slider center is in the middle of the range
sliderB:setCenter(.5)
--Initial value is .6
sliderB:setKnobPosition(.6)
--Discrete steps of .1
sliderB:setResolution(.1)
sliderB.name="Slider B"

stage:addChild(sliderA)
stage:addChild(sliderB)

--Here we put the WidgetAction listener on stage. 
--It will be propagated from each button up to stage through the sprite tree
--First parameter of event listeners are always the source widget of the event
function stage:onWidgetChange(w,v)
	print(w.name.." value is "..v)
end

Widgets

UI.Accordion creates a UI accordion UI.Animation creates UI animations UI.Bar creates a Bar widget UI.Behavior manages widget behavior UI.Border creates a Border widget UI.BreadCrumbs creates a BreadCrumbs widget UI.Builder builds layout interfaces UI.Button creates Button widgets UI.Calendar creates Calendar widgets UI.Checkbox creates Checkbox widgets UI.Combobox creates Combobox widgets UI.ImageText creates an ImageText widget UI.Keyboard creates a Keyboard widget UI.Label creates a Label widget UI.Panel creates a Panel widget UI.Progress creates Progress widgets

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