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button = gui.createButton(  "button", function() print("Hello World!") end ) --#This creates a new button with a function that when triggered will print "Hello World!"

button:draw( 1,1 5, colors.green, colors.white ) -- #This draws the button at (1,1) with a width of 5. The first color is what the buttons color will be and the second color is the text color

button:toggle( colors.red,4) --#This toggles the buttons color to red for 4 seconds (If you leave the second argument as nil it will just toggle the button)

button:trigger() --#This triggers the buttons function

gui.detect( 1,3,true ) --#this checks an array of all the buttons you've defined and returns the name of the button. If you also set the third argument to true it will trigger that buttons action

bar = gui.createBar( "bar" ) --#This creates a new bar with the name

bar:draw( 5,8,30,colors.white,colors.green,true,colors.black,colors.white ) --#This draws the bar at (5,8) with a length of 30. The first color is the bar color, the second color is the progress color, the next argument is whether or not to display the percent, the third color is the text background color (for displaying the percent) and the fifth is the percent text color.

bar:update( percent ) --#Re-draws the bar with the new percent

input = gui.newTextBox(2,5,25,colors.green,colors.white) --#Makes a text box at (2,5) with a length of 25, a green background color and a white text color.

box = gui.createDialogueBox("GUI API",{"This is a dialogue box!","Do you like it?"},"yn") --#Creates a dialogue box with the title "GUI API" ,two body lines: "This is a dialogue box!" and "Do you like it?" and the box type is "yn"

box:draw( 20,5,5,colors.gray,colors.lightBlue,colors.white ) --#Makes a text box at (20,5) with a width of 5, a gray background color, white text color, and lightBlue title bar color.

Creates a bar with a namevvvvvvvv.

if self.name == buttonList[i][1] then
  table.remove(buttonList,buttonList[i])
  print("Deleting Button")
end

account.username, on 10 June 2014 - 11:23 PM said:

@newcat Based on the code you sent you are never calling the function "addItem" which that code is in. That might be your problem.

btnAdd = nil

function waitMouse(trigger)
  while true do
	local ev,mb,x,y = os.pullEvent("mouse_click")
	if (mb == 1 and gui.detect(x,y, false) ~= nil) then
	  return gui.detect(x,y, trigger)
	end
  end
end

function detect( x,y,trigger )
  for i = #buttonList,1,-1 do
	-all the stuff here
  end
end

• When typing a number, it always adds 1 to it. So if i press '1' it writes 2. If I press '9' it writes 10, if i press '0' it writes 11
• It's not possible to write capital letters yet

Hbomb_79, on 12 June 2014 - 02:09 AM said:

Ummm, sorry to be dumb, I've never done this before, but do I just use he pastebin link and put GUI. Infront and that it, or is there a special installation for these, is there a video explaining how to use this, I've never used buttons before, so the stuff in closed brackets are cuss right so I can create a button with name one and then draw button and type one in the square brackets?

pastebin get qz7KGw3R gui

os.loadAPI('/gui')

function Buttons:remove()
  for i = 1,#buttonList do
    if self.name == buttonList[i][1] then
	  table.remove(buttonList,i)
	  return true
    end
  end
end

function Buttons:remove()
  for i = 1,#buttonList-1 do
    if self.name == buttonList[i][1] then
	  table.remove(buttonList,i)
    end
  end
end

button = gui.createButotn( "Button", function() doSomething() end )
button:trigger()

function Boxs:draw( x,y,width,color,bcolor,tcolor )
  local ret = nil
  ... --all the other stuff here
end

os.loadAPI("/api")
function hi()
  print "Hi"
end
button = api.createButton ("button", fucntion() hi() end)
button:draw(1,1 5, colors.green, colors.white)
button:toggle(colors.red,4)
button:trigger()

account.username, on 19 June 2014 - 08:26 PM said:

@Hbomb_79

Change:
os.loadAPI("/api")

To:
os.loadAPI("api")

os.loadAPI("gui")
button = gui.createButton(  "button", function() print("Hello World!") end ) --#This creates a new button with a function that when triggered will print "Hello World!"

button:draw( 1,1, 5, colors.green, colors.white ) -- #This draws the button at (1,1) with a width of 5. The first color is what the buttons color will be and the second color is the text color

button:toggle( colors.red,4) --#This toggles the buttons color to red for 4 seconds (If you leave the second argument as nil it will just toggle the button)

button:trigger() --#This triggers the buttons function

gui.detect( 1,3,true ) --#this checks an array of all the buttons you've defined and returns the name of the button. If you also set the third argument to true it will trigger that buttons action

TommieIV, on 19 August 2014 - 10:54 PM said:

Would anybody do a tutorial video? I kinna need one! Or answer this: how do I use the button trigger function?

NikolaiM, on 13 August 2014 - 11:13 AM said:

Trying to make a power monitor, but every time i run the program the bar shows up all wierd looking(not working proberly)

http://pastebin.com/NiQJJdUU

TommieIV, on 19 August 2014 - 10:54 PM said:

Would anybody do a tutorial video? I kinna need one! Or answer this: how do I use the button trigger function?

Corky_McDuff, on 04 October 2014 - 09:25 AM said:

Hmm, I love this but I am way out of my depth here.
Would anyone be kind enough to assist I incorporating buttons into my teleport program please?
I would like a list of deck descriptions and a corresponding numbers next to it that once click teleports to that location.
This will be used for my Starship Enterprise Turbo Lifts and there are several decks in place, so will need small buttons to fit them all in.
My program is gbB2eRG1 if you are interested.
Thanks in advance…sorry for being so useless at this!

TheCaptainSly, on 11 October 2014 - 01:12 AM said:

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newcat, on 11 October 2014 - 10:44 PM said:

TheCaptainSly, on 11 October 2014 - 01:12 AM said:

–snip–

You wrote "y/n" as box type, but it actually needs to be "yn".
I didn't test it but the code you posted should not display anything and the return value will be nil.