Buttons?

im trying to make buttons for my phone program to launch apps all i have for it is a border around the screen
how would i add buttons to launch programs to it?

it depends if you want gui buttons, you could use many different ways of this but one way is to do ex: paintutils.drawFilledBox(1, 1, 10, 19, colors.gray)
and from there you want an mouse click detection and mouse click position

ex:

function click() --this function is for checking where and if clicked
    event, button, x, y = os.pullEvent("mouse_click") --this will call the event with the variables button, x, y
    if button == 1 then --if user click left click  (2 is for right click and 3 is for middle click)
        if x>=34 and x<= 45 and y == 3 then --check if x is more or equal to 34 and less or equal too 45 and Y is equal to 3 thats gonna be the area  where the button is
       shell.run("program to run here") --runs the program
       end
    end
end

The easiest way would be to use a button API such as touchpoint.

both these replies confuse me xD

well Danels makes sense but the 4th line

If you have anything specific you'd like more information on, I'd be happy to oblige. Here's a tutorial which may answer some of your questions.

Krul__Tepes, on 23 July 2017 - 06:24 PM said:

both these replies confuse me xD

well Danels makes sense but the 4th line

okay so the 4th line is to tell the program where it should accept the click/where the button area is
a good way to do this is too tell it first: if x is more or equal to example 34 and x is less or equal too 50 this will keep it in between 34 and 50 as x
picture: —–>34 between 50<—–

and lastly the Y it tells if the y is ex on line 3 then continue if all those is correct.
Note: you can do the same with Y as with x

I tried to do my best explaining just ask if you have any questions :)/>