I am hoping to eventually implement some nice buttons and popups to cpsAPI, but i am lacking in the knowledge to do so.. I can use a CreateButton,DrawButton,WaitFor click etc but some small details partaining to button expanding etc are causing problems….
Instead ill look around ofra existing API to use for now, but if it becomes too much hassle ill make the buttons and menus that use them hardcoded in AngelTV as i done with the previewmodes one button, but an API to make adding and maintaining a button would be of godly help… Also i can always turn to using my original envisioned idea, where the search list is a dupe of filter scroll but you can only scroll through a filtered list… The problem is then you cant exactly see whats at hand and quick jump unless it was "type in frame number to jump to" and im trying my best to avoid typing commands too much…
long explanation while half tired….
:mellow:/>
hmmm, actually i was actually going to turn to your API :P/>
BUT can you add a wait for click and then check if mouse_click XY is within a buttons XY box ?
and here is how id pull it off :
first we save all the buttons data such as name(optional) and X1 Y1 and X2 Y2. Since we can easily draw any box using those four coords. Its also possible to use the same draw function to check if a given coord is within that box, :
first the original DrawButton function i allways use (except this one is very customisable.)
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function DrawButton(x1,y1,x2,y2,sym,color1,color2,text,named)
if x1 == nil or 0 then x1 = 1 end
if x2 == nil or 0 then x2 = 6 end
if y1 == nil or 0 then y1 = 1 end
if y2 == nil or 0 then y2 = 6 end
if sym == nil or 0 then sym = "#" end
if color1 == nil then color1 = 0 end
if color2 == nil then color2 = 0 end
if text == nil then text = "NONE" end
if named == nil then print("Error : string expected, got " .. type(named)) print("Press any key to continue") os.pullEvent("key") end
for i = x1,y2 do
term.setTextColor(colorGet(color1))
term.setCursorPos(i,y1)
print(sym)
term.setCursorPos(i,y2)
print(sym)
end
term.setTextColor(colors.white)
for i = y1,y2 do
term.setTextColor(colorGet(color1))
term.setCursorPos(x1,i)
print(sym)
term.setCursorPos(x2,i)
print(sym)
end
term.setTextColor(colorGet(color2))
term.setCursorPos(x1+1,y1+1)
print(text)
term.setTextColor(colors.white)
inputin = named .. "*" .. x1 .. "*" .. y1 .. "*" .. x2 .. "*" .. y2 .. "*" .. text
return table.insert(Buttons,inputin)
end
So we saved all the needed data as a index in the table Buttons.
then listen for a mouse_click, grab its X and Y then :
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function BreakBData(ButtonName)
local Temp = ButtonName
local startf = 1
local endf = 1
for i = 1,table.maxn[Buttons] do
if Buttons[i] == Temp then
---the function that breaks down the string and grabs the seperate data
--afterwards : Do note that BX1 BY1 BX2 BY2 and BButtonName etc are all the infomation we got from above function
for i = BY1,BY2 do
if MouseY == i then
for i = BX1,BX2 do
if MouseX == i then
clickedButton == BButtonName
end
end
end
end
end
end
end
then we just fetch what clicked button was and respond accordingly.. this can be run in a While Loop along with a ButtonRender function to infinitely call functions on a button click.
(DO note that i typed out the second spoiler as i was typing this…)'
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Oh i forgot, to allow "popups" and the like we can just add a g variable to all the X2 and Y2 variables in the first draw function, the g is the number to add-on should it expand, thus to make it grow from 6;6 to 9;9 we just set g to 1,render,2,render,3,render and that will end up growing it (it was infact my first function i attempted to use in Advanced computers so its one of my favourite :P/>)
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NON-related to above issue update :
Ill add a check box of sorts to allow you to toggle the output preview to monitor, just thought it was needed
