LUA Musings

Thank you!!

You're welcome Please do signal any bugs or inconsistencies. I feel that it's essential that we have something like this in LE.

Keep up the good work...I agree leadwerks needs a system for this...

That's amusing, I've been working on something just like this myself! XD

That's amusing, I've been working on something just like this myself! XD

I think we all have at some point made a gfx library for Leadwerks.

I think we all have at some point made a gfx library for Leadwerks.

 

Cool If anyone has something that is less basic and more consistent than this, it would be great to see it. A community project with contributors and maintainers would be even greater

Einlander: I was planning to release it once it was remotely ready though

 

Lunarovich: Mine is fairly basic to be honest, I was aiming to allow theme files (a master lua table with settings) to configure the gui's looks(size of borders, colors, etc). Currently it has a button and a some-what messed up label( forgot to update some older code with newer algorithms) I would have no issue uploading the code somewhere later on if you like, though please bear in mind that I'm still somewhat new to leadwerks and definitely GUI coding

Einlander: I was planning to release it once it was remotely ready though

 

Lunarovich: Mine is fairly basic to be honest, I was aiming to allow theme files (a master lua table with settings) to configure the gui's looks(size of borders, colors, etc). Currently it has a button and a some-what messed up label( forgot to update some older code with newer algorithms) I would have no issue uploading the code somewhere later on if you like, though please bear in mind that I'm still somewhat new to leadwerks and definitely GUI coding

 

Mine was a complete window manager and all its objects. I put it on hold after the setscale command didn't work correctly

Mine was a complete window manager and all its objects. I put it on hold after the setscale command didn't work correctly

 

On the other hand, I don't have an ambition to make a window manager. I just want to implement a barebones solid library that gives us graphical entities, properties and methods out of the box. At this point, I don't even want to implement such things as buttons, menus and similar. For example, I want to have a sprite with a method SetPivot. A nice addition would be to have a nesting hierarchy of entities, so that transformations of a parent sprite get automatically applied to children sprites.

 

Btw, @Einlander, do you plan to release your library? Another question: do you know how one goes to implement pivot?

I've just impelemnted SetPivot via shaders. It was not possible to do it via SetTranslation, since it translates canvas, so to say, and not an entity.

 

Anyway, you can now have entities rotating about an arbitrary pivot. See Main.lua for examples.