Chili:Hiding The Default GUI

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Hiding the default GUI

Many games, and all games using Chili, choose to remove Springs basic 'default' GUI. This can be done with the following widget - you may need to edit it slightly to match your game and your widget/addon handler.

<syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> function widget:GetInfo()

 return {
   name      = "Hides the default interface",
   desc      = "",
   author    = "gajop, Bluestone",
   date      = "",
   license   = "GPL-v2",
   layer     = math.huge;
   enabled   = true,
   
   hidden    = true; -- don't show in the widget selector
   api       = true; -- load before all others?
 }

end

function widget:Initialize()

 RegisterGlobal("LayoutButtons", DummyLayoutHandler)

 Spring.SendCommands("Console 0")
 Spring.SendCommands("ResBar 0")
 Spring.SendCommands("ToolTip 0")
 Spring.SendCommands("Clock 0")
 Spring.SendCommands("Info 0")
 Spring.SendCommands("Fps 0")

 gl.SlaveMiniMap(true)
 gl.ConfigMiniMap(-1,-1,-1,-1)

end

local function DummyLayoutHandler(xIcons, yIcons, cmdCount, commands)

 handler.commands   = commands
 handler.commands.n = cmdCount
 handler:CommandsChanged()
 return "", xIcons, yIcons, {}, {}, {}, {}, {}, {}, {}, {}

end

function widget:GameSetup()

 -- sets status instantly to ready & hides the pre-game UI
 -- you might want/need to change this part & integrate it into your spawning gadget!
 return true, true 

end

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