Chili:Tutorial Command and Build Commands

Commands and Build bar

Preparation

We are stepping it up a notch. We can all agree that the stock GUI for commands and building isn't really all that great. Good thing is we can improve on this. Following is not a perfect sollution since it doesn't handle pagination, but it will get you a long way getting you started for advanced stuff. For this tutorial you will only need one lua script but it will have quite a bit of content.

 
- LuaUI\widgets\gui_chili_commandwindow.lua

File header

You open up with the regular info and imports that you are going to use thru the script.

function widget:GetInfo()
	return {
		name		= "command list window",
		desc		= "ChiliUi window that contains all the commands a unit has",
		author		= "Sunspot",
		date		= "2011-06-15",
		license     = "GNU GPL v2",
		layer		= math.huge,
		enabled   	= true,
		handler		= true,
	}
end
-- INCLUDES
VFS.Include("LuaRules/Gadgets/Includes/utilities.lua")

-- CONSTANTS
local MAXBUTTONSONROW = 4
local COMMANDSTOEXCLUDE = {"TimeWait","DeathWait","SquadWait","GatherWait","Load units"}
local Chili
local Button
local Window
local Image
local Control

-- MEMBERS
local x
local y
local commandWindow
local stateCommandWindow
local buildCommandWindow
local updateRequired = true

-- CONTROLS
local spGetActiveCommand 	= Spring.GetActiveCommand
local spGetActiveCmdDesc 	= Spring.GetActiveCmdDesc
local spGetSelectedUnits    = Spring.GetSelectedUnits
local spSendCommands        = Spring.SendCommands

You'll notice a lot of variables and controls. They will all get a place during the further script design and explained in detail.