Chili

Chili UI

ChiliUi is a framework still in development by author JK. It's a very flexible class based framework, with it's structure derived from Delphi. It has most of the basic components you expect a framework like for example Swing in jawa must have. It might feel a bit daunting at first to get started but with a little reverse engineering and this tutorial page you'll get a long way !

Getting Chili

Chili UI framework git hub

Download it , and put the extracted files in LuaUi/widgets. It should run out of the box, but user experiences have been conflicted on that. If you are in trouble getting Chili to run, I advice to login to the lobby and join /j moddev. People there will help you figure it out. I could write something here, but by the time it's written , someone else probably has another problem installing it !

Chili Component Hiearchy

object
|_font
|_screen
|_control
 |_button
   |_image
 |_checkbox
 |_colorbars
 |_label
 |_layoutpanel
   |_imagelistview
   |_grid
   |_stackpanel
   |_treeview
 |_panel
 |_progressbar
 |_scrollpanel
 |_textbox
 |_trackbar
 |_treeview
  |_treeviewnode
 |_window

Hello World

As in every first baby steps in a framework we are going to get hello world to work. First we are going to need to make a script file in the widgets directory. It's usually a good idea to keep the chili implemented files seperate from the other script files in naming convention.

Create a file gui_chili_helloworld.lua and copy following basic structure.

-- INCLUDES
-- CONSTANTS
-- SYNCED CONTROLS
-- CHILI CONTROLS
-- MEMBERS
-- SCRIPT FUNCTIONS
-- WIDGET CODE

As in every widget code you will need the basic info part telling about the widget. Who made it what it serves for and who the author is etc... Next you will also need the code for initializing the widget. For this example, we are going to need a few Chili controls. We have need for the Chili, Window and Label control. That makes the script look like this now.

-- INCLUDES
-- CONSTANTS
-- SYNCED CONTROLS
-- CHILI CONTROLS
local Chili      
local Window     
local Label

-- MEMBERS
-- SCRIPT FUNCTIONS
-- WIDGET CODE
function widget:GetInfo()
	return {
		name		= "helloworld",
		desc		= "hello world tutorial",
		author		= "Sunspot",
		date		= "2011-06-19",
		license     = "GNU GPL v2",
		layer		= 1,
		enabled   	= true
	}
end

function widget:Initialize()	
	if (not WG.Chili) then
		widgetHandler:RemoveWidget()
		return
	end
	
	Chili      = WG.Chili
	Window     = Chili.Window
	Label      = Chili.Label

	local screen0 = Chili.Screen0
end