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