can someone pleae POst an example in which a GUI actually WORKS?

King Nothing · Oct 23rd 2016

I read and pulled apart Red's Guestbook Plugin and of course it didn't show up in the game.

all I Want is to place a simple Box on the screen so the player can enter info..

any help would be appreciated.

red51 · Oct 23rd 2016

Please avoid writing whole words in captial letters in the headline, unless it makes sense (e.g. GUI).

To create a build a gui, simply create a new gui element, and once a player connects to the server (e.g. in the PlayerConnectEvent or PlayerSpawnEvent), add the element to the players gui by calling player.addGuiElement(element)

Basic example which creates a panel and a label:

Java

import net.risingworld.api.Plugin;
import net.risingworld.api.events.EventMethod;
import net.risingworld.api.events.Listener;
import net.risingworld.api.events.player.PlayerConnectEvent;
import net.risingworld.api.gui.GuiLabel;
import net.risingworld.api.gui.GuiPanel;
import net.risingworld.api.gui.PivotPosition;
import net.risingworld.api.objects.Player;


public class GuiExample extends Plugin implements Listener{


    @Override
    public void onEnable(){
        registerEventListener(this);
    }


    @Override
    public void onDisable(){
        //...
    }

    @EventMethod
    public void onPlayerConnect(PlayerConnectEvent event){
        //Get the player object (the player who connects)
        Player p = event.getPlayer();

        //Create a panel
        GuiPanel panel = new GuiPanel(0.5f, 0.25f, true, 400, 50, false);
        panel.setPivot(PivotPosition.Center);  //centered element
        panel.setColor(0x000000BB);  //rgba int color, transparent black

        //Create a centered label and add it to the panel as child
        GuiLabel label = new GuiLabel("Hello World", 0.5f, 0.5f, true);
        label.setPivot(PivotPosition.Center);
        panel.addChild(label);

        //Add gui elements to player screen
        p.addGuiElement(panel);
        p.addGuiElement(label);
    }
}

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King Nothing · Oct 23rd 2016

thanks and sorry for the caps, I was just getting frustrated because my database won't work so now I'm working on a different Project and this GUI Thing is getting on my nerves

and when I think of RGBA I think of
this: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.3)

I don't know where you are coming up with (Oox000000BB) it looks like an extended version of the hexadecimal colors.

yahgiggle · Oct 23rd 2016

Quote from Captian_Cornball

thanks and sorry for the caps, I was just getting frustrated because my database won't work so now I'm working on a different Project and this GUI Thing is getting on my nerves

and when I think of RGBA I think of
this: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.3)

I don't know where you are coming up with (Oox000000BB) it looks like an extended version of the hexadecimal colors.

heres a color chart that may help http://www.nthelp.com/colorcodes.htm

red51 · Oct 23rd 2016

The 0xRRGGBBAA is a hexadecimal color indeed (RR is the red color part, GG the green color, BB the blue color and AA the alpha part). Alternatively you can use the guiElement.setColor(r, g, b, a) method, there you can provide separate red, green, blue and alpha values (however, the range is between 0.0 and 1.0 in this case, instead of 0 and 255 [in other words, 255 == 1.0, 128 == 0.5 etc]). Example:

Java

GuiPanel panel = new GuiPanel();


//Sets a full red color (i.e. red == 255), half transparent
panel.setColor(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.5f);

King Nothing · Oct 23rd 2016

Quote from yahgiggle

heres a color chart that may help http://www.nthelp.com/colorcodes.htm

thank you. i've been googling the color codes with NO luck.

yahgiggle · Oct 23rd 2016

Quote from Captian_Cornball

thank you. i've been googling the color codes with NO luck.

yeah i understand if you google (Oox000000BB) you will get an windows blue screen error site lol oO

King Nothing · Oct 23rd 2016

I'm assuming this is Normal when you add a text Field? i scaled it down and i get a big white screen

Code

GuiPanel panel = new GuiPanel(0.5f, 0.25f, true, 400, 50, false);


        panel.setPivot(PivotPosition.Center);  //centered element


        panel.setColor(0x000000BB);  //rgba int color, transparent black
        //Get the player object (the player who connects)
GuiTextField label = new GuiTextField(0.5f, 0.25f, false, 0.5f, 0.5f,false);
label.setEditable(true);
label.setText("Default");
label.setClickable(true);
label.setBackgroundPreset(0);
panel.setColor(0x000000BB);
        label.setPivot(PivotPosition.Center);


        panel.addChild(label);
        p.addGuiElement(panel);


        p.addGuiElement(label);
    }

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yahgiggle · Oct 24th 2016

Code

GuiLabel label = new GuiLabel(0.9f, 0.05f, true);	
	label.setText("text goes here");
	label.setPivot(PivotPosition.BottomRight);	
	label.setFont(Font.DefaultMono_Bold);	
	label.setFontSize(16); 
        player.addGuiElement(label);    	
	Timer testTimer = new Timer(0f, 5f, 0, () -> {
        label.setVisible(false);
	});
	testTimer.start();

here my code with a timer set to 5sec this works fine

yahgiggle · Oct 24th 2016

Code

GuiPanel panel = new GuiPanel(0.5f, 0.25f, true, 400, 50, false);
        panel.setPivot(PivotPosition.Center);  //centered element
        panel.setColor(0x000000BB);  //rgba int color, transparent black
        //Get the player object (the player who connects)
        GuiTextField label3 = new GuiTextField(0.5f, 0.25f, false, 0.5f, 0.5f,false);
        label3.setEditable(true);
        label3.setText("Default");
        label3.setClickable(true);
        label3.setBackgroundPreset(0);
        panel.setColor(0x000000BB);
        label3.setPivot(PivotPosition.Center);
        panel.addChild(label);
        player.addGuiElement(panel);
        player.addGuiElement(label);

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This works fine did you import the stuff needed for it to work oO

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