Creating an Interface - help Tweet

[radiant]

Hello guys,

So i want to get a basic interface set up going in lua however since I'm a novice its a bit frustrating.
Within the Browse API there is the gui in models then in members there is the create,
which shows

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octane.gui.create

  component = octane.gui.create(PROPS_GUI_COMPONENT)

However since it would be to easy to just punch this in and get a interface happening i would think, you would have to use the
"showWindow" or the "props_gui_Window" but agian, i dont know the work arounds.

So i was wondering if someone can get a blank gui set up with height/width and a few strings and such with comments for each code so I can manipulate it myself.

Thanks

[roeland]

The gui creation works like this:

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animationWindow = octane.gui.create
{
    type     = octane.gui.componentType.WINDOW,
    text     = "my title bar text",
    children = { },      -- fill in children here
    width    = myWidth,  -- typically you should get the size via some GROUP component which does some automatic layout.
    height   = myHeight,
}

For a more complete example check our turntable and animation rendering scripts.

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Roeland