[Mudlet] The GUI questions thread

Tahquil

I am trying and fumbling trying to build my own GUI and have a few questions. I thought I would make this thread so I can, and other people, ask questions regarding GUI creation in mudlet and get many different opinions.

Question 1)
I have read in the documentation that while labels can be coded to look more stylish that miniconsoles they don't handle large amounts of info coming in as well. Where is the line you draw when you decide between using a label or a miniconsole?

Question 2)
Can you align text in a miniconsole? I.e. Topcentre/topright/centre right? 

Klendathu

1. Any more than a line or two, miniconcole
2. Yes - myLabel:echo(text,colour,format) - myLabel:echo("blah",cb18) would display blah in 18 point centre aligned bold text.

Tahquil

@Klendathu : Those say label though....

Klendathu

Excellent, you passed the test. Here's your reward... http://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Manual:Geyser

There doesn't appear to be any way to align text in a miniconsole, highlighting where a label would be better.

-shifty-

Tahquil

      

Mishgul

If you can get the miniconsole width (which should be easy since you set it) then making a couple of functions that align any echo'd text to the centre should be trivial in theory, but i am at work  right now so I cannot test this.

Tahquil

HOOOOOW would I go about pulling out the ship prompt?

Tharvis

for cryptic : 

^= S(.*)@h(.*),H(.*),CE(.*)%,W<-(.*)@(.*)kts,C/S->(.*)@(\d+),(.*)$    

Perl regex ofc

windSpeed = matches[7]
windDirection = matches[6]
shipSpeed = matches[9]
showShipSpeed()
shipDirection = matches[8]
if matches[3] == "++"
 	then shipSailHealth = 100
		else shipSailHealth = tonumber(matches[3])
end
if matches[4] == "++"
 	then shipHullHealth = 100
		else shipHullHealth = tonumber(matches[4])
end
shiphpbar:setValue(shipHullHealth, 100, "<b>Hull: ".. shipHullHealth .." / " .. "100" .. "</b>")
shipshpbar:setValue(shipSailHealth, 100, "<b>Sails: ".. shipSailHealth .." / " .. "100" .. "</b>")
shipBalbar:setValue(shipCrewBalance, 1)
shipSails:setValue(sailsOpen, 1, "<b><center>Sail</b></center>")
shipRow:setValue(rowersOpen, 1, "<b><center>Row</b></center>")
shipStearingCode()
deleteLine()

from @Zulah his ship system, so you'll have to tinker with it a bit
( http://forums.achaea.com/discussion/1705/updated-free-sea-plugin ) <- for the system