wonderful

A wonderful GUI library for OpenComputers

Features:

Multi-monitor setup support. Any setup will be supported.
Advanced event system. Allows to implement and override behavior of any element.
Layouts. Why calculate the position yourself if the computer can do it just as well, and even better?
Customization and extendability. To modify a component, just extend from another one. Inherit from the base class wonderful.element.Element if you want to implement it from scratch.
Buffered rendering. The library only issues GPU calls for the parts that changed since the previous update, and packs them together beforehand.
OOP. I mean, proper OOP. Multi-inheritance, getters and setters, and more — thanks to the lua-objects library.

Documentation

The manual pages and API reference are available on doc.fomalhaut.me.

Current state

The library consists of 4 parts, each packaged separately:

wonderful-common, common utilities used by other parts
wonderful-buffer, the render buffer
wonderful-core, the GUI core
wonderful-std, the provided-by-default collection of something (hopefully widgets).

As for now, only common and buffer got their 0.1.0 releases; other parts have yet to be released.

Visit the issue tracker for the list of tasks.

The project is certainly comatose.

Installation

Want to tinker with the library nonetheless? Here's how to install wonderful.

On your opencomputer, fetch the code (you may directly run git clone there, for example, or download the code manually).
Install hpm if you haven't already: pastebin run vf6upeAN. Despite it's no longer maintained, I still use it for installing.
Run the following commands:

# hpm install -ly ./common
# hpm install -ly ./buffer
# hpm install -ly ./core
# hpm install -ly ./components
# hpm install -ly .

Development and contributing

I use the GitHub issues to manage the work. I also have the GitHub project. The "To do" list there is ordered; things at the top should probably be done first. Though there are also things worth doing anytime, and the documentation is a notable example.

Contributing code to the library can be difficult, as most things are basically undocumented, only having a LuaDoc. You need to understand how the most of the codebase works by reading the source code, although there are a few examples to help you out. If you want to ask questions about the library, feel free to reach out to me:

On the IRC: fingercomp at irc.esper.net
On the OpenComputers forums
By opening an issue here and stating the question

I highly appreciate documentation contributions. Creating a new manual page, updating the pages that already exist, or fixing a simple typo — it doesn't really matter how small or big a contribution is.

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