ksml - Kerboscript GUI-code generator

This tool creates Kerboscript from XML files, crafted to represent GUI-Layouts.

An online version of this tool as available at github.io

Example XML

myinterface.ksml

<vbox>
<label style:font='"Roboto Monospace"' style:fontsize='20'>mylabel</label>
<hbox>
  <label id='myelement' style:font='"Roboto Monospace"' style:fontsize='20'>
    &lt;b&gt;mylabel2 rich text&lt;/b&gt;
  </label>
  <button onclick='{ print "button pressed". }'>mybutton</button>
</hbox>
</vbox>

Now you can run npm start ./myinterface.ksml and it's going to generate a second file called myinterface.ksml.ks containing the GUI-code.

Gotchas

If you want to set a labels font, you say: <label style:font='"Roboto Monospace"'>mytext</label>. Note that both single and doublequotes are used to represent a string value as attribute!

This way it is possible to add inline anonymous functions as well: <button onclick='{ print "button pressed". }'>mybutton</button>

If you want to use Rich Text, you need to HTML-Encode the text: <b>value2</b>

Adding the generated code into your project is easy:

Call the file from your Kerboscropt code and pass it a GUI to render to:

  local g is GUI(400).
  run "myinterface.ks"(g).
  g:SHOW().

Using ID:

IDs can be use to dynamically pick certain elements from your interface. First add an ID-Attribute to the element you want to use inside your own code: <label id='mylabel' >mylabel</label> Now you can pass a second argument when running the interfaces script:

  local g is GUI(400).
  local ids is LEX().
  run "interface.ksml.ks"(g, ids).
  g:SHOW().
  set ids["mylabel"]:TEXT to "My fancy text.".

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