p455w0rd/AE2WirelessTerminalLibrary

A Library and API for integrating Infinite Range-capable Wireless Terminals with built-in Baubles support

AE2 Wireless Terminal Library

This is a library and API which allows for easy addition of Infinite range-capable Wireless Terminals for AE2 with built-in Baubles support.

The current API implementation is kinda bloated for a full implementation which includes Infinity Booster support, and I do plan to make things simpler in time.

Several things have to fall into place in order for your terminal to function properly and be compatible with WUT (Wireless Universal Terminal), so I'll break this up into sections labeled with their respective classes.

API

Gradle

The required libraries are available on Maven. Add the following to your build.gradle to have them and necessary dependencies automatically imported into your project:

repositories {
    maven {
        name = "covers Maven"
        url = "http://maven.covers1624.net"
    }
    maven {
        name = "Curse"
        url = "https://minecraft.curseforge.com/api/maven/"
    }
}

dependencies {
    deobfCompile "p455w0rd:p455w0rdslib:1.12.2-2.2.151"
    deobfCompile "appeng:appliedenergistics2:rv6-stable-6"
    deobfCompile "p455w0rd:AE2WTLib:1.12.2-1.0.29"
    deobfCompile "baubles:Baubles:1.12:1.5.2"
}

Item

• Your item should implement a custom interface which extends p455w0rd.ae2wtlib.api.ICustomWirelessTerminalItem

I recommend overriding ICustomWirelessTerminalItem#getStorageChannel using a default implementation inside this custom interface. Example

• ICustomWirelessTerminalItem also extends p455w0rd.ae2wtlib.api.client.IBaubleItem which adds the getRender()Lp455w0rd.ae2wtlib.api.client; method for custom rendering per slot

• Your item should also extend p455w0rd.ae2wtlib.api.item.ItemWT which is an abstract implementation of a general wireless terminal which adds support for internal rendering. Check this for an example of what should be overridden

Container

• Your container should extend p455w0rd.ae2wtlib.api.container.ContainerWT. In the constructor of your container, you will need to call ContainerWT#setTerminalHost. Example

• If you wish to make use of the Infinity Booster Card functionality, you should call the ContainerWT#<init>(Lnet.minecraft.entity.player.InventoryPlayer;Ljava.lang.Object;ISSII)V super constructor, where the final 3 parameters should be true (enable the booster slot), slotXPos, slotYPos.

• If your terminal will be making use of a ConfigManager (For controlling of GUI settings), you should also initialize that in the constructor. Example

• I have included a trash slot for convenience. When adding slots, call ContainerWT#addSlotToContainer(WTApi.instance().createTrashSlot(trashInventory, xPos, yPos));

GUI

• Your GUI should extend p455w0rd.ae2wtlib.api.client.gui.GuiWT to ensure Compatibility with the Wireless Universal Terminal

• If you wish to add Config buttons (buttons along the left side of the GUI), you should add them in GuiContainer#initGui via the GuiButtonPanel#addButton method. Current GuiButtonPanel instance can be gotten from GuiWT#getButtonPanel. In your initGui method, you must also call super.initGui() prior to adding buttons to the panel to initialize the main ButtonPanel. This is necessary for WUT support.

More info and changes will be coming. I know this is convoluted atm, but it's not complete yet. This should, however, be enough to get functional integration with the Wireless Universal Terminal and infinite range capabilities.