Libraries.Interface.Forms.FormPanel Documentation

Inherits from: Libraries.Interface.Item, Libraries.Interface.Controls.Control, Libraries.Interface.Item2D, Libraries.Interface.Forms.FormContainerControl, Libraries.Language.Object

Actions Documentation

Activate(Libraries.Interface.Events.BehaviorEvent event)

Returns true if rendering the focus event.

Parameters

Activate()

This action returns a default behavior for this paricular control. Some controls do nothing by default, like a TextBox that responds to different kinds of input. Others, however, have default behaviors, like a Button or a MenuItem. If there is no default behavior, this action returns undefined.

Add(integer index, Libraries.Interface.Item2D newItem)

This action adds a different Item2D into this one, storing the added Item2D at a specific index in the internal array.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child
parentItem:Add(0, child)

Add(Libraries.Interface.Item2D newItem)

This action adds a different Item2D into this one. This makes a few things happen. 1. The added item will get this item as its parent. 2. The added item's x and y coordinates will become relative to this Item. 3. Most actions on this Item will also affect the added Item.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child
parentItem:Add(child)

AddBehavior(Libraries.Interface.Behaviors.Behavior behavior)

This action adds a new Behavior to this Item.

Parameters

AddButton(text name)

This action adds a button to the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the button.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button: The button object created when the AddButton(text) action is called.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button

class Main
    action Main
        Form form
        Page page = form:GetMainPage()
        Button button = page:AddButton("my button")

        form:Display()
    end
end

AddButton(text name, text fileName)

This action adds a button with an icon to the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the button.
  • text fileName: The text file path to where the image used as the button icon is located.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button: The button object created when the AddButton(text, text) action is called.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button

class Main
    action Main
        Form form
        Page page = form:GetMainPage()
        Button button = page:AddButton("my button", "Images/adoptUs.png")

        form:Display()
    end
end

AddCheckbox(text name)

This action adds a checkbox to the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the checkbox.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.Checkbox: The checkbox object that was added to the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Checkbox

class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        Checkbox field = homePage:AddCheckbox("my checkbox")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

AddControlActivationListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.ControlActivationListener listener)

This action removes an Item2D at a specifed index from the internal array.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child
parentItem:Add(0, child)
parentItem:Remove(0)

AddFocusListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.FocusListener listener)

This action adds a FocusListener to the Item. When the Item receives a FocusEvent due to either gaining or losing the focus, the listener will be notified.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Events.FocusListener
Item myItem
FocusListener listener
myItem:AddFocusListener(listener)

AddGestureListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.GestureListener listener)

This action adds a GestureListener to the Item. If the Item ever receives a GestureEvent, the listener will be notified.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Events.GestureListener
Item myItem
GestureListener listener
myItem:AddGestureListener(listener)

AddIcon(text name, text fileName)

This action adds an icon(image) to the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the icon.
  • text fileName: The text path to the image.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.Icon: The icon object that was added to the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page

class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        homePage:AddIcon("my icon", "Images/Blue Jay.png")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

AddLabel(text name)

This action adds a label to the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the label.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.Label: The label object that was added to the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page

class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        homePage:AddLabel("my label")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

AddLabel(text name, text value)

This action adds a label to the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the label.
  • text value: The text displayed in the label.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.Label: The label object that was added to the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page

class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        homePage:AddLabel("my label", "Name: ")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

AddLayoutProperties(Libraries.Interface.Layouts.LayoutProperties properties)

Returns true if rendering the mouse down event.

Parameters

AddList(text name)

This action adds a list to the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the list.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.List: The list object that was added to the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page

class Main
    action Main

        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        homePage:AddList("list")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

AddMouseListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.MouseListener listener)

This action adds a MouseListener to the Item. If the Item ever receives a MouseEvent due to a mouse click, the mouse listener will be notified.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Events.MouseListener
Item myItem
MouseListener listener
myItem:AddMouseListener(listener)

AddMouseMovementListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.MouseMovementListener listener)

This action adds a MouseMovementListener to the Item. If the Item ever receives a MouseEvent due to mouse movement, the listener will be notified.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Events.MouseMovementListener
Item myItem
MouseMovementListener listener
myItem:AddMouseMovementListener(listener)

AddMouseWheelListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.MouseWheelListener listener)

This action adds a MouseWheelListener to the Item. If the Item ever receives a MouseEvent due to the mouse wheel being scrolled, the listener will be notified.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Events.MouseWheelListener
Item myItem
MouseWheelListener listener
myItem:AddMouseWheelListener(listener)

AddSelectionListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.SelectionListener listener)

This action adds the given SelectionListeners to the Control.

Parameters

AddTextBox(text name)

This action adds a text box to the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the text box.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextBox: The text box object that was added to the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextBox

class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        TextBox field = homePage:AddTextBox("my textbox")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

AddTextField(text name)

This action adds a text field to the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the text field.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextField: The text field object that was added to the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextField

class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        TextField field = homePage:AddTextField("my field")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

AddTouchListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.TouchListener listener)

This action adds a TouchListener to the Item. If the Item ever receives a TouchEvent, the listener will be notified.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Events.TouchListener
Item myItem
TouchListener listener
myItem:AddTouchListener(listener)

Advance(number time)

This action is used to advance the item forward in time in physics space to synchronize it for time of impact solving. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action. Attribute Parameter time The amount of seconds to advance the item forward in time

Parameters

  • number time

ApplyAngularImpulse(number impulse)

This action applies an angular impulse to this item. The units are in kilogram units squared per second. This modifies the angular velocity of this item. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

  • number impulse: The angular impulse in kilogram units squared per second

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:ApplyAngularImpulse(80)

ApplyForce(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 force, Libraries.Compute.Vector2 point)

This action applies a force to this item at the passed point. The force is in kilogram units per second per second. The point is the screen coordinates where the point will be applied. If the point is not on the center of the item, then a torque will be introduced causing the item to rotate. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Compute.Vector2
use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
Vector2 force
Vector2 point

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)

force:Set(300, 350)
point:Set(100, 100)    // apply the force to the top right corner of the item

item:ApplyForce(force, point)

ApplyForceToCenter(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 force)

This action applies a force to this item at the center of the item. The force is in kilogram units per second per second. No torque is introduced to the item when using this action. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Compute.Vector2
use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
Vector2 force

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)

force:Set(300, 350)

item:ApplyForce(force)

ApplyLinearImpulse(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 impulse, Libraries.Compute.Vector2 point)

This action applies a linear impulse to this item at the passed point. The impulse is in kilogram units per second. This immeadietly modifies the linear velocity of this item. The point is the screen coordinates where the impulse will be applied. If the point is not the center of the item, then the angular velocity of this item will also be modified. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 impulse
Vector2 point

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)

impulse:Set(100)
point:Set(100, 100)     // apply the impulse to the top right corner

item:ApplyLinearImpulse(impulse, point)

ApplyTorque(number torque)

This action applies a torque to this item. The units are kilogram units squared per second per second. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

  • number torque: The torque to apply to this item in kilogram units squared per second per second

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:ApplyTorque(350)

AreChildrenProcessingMouseEvents()

This action returns whether or not this Item is allowing its children to receive mouse events if the Item is custom drawing. If the Item isn't using custom drawing, this value is irrelevant -- children objects always receive mouse events before the parent if the parent isn't performing custom drawing.

Return

boolean:

BeginCollision(Libraries.Interface.Item item)

This action is used to indicate that two items have just begun colliding. When two Items collide, the BeginCollision action should be called on both of them, with the other item passed as a parameter to the action. Note that this action does nothing by default, but classes that inherit from Item may override it.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item

Item collider1
Item collider2
collider1:BeginCollision(collider2)
collider2:BeginCollision(collider1)

BeginMouseOver()

This action is used when a control is moused over by the mouse.

CalculateDefaultFocusOrdering()

Forms by default can calculate a default ordering for focus across a set of controls. This means that if this action is called, the system will dig through the form that is being created and calculate such an order. This action is intentionally limited and, while it works for default cases and typical controls, callers should recognize that complex or highly custom forms will likely require additional work. Put another way, focus orderings are typically not one size fits all, even if this action tries to calculate sensible defaults under many common conditions.

CanRotate(boolean flag)

This action gets the position of the center of this item in global (world) coordinates.

Parameters

  • boolean flag

CancelBehaviors()

This action stops all behaviors this Item is following without finishing them.

CenterAlignContent()

This action aligns any content in the control to the center.

CenterAlignTitle()

This action aligns the title on the form control to the center.

ChangeButtonIcon(text name, text fileName)

This action changes the icon(image) on a button in the control. This action should only be used when the button is created and displayed on the form (after form:Display() is called).

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the button.
  • text fileName: The path of the image to use as the button icon.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Events.BehaviorEvent
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.FormBehavior
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button

class Main is FormBehavior
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 
        Button button = homePage:AddButton("my button", "Images/Blue Jay.png")
        
        button:SetBehavior(me)
        
        form:Display()
    end

    action Run(BehaviorEvent event)
        Form form = GetForm()
        Page page = GetPage()
        
        page:ChangeButtonIcon("my button", "Images/adoptUs.png")
    end
end

ChangeIcon(text name, text fileName)

This action changes a specified icon(image) in the control. This action should only be used when the icon is created and displayed on the form (after form:Display() is called).

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the icon.
  • text fileName: The path of the image to use as the icon.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.FormBehavior
use Libraries.Interface.Events.BehaviorEvent
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button

class Main is FormBehavior
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 
        homePage:AddIcon("my icon", "Images/Blue Jay.png")
        Button button = homePage:AddButton("Change Icon")
        
        button:SetBehavior(me)
        
        form:Display()
    end

    action Run(BehaviorEvent event)
        Form form = GetForm()
        Page page = GetPage()
        
        page:ChangeIcon("my icon", "Images/adoptUs.png")
    end
end

ClickedMouse()

This action is used when a control is clicked by the mouse.

CollideWithChildren()

This action sets the mass, mass moment of inertia, and how the 2D item should move (via linear velocity) to be at the desired location.

Return

boolean:

Compare(Libraries.Language.Object object)

This action compares two object hash codes and returns an integer. The result is larger if this hash code is larger than the object passed as a parameter, smaller, or equal. In this case, -1 means smaller, 0 means equal, and 1 means larger. This action was changed in Quorum 7 to return an integer, instead of a CompareResult object, because the previous implementation was causing efficiency issues.

Parameters

Return

integer: The Compare result, Smaller, Equal, or Larger.

Example

Object o
Object t
integer result = o:Compare(t) //1 (larger), 0 (equal), or -1 (smaller)

ComputeDistance(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 point, integer childIndex, Libraries.Compute.Vector2 normalOut)

This action computes the distance of the passed point from the collision shape attached to this item. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Parameters

  • Libraries.Compute.Vector2: The vector representing the point to compute the distance from
  • integer childIndex: The index of the collision shape attached to this item we want the bounding box of
  • Libraries.Compute.Vector2: The direction of the point from the shape

Return

number: The distance of the point from the collision shape of this item

Contains(number containsX, number containsY)

This action tests if a point in global x,y coordinates is contained inside this Item2D. The global coordinates are considered to be the x and y coordinates of this Item plus its offsetX and offsetY values.

Parameters

  • number containsX
  • number containsY

Return

boolean: Whether or not the point is contained in this Item.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetPosition(50, 50)
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(50)
boolean value = item:Contains(125, 70)

CopyAndActivateInputTable(text name)

This action obtains the Input Table from this control, copies it, assigns it a group name, sets the control to use the new input table, and then adds it to the global input table hash table.

Parameters

  • text name: the name of the group for the new input table.

Return

Libraries.Game.InputTable: the input table copy

Example

use Libraries.Game.Game
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextBox
use Libraries.Game.InputTable

class Main is Game
    action Main
        StartGame()
    end

    action CreateGame
        TextBox box
        InputTable copy = box:CopyAndActivateInputTable("New Group")
    end

    action Update(number seconds)
    end
end

CreateNodes(Libraries.Game.Collision.BroadphaseCollision2D broadphase, Libraries.Game.Collision.PhysicsPosition2D transform)

This action creates the nodes for this item for the broadphase collision. This action is needed in order to add the item to the collision detection system. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Parameters

DestroyNodes(Libraries.Game.Collision.BroadphaseCollision2D broadphase)

This action destroys the nodes for this item for the broadphase collision, essentially removing it from the collision detection system. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Parameters

Dispose()

This action is used to free up any additional memory that is being used by this Item for purposes such as graphics. Note that the Item class doesn't have any extra memory that needs to be released with this action, but some classes which inherit from Item, such as Libraries.Game.Graphics.Drawable, do.

DisposeAll()

This action is used to call Dispose on this Item and on the entire children hierarchy of this Item.

DisposeChildren()

This action is used to call Dispose on the entire children hierarchy of this Item. This will not call Dispose on this Item.

Draw(Libraries.Game.Graphics.Painter2D painter)

The Draw action is used to perform custom drawing on this Item and its children. This is only called during the Game engine's draw phase if this Item has enabled custom drawing via the SetCustomDrawing action. This is an advanced feature, and shouldn't be used by most users. If custom drawing is enabled, this action should be overriden -- if it isn't, the Item will attempt to provide default rendering for itself, its view, and its children, without regard to depth buffering. This action is responsible for instructing the provided Painter on how to draw this item, the view, and its children, and in what order to do so.

Parameters

Empty()

This action will remove all items from this item's children hierarchy. Note that this will not empty the hierarchies of the contained Items.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child1
Item2D child2
Item2D grandchild
parentItem:Add(child1)
parentItem:Add(child2)
child1:Add(grandChild)
parentItem:Empty()

EmptyAll()

This action will call Empty on the entire children hierarchy of this item, and then empty this item as well.

EmptyChildren()

This action is used to call Empty on all children contained in this item's children hierarchy. This will not empty the children of this item.

EmptySelectionListeners()

This action empties or removes all SelectionListeners which have been added to the Control of the given SelectionEvent.

EnablePhysics(boolean flag)

This action enables physics for this item. Passing true turns on physics for this item while passing false turns off physics for this item.

Parameters

  • boolean flag: Whether or not to enable physics for this item

Example

use Libraries.Game.Graphics.Drawable

Drawable circle
circle:LoadFilledCircle(30)
circle:EnablePhysics(true)

EndMouseOver()

This action is used when a control is moused over and it ends.

Equals(Libraries.Language.Object object)

This action determines if two objects are equal based on their hash code values.

Parameters

Return

boolean: True if the hash codes are equal and false if they are not equal.

Example

use Libraries.Language.Object
use Libraries.Language.Types.Text
Object o
Text t
boolean result = o:Equals(t)

FastMoving(boolean flag)

This action gets the linear velocity of this item in units per second. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

  • boolean flag

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 velocity

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
velocity:Set(100, 0)
item:SetLinearVelocity(velocity)

Vector2 currentVelocity = item:GetLinearVelocity()

FindControl(text name)

This action gets any item from the form container control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the item.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Item2D: The Item2D object that was found in the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Events.BehaviorEvent
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.FormBehavior
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.List
use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

class Main is FormBehavior
    action Main
        Form form
        
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 
       
        List myList = homePage:AddList("list")
        myList:Add("value 1")
        myList:Add("value 2")

        Button button = homePage:AddButton("Remove")
        button:SetBehavior(me)
        
        form:Display()
    end

    action Run(BehaviorEvent event)
        Form form = GetForm()
        Page page = GetPage()
        
        Item2D result = page:FindControl("Remove")
        result:Hide()
    end
end

FinishCollision(Libraries.Interface.Item item)

This action is used to indicate that two items that were previously colliding no longer are. The FinishCollision action should be called on both Items involved, with the other item passed as a parameter to the action. Note that this action does nothing by default, but classes that inherit from Item may override it.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item

Item collider1
Item collider2
collider1:FinishCollision(collider2)
collider2:FinishCollision(collider1)

FlipX()

This action will flip the Item2D across the X-axis. This flip is represented by the internal vertices of the Item2D. For classes that inherit from Item and can draw on the screen, this will flip the drawn image on the screen.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:FlipX()

FlipY()

This action will flip the Item2D across the Y-axis. This flip is represented by the internal vertices of the Item2D. For classes that inherit from Item and can draw on the screen, this will flip the drawn image on the screen.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:FlipY()

Focus()

This action sets focus on this Item. If the Item is not focusable, it will instead look through the parent hierarchy and set focus on the first focusable ancestor. If no focusable Item can be found, this action will have no effect.

GainedFocus(Libraries.Interface.Events.FocusEvent event)

This action is fired if the item received the focus.

Parameters

GainedSelection()

This action is used when a control gains the selection.

GetAccentColor()

This action gets the accent color from the control.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the accent control.

GetAccessibilityCode()

This action returns the current accessiblity code for this Item

Return

integer:

GetAccessibilityRoleDescription()

This action returns the custom accessibility role description for this item, if any.

Return

text:

GetAccessibilityType()

This action returns the name of the accessiblity code for this Item as Text

Return

text:

GetAccessibleParent()

This action returns the parent of this Item2D. An Item2D gets a parent when it is added to another Item using the Add action.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Item:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child
parentItem:Add(child)
Item2D item = child:GetParent()

GetActivationBehavior()

This action returns a default behavior for this paricular control. Some controls do nothing by default, like a TextBox that responds to different kinds of input. Others, however, have default behaviors, like a Button or a MenuItem. If there is no default behavior, this action returns undefined.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Behaviors.Behavior:

GetAngularDamping()

This action gets the inverse inertia of this item (i.e., one divided by the inertia of this item). Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Return

number: The inverse inertia of this item

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetMass(20)
number inverseInertia = item:GetInverseInertia()

GetAngularVelocity()

This action gets this item's angular velocity in radians per second. Physics must be enabled in this item before using this action.

Return

number: The angular velocity of this item in radians per second

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetAngularVelocity(0.1)
number angularVelocity = item:GetAngularVelocity()

GetBackgroundColor()

This action gets the color of the Control background color.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the background the color.

GetBorderColor()

This action gets the border color of the control.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the controls border color.

GetBorderStyle()

This action gets the border style either, LayoutProperties.TOP, LayoutProperties.BOTTOM, LayoutProperties.LEFT, LayoutProperties.RIGHT, and LayoutProperties.ALL.

Return

integer:

GetBorderThickness()

This action gets the border thickness on the control.

Return

number: the border thickness.

GetBottomLeftPixelRounding()

This action returns the bottom left pixel rounding value.

Return

number: the bottom left pixel rounding value.

GetBottomLeftRounding()

This action returns the bottom left rounding value.

Return

number: the bottom left rounding value.

GetBottomMargin()

This action gets the bottom margin size. The bottom margin is the space outside of the bottom border.

Return

number: the number amount of bottom margin.

GetBottomPadding()

This action gets the bottom padding size. The bottom padding is the space inside of the bottom border.

Return

number: the number amount of bottom padding.

GetBottomRightPixelRounding()

This action returns the bottom right pixel rounding value.

Return

number: the bottom right pixel rounding value.

GetBottomRightRounding()

This action returns the bottom right rounding value.

Return

number: the bottom right rounding value.

GetBoundingBox(integer childIndex)

This action is used to get the bounding box of the item. A bounding box is an axis-alligned rectangle containing the shape used for broadphase collision. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Parameters

  • integer childIndex: The index of the collision shape attached to this item we want the bounding box of

Return

Libraries.Game.Collision.BoundingBox2D: The bounding box of the collision shape attached to this item

GetBoundingRectangle()

This action returns a rectangle that fully encloses the four corners of the Item as it is represented by its internal vertices array. Note that the rectangle produced by this action will be larger than the actual box formed by this Item's vertices if the Item is rotated.

Return

Libraries.Game.Shapes.Rectangle:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Game.Shapes.Rectangle

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetBoundingBox(20, 80, 100, 100)
Rectangle box = myItem:GetBoundingRectangle()

GetButton(text name)

This action gets a button from the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the button.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button: The button object found in the control with the same name.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Events.BehaviorEvent
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.FormBehavior
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.FormBehavior
use Libraries.Interface.Events.BehaviorEvent
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button

class Main is FormBehavior
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form

        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 
        homePage:AddButton("my button")

        Button button = homePage:GetButton("my button")
        output button:GetName()
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

GetCenterX()

This action returns the x coordinate of the center of this Item2D.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetWidth(20)
myItem:SetX(100)
number x = myItem:GetCenterX()

GetCenterY()

This action returns the y coordinate of the center of this Item2D.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetHeight(20)
myItem:SetY(100)
number y = myItem:GetCenterY()

GetCheckbox(text name)

This action gets a specified checkbox from the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the checkbox.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.Checkbox: The checkbox object that was found in the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Checkbox

class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        homePage:AddCheckbox("my checkbox")
        Checkbox field = homePage:GetCheckbox("my checkbox")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

GetChildren()

This action gets the children of this item in an array.

Return

Libraries.Containers.Array: The children of this item in an array

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parent
Item2D child1
Item2D child2

parent:Add(child1)
parent:Add(child2)

Array<Item2D> children = parent:GetChildren()

GetClipCoordinates(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 xCoords, Libraries.Compute.Vector2 yCoords)

This action gets the clipping coordinates of this Item2D. The coordinates are returned via the two provided Vector2 parameters, the first vector storing the x values of the left and right sides of the clipping coordinates and the second vector storing the y values of the bottom and top sides. The returned boolean value indicates if this Item uses these clipping coordinates (i.e. if this Item or one of its parent Items has clipping enabled). If the clipping is valid, the action returns true. Otherwise, it returns false.

Parameters

Return

boolean:

GetCollisionGroupFlag()

This action gets the total force on this item. The units are kilogram units per second per second. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Return

boolean: The total force in kilogram units per second per second

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 force

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
force:Set(300, 350)
item:SetForce(force)
Vector2 totalForce = item:GetForce()

GetCollisionGroupIndex()

This action gets this item's angular velocity in radians per second. Physics must be enabled in this item before using this action.

Return

integer: The angular velocity of this item in radians per second

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetAngularVelocity(0.1)
number angularVelocity = item:GetAngularVelocity()

GetCollisionList()

This is an action used internally to retrieve the head of the linked list of collisions with this item. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Return

Libraries.Game.Collision.CollisionEdge2D: The head of the doubly linked list of collisions

GetColorProperty(text property)

This action gets the color of a given property in the Control.

Parameters

  • text property

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup:

GetContainerGridHeight()

This action returns how many rows this Control should be divided into when using a GridLayout. This will have no effect if this Control is not a container or if it is using a different layout.

Return

integer:

GetContainerGridWidth()

This action returns how many columns this Control should be divided into when using a GridLayout. This will have no effect if this Control is not a container or if it is using a different layout.

Return

integer:

GetContentAlignment()

This action returns the content alignment of the form container control.

Return

integer: The integer alignment, compared to FormConstants.

GetCurrentLayoutProperties()

This action returns the LayoutProperties that were last used to define the Control, and thus describe its current state. Note that if the Control hasn't been laid out yet, this will return undefined.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Layouts.LayoutProperties: The last LayoutProperties used to layout this Control, or undefined if it hasn't been laid out yet.

GetDefaultFont()

This action obtains the default font for this control. This allows individual controls to customize their default font properties on a per control basis. By default, the system asks for the default system font name on a per control basis, then loads that font and returns it. Font loading is shared, so loading many fonts of the same type and size is not particularly expensive and can be done without much concern for memory requirements.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.Font:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextBox
use Libraries.Game.Graphics.Font

TextBox box
text name = box:GetDefaultFont()
output name

GetDefaultFontName()

This action defines what the default font is for this control. This allows individual controls to customize their default font properties on a per control basis.

Return

text:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextBox

TextBox box
text name = box:GetDefaultFontName()
output name

GetDefaultFontSize()

This action defines what the default font size for this control. This allows individual controls to customize their default font properties on a per control basis.

Return

integer:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextBox

TextBox box
integer size = box:GetDefaultFontSize()
output size

GetDefaultLayoutProperties()

This action returns the default LayoutProperties used for this Control.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Layouts.LayoutProperties: The default LayoutProperties of this Control.

GetDefaultMonospaceFontName()

This action sets the interface scale for the control.

Return

text: the scale, a number between 0 and 1 that scales the control.

GetDefaultProportionalFontName()

This action defines what the default font is for this control. This allows individual controls to customize their default font properties on a per control basis.

Return

text:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextBox

TextBox box
text name = box:GetDefaultFontName()
output name

GetDelayedAssetLoader()

This action sets the controls associated form.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Forms.FormDelayedAssetLoader:

GetDensity()

This action applies a linear impulse to this item at the passed point. The impulse is in kilogram units per second. This immeadietly modifies the linear velocity of this item. The point is the screen coordinates where the impulse will be applied. If the point is not the center of the item, then the angular velocity of this item will also be modified. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 impulse
Vector2 point

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)

impulse:Set(100)
point:Set(100, 100)     // apply the impulse to the top right corner

item:ApplyLinearImpulse(impulse, point)

GetDescription()

This action returns the current internal description of the Item.

Return

text:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item

Item item
item:SetDescription("Used for demo purposes.")
output "My item's description is : " + item:GetDescription()

GetDrawableShape()

This action returns the DrawableShape attached to this Item, if it has one. For a default Item2D, this action will return undefined, but Drawables will have an associated shape if they've been loaded. Attributes: Returns The DrawableShape attached to this Item, or undefined if there isn't one.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.DrawableShape:

GetFirstFocusableItem()

This action gets the first focusable item in the focus order. It assumes that such an order has been calculated.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Item2D: The first Item2D idtem in the focus order.

GetFocusBorderColor()

This action gets the focus border color.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the focus border color.

GetFocusColor()

This action sets the focus color.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the focus color.

GetFocusFontColor()

This action gets focus font color.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the focus font color.

GetFocusListeners()

This action returns an Iterator containing all of the FocusListeners that have been added to this Item using the AddFocusListener action.

Return

Libraries.Containers.Iterator: An iterator containing all of the registered FocusListeners.

GetFont()

This action returns the Font being used by this Control. How this Font is used varies between Controls, and in some cases the Control will ignore it entirely (for example, ScrollPanes), but typically this sets the font that's used for the default label on many Controls, such as Buttons. If the Font is undefined, many Controls will omit their default label.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.Font: The Font being used for this Control.

GetFontColor()

This action gets the current the font color of the font contained in the Control.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup:

GetFontOutlineColor()

This action gets the font outline color value.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the font outline color value.

GetFontOutlineThickness()

This action returns the font outline thickness value.

Return

number: the font outline thickness value.

GetFontSize()

This action returns the base Font size to be used by this Control, if the Control uses a Font.

Return

integer:

GetForce()

This action gets the total force on this item. The units are kilogram units per second per second. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Return

Libraries.Compute.Vector2: The total force in kilogram units per second per second

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 force

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
force:Set(300, 350)
item:SetForce(force)
Vector2 totalForce = item:GetForce()

GetForegroundColor()

This action gets the color of the Control foreground color.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the foreground color.

GetForegroundSelectionColor()

This action gets the color of the Control foreground selection color.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the foreground selection color.

GetForm()

This action gets the form associated with the container.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form: the form object.

GetFormChildren()

Return

Libraries.Containers.Array

GetFriction()

This action applies a force to this item at the center of the item. The force is in kilogram units per second per second. No torque is introduced to the item when using this action. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Compute.Vector2
use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
Vector2 force

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)

force:Set(300, 350)

item:ApplyForce(force)

GetGestureListeners()

This action returns an Iterator containing all of the GestureListeners that have been added to this Item using the AddGestureListener action.

Return

Libraries.Containers.Iterator: An iterator containing all of the registered GestureListeners.

GetGlobalX()

This action returns the Item's global x coordinate. This is the actual world coordinate that the item exists at after it has been offset by its parent's position. If this Item doesn't have a parent, and the offset hasn't been set manually, this is the same as GetX().

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetOffsetX(100)
myItem:SetX(30)
number globalX = myItem:GetGlobalX()

GetGlobalY()

This action returns the Item's global y coordinate. This is the actual world coordinate that the item exists at after it has been offset by its parent's position. If this Item doesn't have a parent, and the offset hasn't been set manually, this is the same as GetY().

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetOffsetY(60)
myItem:SetX(90)
number globalY = myItem:GetGlobalY()

GetGlobalZ()

This action returns the Item's global z value. For an Item2D, this simply returns the Item2D's current z value.

Return

number:

GetGlowColor()

This action gets the glow color from the control.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the glow color.

GetGridHeight()

The GetGridHeight action returns how many cells in a column this Control occupies. By default, this value is 1. This value is only used for GridLayouts, and is ignored by other layouts.

Return

integer:

GetGridWidth()

The GetGridWidth action returns how many cells in a row this Control occupies. By default, this value is 1. This value is only used for GridLayouts, and is ignored by other layouts.

Return

integer:

GetGridX()

This action returns this Control's cell x-coordinate within a GridLayout. This indicates which column this Control is located within. If the Control's parent container isn't using a GridLayout, this value is ignored.

Return

integer:

GetGridY()

This action returns this Control's cell y-coordinate within a GridLayout. This indicates which row this Control is located within. If the Control's parent container isn't using a GridLayout, this value is ignored.

Return

integer:

GetHashCode()

This action gets the hash code for an object.

Return

integer: The integer hash code of the object.

Example

Object o
integer hash = o:GetHashCode()

GetHeight()

This action will return the currently set height of the Item2D.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
number height = myItem:GetHeight()

GetHorizontalLayoutMode()

The GetHorizontalLayoutMode is used to determine how the width of a Control is calculated. It should be one of the following constants: STANDARD, which will calculate the width as a set number of pixels plus a percentage of the container's width. FILL, which will make the width fill the remaining width of the container. FIT_CONTENTS, which will calculate the width to fit the children contents.

Return

integer: the integer that maps to the layout mode constant, one of STANDARD, FILL, or FILL_CONTENTS.

GetIcon()

This action gets the Icon (typically an image or texture) used by this Control. Different Controls use this Icon differently, depending on their purpose.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.TextureRegion:

GetIcon(text name)

This action gets an icon(image) from the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the icon.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.Icon: The icon object found in the control with the same name.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page

class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form

        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        homePage:AddIcon("my icon", "Images/Blue Jay.png")
        Icon icon = homePage:GetIcon("my icon")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

GetIconColor()

This action gets the Icon color from the control.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the icon color.

GetInertia()

This action gets the rotational inertia of this item. The inertia is in kilogram units squared.

Return

number: The inertia of this item in kilogram units squared

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetMass(20)
number inertia = item:GetInertia()

GetInputGroup()

This action returns the input group for this Item. When used with the Game libraries, this tag describes what InputTable (if any) can interact with this Item due to input.

Return

text: The input group tag being used by this Item.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item

Item item
item:SetInputGroup("arrowKeys")
output "My item's input group is : " + item:GetInputGroup()

GetInputTable()

Return

Libraries.Game.InputTable:

GetInterfaceOptionsKey()

This action sets the base Font size to be used by this Control, if the Control uses a Font.

Return

text:

GetInterfaceScale()

This action sets the interface scale for the control.

Return

number: the scale, a number between 0 and 1 that scales the control.

GetInverseInertia()

This action gets the inverse inertia of this item (i.e., one divided by the inertia of this item). Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Return

number: The inverse inertia of this item

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetMass(20)
number inverseInertia = item:GetInverseInertia()

GetInverseMass()

This action gets the inverse mass of the item (i.e., one divided by the mass of this item). Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Return

number: The inverse mass of this item

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetMass(20)
number inverseMass = item:GetInverseMass()

GetItem(integer index)

This action returns an Item2D that was previously added to this Item2D by finding it at the given index in the internal array of children Items.

Parameters

  • integer index

Return

Libraries.Interface.Item2D:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child1
Item2D child2
parentItem:Add(child1)
parentItem:Add(child2)
Item temp = parentItem:GetItem(0)

GetItemAt(number x, number y)

This action searches through all Items stored in this Item2D and finds the deepest Item which contains the given point in global coordinates.

Parameters

  • number x
  • number y

Return

Libraries.Interface.Item2D: The deepest item in the children hierarchy at the given point.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child
Item2D grandchild
parentItem:Add(child)
child:Add(grandchild)
grandchild:SetHeight(100)
grandchild:SetWidth(100)
Item2D temp = parentItem:GetItemAt(75, 75)

GetItemCount()

This action returns the number of items contained in this Item2D.

Return

integer:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child1
Item2D child2
parentItem:Add(child1)
parentItem:Add(child2)
integer size = parentItem:GetItemCount()

GetItems()

This action returns an iterator containing all the items contained in this Item2D.

Return

Libraries.Containers.Iterator:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Containers.Iterator

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child1
Item2D child2
parentItem:Add(child1)
parentItem:Add(child2)
Iterator<Item2D> iterator = parentItem:GetItems()

GetJointList()

This is an action used internally to retrieve the head of the liked list of joints connected to this item. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Return

Libraries.Game.Physics.Joints.JointEdge2D: The head of the linked list of connected joints

GetLabel(text name)

This action gets a specified label from the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the label.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.Label: The label object found in the control with the same name.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Game.Graphics.Label

class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form

        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        homePage:AddLabel("my label", "Phone Number")
        Label label = homePage:GetLabel("my label")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

GetLabelText()

This action returns the text used for this Control's label, if it has one.

Return

text: The text of this Control's label.

GetLastFocusableItem()

This action gets the last focusable item in the focus order. It assumes such an order has been calculated.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Item2D: The last Item2D item in the focus order.

GetLayer()

This action returns the current Layer2Dthat this Item2D is a part of in the Game libraries.

Return

Libraries.Game.Layer2D:

GetLayout()

Returns true if rendering the selection event.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Layouts.Layout:

GetLayoutProperties(number containerWidth, number containerHeight)

This action returns the best suited LayoutProperties stored by the Control for use with the given container width and height. The Control will attempt to find the most restricted LayoutProperties that is still valid, prioritizing width over height in case of equal values.

Parameters

  • number containerWidth: The width of the container the LayoutProperties must be legal for.
  • number containerHeight: The height of the container the LayoutProperties must be legal for.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Layouts.LayoutProperties: The LayoutProperties contained in the Control that is best suited to the requested container dimensions.

GetLayoutProperties()

This action is fired if the item lost the focus.

Return

Libraries.Containers.Iterator:

GetLayoutRows()

This action returns how many rows this element should occupy, if the layout supports it. This effectively makes the control taller. This is most commonly used in conjunction with FormRowLayout (or StackedRowPage which uses that layout).

Return

number:

GetLeftMargin()

This action gets the left margin size. The left margin is the space outside of the left border.

Return

number: the number amount of left margin.

GetLeftPadding()

This action gets the left padding size. The left padding is the space inside of the left border.

Return

number: the number amount of left padding.

GetLinearDamping()

Given the local coordinates of a vector, this action computes the screen coordinates of the corresponding vector.

Return

number: The coordinates of the corresponding global vector Attribute Example use Libraries.Interface.Item2D use Libraries.Compute.Vector2 Item2D item Vector2 localVector item:SetWidth(100) item:SetHeight(100) item:SetPosition(400, 250) localVector:Set(0, 0) // Get the coordinates of the center of the item Vector2 worldVector = item:GetWorldVector(localVector)

GetLinearVelocity()

This action gets the linear velocity of this item in units per second. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Return

Libraries.Compute.Vector2: The vector representing the linear velocity of this item in units per second

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 velocity

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
velocity:Set(100, 0)
item:SetLinearVelocity(velocity)

Vector2 currentVelocity = item:GetLinearVelocity()

GetLinearVelocityFromLocalPoint(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 localPoint)

Given a global point (i.e., the screen coordinates of the point), this action computes the corresponding point relative to the center of this item.

Parameters

Return

Libraries.Compute.Vector2: The coordinates of the point relative to the center of this item

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 worldPoint

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:SetPosition(400, 350)

worldPoint:Set(400, 350)    // the lower left corner of the item

Vector2 localPoint = item:GetLocalPoint(worldPoint)

GetLinearVelocityFromWorldPoint(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 worldPoint)

Given the screen coordinates of a vector, this action computes the local coordinates of the vector (i.e., the coordinates of the vector relative to the center of this item)

Parameters

Return

Libraries.Compute.Vector2: The local coordinates of the corresponding vector

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 worldVector

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:SetPosition(400, 350)

worldVector:Set(400, 350)    // the lower left corner of the item

Vector2 localVector = item:GetLocalVector(worldVector)

GetList(text name)

This action gets a list from the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the list.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.List: The list object that was found in the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.List

class Main
    action Main

        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        homePage:AddList("list")
        List myList = homePage:GetList("list")
        myList:Add("value 1")
        myList:Add("value 2")

        form:Display()
    end
end

GetLocalCenter()

This action gets the position of the center of this item in local coordinates (i.e., with respect to itself).

Return

Libraries.Compute.Vector2: The vector representing the center of this item in local coordinates

GetLocalPoint(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 worldPoint)

Given a global point (i.e., the screen coordinates of the point), this action computes the corresponding point relative to the center of this item.

Parameters

Return

Libraries.Compute.Vector2: The coordinates of the point relative to the center of this item

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 worldPoint

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:SetPosition(400, 350)

worldPoint:Set(400, 350)    // the lower left corner of the item

Vector2 localPoint = item:GetLocalPoint(worldPoint)

GetLocalVector(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 worldVector)

Given the screen coordinates of a vector, this action computes the local coordinates of the vector (i.e., the coordinates of the vector relative to the center of this item)

Parameters

Return

Libraries.Compute.Vector2: The local coordinates of the corresponding vector

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 worldVector

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:SetPosition(400, 350)

worldVector:Set(400, 350)    // the lower left corner of the item

Vector2 localVector = item:GetLocalVector(worldVector)

GetMass(Libraries.Game.Physics.Mass2D mass)

This action is used to advance the item forward in time in physics space to synchronize it for time of impact solving. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action. Attribute Parameter time The amount of seconds to advance the item forward in time

Parameters

GetMass()

This action returns the mass of the item in kilograms. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action. If the item is non-responsive or unmovable, the mass is zero.

Return

number: The mass in kilograms

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetMass(20)
number mass = item:GetMass()

GetMouseDownColor()

This action gets the mouse down font color.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the mouse over font color value.

GetMouseDownFontColor()

This action gets the mouse down font color.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the mouse down font color.

GetMouseDownGlowColor()

This action gets the mouse down glow color.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the mouse down glow color.

GetMouseListeners()

This action returns an Iterator containing all of the MouseListeners that have been added to this Item using the AddMouseListener action.

Return

Libraries.Containers.Iterator: An iterator containing all of the registered MouseListeners.

GetMouseMovementListeners()

This action returns an Iterator containing all of the MouseMovementListeners that have been added to this Item using the AddMouseMovementListener action.

Return

Libraries.Containers.Iterator: An iterator containing all of the registered MouseMovementListeners.

GetMouseOverColor()

This action gets the mouse over color.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the mouse over color.

GetMouseOverFontColor()

This action gets the mouse over font color.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the mouse over font color value.

GetMouseOverGlowColor()

This action gets the mouse over glow color.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the mouse over glow color.

GetMouseWheelListeners()

This action returns an Iterator containing all of the MouseWheelListeners that have been added to this Item using the AddMouseWheelListener action.

Return

Libraries.Containers.Iterator: An iterator containing all of the registered MouseWheelListeners.

GetName()

This action returns the current internal name of the Item.

Return

text:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item

Item item
item:SetName("My Item")
output "My item's name is " + item:GetName()

GetNextFocus()

This action returns the next focus item. When this Item has the focus and the user requests the focus to advance (e.g. by pressing the tab key), the returned value is the next item to receive that focus, if it is defined. If it isn't defined, the focus can not advance from this Item.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Item: The next Item to receive focus after this one.

GetNodeCount()

This action gets the number of broadphase nodes this item has. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Return

integer: The number of broadphase nodes attached to this item

GetNodes()

This action returns all of the broadphase nodes attached to this item in an array. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Return

Libraries.Containers.Array: The broadphase nodes attached to this item in an array

GetNumberProperty(text property)

This action gets a generic property with a specified name from the control.

Parameters

  • text property: the property name.

Return

number: the number value of the property.

GetOffsetX()

This action returns the X offset of the Item. The offset tells the Item where to relate its X position to. In other words, the X offset is where an X coordinate of 0 is for this Item. This is automatically set when using an action to add an Item to another Item.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetOffsetX(100)
number offset = myItem:GetOffsetX()

GetOffsetY()

This action returns the Y offset of the item. The offset tells the Item where to relate its Y position to. In other words, the Y offset is where a Y coordinate of 0 is for this item. This is automatically set when using an action to add an Item to another Item.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetOffsetY(75)
number offset = myItem:GetOffsetY()

GetOffsetZ()

This action returns the Z offset of the item. The offset tells the Item where to relate its Z position to. In other words, the Z offset is where a Z coordinate of 0 is for this item. This is automatically set when using an action to add an Item to another Item.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetOffsetZ(75)
number offset = myItem:GetOffsetZ()

GetOriginX()

This action will return the current X origin of this Item2D. By default, the origin is at the coordinates 0, 0.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(100, 200)
myItem:SetOriginCenter()
number xOrigin = myItem:GetOriginX()

GetOriginY()

This action will return the current Y origin of this Item2D. By default, the origin is at the coordinates 0, 0.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(100, 200)
myItem:SetOriginCenter()
number yOrigin = myItem:GetOriginY()

GetParent()

This action returns the parent of this Item2D. An Item2D gets a parent when it is added to another Item using the Add action.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Item2D:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child
parentItem:Add(child)
Item2D item = child:GetParent()

GetPercentageHeight()

This action returns the height of the Control relative to the size of its container, if the container's Layout supports it.

Return

number: The target height as a percentage (as a value between 0.0 and 1.0) of the container's height.

GetPercentageOriginX()

This action returns the x-coordinate of the "origin" of the Control, as a percentage of its width. The origin is the point that the Control is positioned by. For example, by default, the origin is at 0% x and 0% y, or the bottom-left corner of the Control. Changing the percentage origin x and y to 0.5 (50%) would mean the Control should be positioned using its center instead. The origin point is used by layouts that allow for specific positioning, such as ManualLayout or GridLayout. It is ignored by layouts that have special positioning rules, such as FlowLayout.

Return

number:

GetPercentageOriginY()

This action returns the y-coordinate of the "origin" of the Control, as a percentage of its width. The origin is the point that the Control is positioned by. For example, by default, the origin is at 0% x and 0% y, or the bottom-left corner of the Control. Changing the percentage origin x and y to 0.5 (50%) would mean the Control should be positioned using its center instead. The origin point is used by layouts that allow for specific positioning, such as ManualLayout or GridLayout. It is ignored by layouts that have special positioning rules, such as FlowLayout.

Return

number:

GetPercentageWidth()

This action returns the width of the Control relative to the size of its container, if the container's Layout supports it.

Return

number: The target width as a percentage (as a value between 0.0 and 1.0) of the container's width.

GetPercentageX()

This action returns the x position of the Control relative to the size of its container, if the container's Layout supports it.

Return

number: The target x position as a percentage (as a value between 0.0 and 1.0) of the container's width.

GetPercentageY()

This action returns the y position of the Control relative to the size of its container, if the container's Layout supports it.

Return

number: The target y position as a percentage (as a value between 0.0 and 1.0) of the container's height.

GetPhysicsProperties()

This action computes the distance of the passed point from the collision shape attached to this item. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Return

Libraries.Game.Physics.PhysicsProperties2D: The distance of the point from the collision shape of this item

GetPixelHeight()

This action returns the target height of the Control in pixels. Note that this may not be used by some layouts (such as FlowLayout).

Return

number: The target height of this Control in pixels.

GetPixelWidth()

This action returns the target width of the Control in pixels. Note that this may not be used by some layouts (such as FlowLayout).

Return

number: The target height of this Control in pixels.

GetPixelX()

This action returns the target x position of the Control in pixels. Note that this may not be used by some layouts (such as FlowLayout).

Return

number: The target x position of this Control in pixels.

GetPixelY()

This action returns the target y position of the Control in pixels. Note that this may not be used by some layouts (such as FlowLayout).

Return

number: The target y position of this Control in pixels.

GetPopupMenu()

The GetContextMenu action returns this Control's context menu, if it has one. A context menu is a PopupMenu which appears when a user wants additonal context about this Control (most commonly by right-clicking on the Control).

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.PopupMenu:

GetPreviousFocus()

This action returns the previous focus item. When this Item has the focus and the user requests the focus to move backwards (e.g. by pressing shift & tab), the returned value is the previous item to receive that focus, if it is defined. If it isn't defined, the focus can not move backwards from this Item.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Item: The previous Item to receive focus before this one.

GetPropertiesSize()

Return

integer

GetProperty(text key)

Parameters

  • text key

Return

Libraries.Data.Formats.JavaScriptObjectNotation

GetPropertyKeyIterator()

Return

Libraries.Containers.Iterator

GetRadioButton(text name)

This action gets a specified radio button from the control. The radio button can be found in a Grouping, on a page.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the radio button.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.RadioButton: The radio button object that was found in the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Checkbox
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Grouping
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.RadioButton

class Main
    action Main

        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        Grouping radioGroup = homePage:AddGrouping("switch")
        radioGroup:AddRadioButton("On")
        radioGroup:AddRadioButton("Off")

        RadioButton radButton = radioGroup:GetRadioButton("Off")

        radButton:SetToHugeFont()
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

GetRawInertia()

This action is used to update this items position in physics space after physics solving is finished for this item. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Return

number:

GetResponsiveness()

This action gets the inverse mass of the item (i.e., one divided by the mass of this item). Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Return

integer: The inverse mass of this item

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetMass(20)
number inverseMass = item:GetInverseMass()

GetRestitution()

This action gets the total torque on this item. The units are kilogram units squared per second per second. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Return

number: The total torque in kilogram units squared per second per second

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetTorque(200)
number totalTorque = item:GetTorque()

GetRightMargin()

This action gets the right margin size. The right margin is the space outside of the right border.

Return

number: the number amount of right margin.

GetRightPadding()

This action gets the right padding size. The right padding is the space inside of the right border.

Return

number: the number amount of right padding.

GetRotation()

Gets the current degree of rotation of this Item.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetRotation(90)
number rotation = myItem:GetRotation()

GetRotationInRadians()

Gets the current rotation of this Item in radians.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetRotation(90)
number rotation = myItem:GetRotationInRadians()

GetScaleX()

This action will return the current x-scaling value of this Item2D. By default, the x-scaling value of an Item is 1.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(100, 200)
myItem:Scale(1.25)
number scaleX = myItem:GetScaleX()

GetScaleY()

This action will return the current y-scaling value of this Item2D. By default, the y-scaling value of an Item is 1.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(100, 200)
myItem:Scale(1.25)
number scaleY = myItem:GetScaleY()

GetScreenX()

This action returns the x coordinate of the Item on the screen. If the Item hasn't been attached to a Layer, this will return a "Not a Number" value instead.

Return

number:

GetScreenY()

This action returns the y coordinate of the Item on the screen. If the Item hasn't been attached to a Layer, this will return a "Not a Number" value instead.

Return

number:

GetSelectionBorderColor()

This action gets the selection border color.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the selection border color.

GetSelectionColor()

This action gets the selection color from the control.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the selection color.

GetSelectionFontColor()

This action gets the selection font color on the control.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the selection font color.

GetSelectionListeners()

This action return an iterator of all SelectionListeners which have been added to the Control of the given SelectionEvent.

Return

Libraries.Containers.Iterator: All SelectionListeners registered with the Control.

GetShadowColor()

This action gets the shaddow color from the control.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the shaddow color.

GetShadowEdgeFade()

This action returns the shadow edge fade property.

Return

number: the shadow edge fade number.

GetShadowHeight()

This action returns the shadow height property.

Return

number: the shadow height number.

GetShadowWidth()

This action returns the shadow width property.

Return

number: the shadow width number.

GetShadowX()

This action returns the shadow X value.

Return

number: the shadow X value.

GetShadowY()

This action returns the shadow Y value.

Return

number: the shadow Y value.

GetShape()

This item returns the collision shape of this item. The collision shape is the shape the collision system will use to test for collisions with this item. Note that this may be different from the shape drawn on the screen.

Return

Libraries.Game.Collision.Shapes.CollisionShape2D: The collision shape for this item

Example

use Libraries.Game.Drawable
use Libraries.Game.Collision.Shapes.Circle

Drawable ball
ball:Load("ball.png")
Circle circle
circle:SetRadius(30)
ball:SetShape(circle)
CollisionShape2D shape = ball:GetShape()

GetShapeType()

This action returns an integer representing the type of collision shape currently attached to this item.

Return

integer: The integer representing the type of collision shape for this item

GetSkipLabelsInFocus()

This action gets the default skip label in focus flag.

Return

boolean: true if skip label in focus flag was set.

GetSleepTime()

This action gets the children of this item in an array.

Return

number: The children of this item in an array

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parent
Item2D child1
Item2D child2

parent:Add(child1)
parent:Add(child2)

Array<Item2D> children = parent:GetChildren()

GetSweep()

This action returns the swept movement of this item used for time of impact solving for the physics system. This action is used internally and users should not need to call this action.

Return

Libraries.Game.Collision.Sweep2D: The swept motion of this item

GetTextBox(text name)

This action gets a specified text box from the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the text box.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextBox: The text box object that was found in the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextBox

class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        homePage:AddTextBox("a")
        TextBox txtBox = homePage:GetTextBox("a")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

GetTextField(text name)

This action gets a specified text field from the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the text field.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextField: The text field object that was found in the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextField

class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        homePage:AddTextField("my field")
        TextField removedField = homePage:GetTextField("my field")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

GetTitle()

This action returns the title of the form control.

Return

text: The text value of the title of the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page

class Main
    action Main
        Form form
        Page page = form:GetMainPage()
        text title = page:GetTitle()

        form:Display()
    end
end

GetTitleAlignment()

This action returns the title alignment of the form container control.

Return

integer: The integer alignment compared to FormConstants.

GetTitleFontSize()

This action gets the font size of the title on the form control.

Return

integer: The integer font size of the controls title.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page

class Main
    action Main
        Form form
        Page page = form:GetMainPage()
        page:SetTitle("my title")
        integer fontSize = page:GetTitleFontSize()

        form:Display()
    end
end

GetTitleLabel()

This action returns the title label of the form control.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.Label: The Label of the title in the form control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Game.Graphics.Label

class Main
    action Main
        Form form
        Page page = form:GetMainPage()

        page:SetTitle("The Title")
        Label title = page:GetTitleLabel()
        output title:GetText()

        form:Display()
    end
end

GetToggleButton(text name)

This action gets a specified toggle button from the control. The toggle button can be found in a Grouping, on a page.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the toggle button.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.ToggleButton: The toggle button object that was found in the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Checkbox
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Grouping
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.ToggleButton
use Libraries.Game.Graphics.Color

class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        Grouping toggleGroup = homePage:AddGrouping("switch")
        toggleGroup:AddToggleButton("On")
        toggleGroup:AddToggleButton("Off")

        ToggleButton togButton = homePage:GetToggleButton("Off")

        Color color
        togButton:SetBackgroundColor(color:Green())
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

GetTopLeftPixelRounding()

This action returns the top left pixel rounding value.

Return

number: the top left pixel rounding value.

GetTopLeftRounding()

This action returns the top left rounding value.

Return

number: the top left rounding value.

GetTopMargin()

This action gets the top margin size. The top margin is the space outside of the top border.

Return

number: the number amount of top margin.

GetTopPadding()

This action gets the top padding size. The top padding is the space inside of the top border.

Return

number: the number amount of top padding.

GetTopRightPixelRounding()

This action returns the top right pixel rounding value.

Return

number: the top right pixel rounding value.

GetTopRightRounding()

This action returns the top right rounding value.

Return

number: the top right rounding value.

GetTorque()

This action gets the total torque on this item. The units are kilogram units squared per second per second. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Return

number: The total torque in kilogram units squared per second per second

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetTorque(200)
number totalTorque = item:GetTorque()

GetTouchListeners()

This action returns an Iterator containing all of the TouchListeners that have been added to this Item using the AddTouchListener action.

Return

Libraries.Containers.Iterator: An iterator containing all of the registered TouchListeners.

GetTransform()

This action returns the position of the item in physical space. This acction is used internally and should not be used by users to get the position of this item on the screen.

Return

Libraries.Game.Collision.PhysicsPosition2D: The position and angle of this item in physics space

GetTransform0()

This action gets the position of the item in physics space from the previous frame. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action

Return

Libraries.Game.Collision.PhysicsPosition2D: The position and angle of the item in physics space in the previous frame

GetUnfocusedSelectionBorderColor()

This action gets the unfocused selection border color on the control.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the unfocused selection border color.

GetUnfocusedSelectionColor()

This action gets the unfocused selection color on the control.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the unfocused selection color.

GetUnfocusedSelectionFontColor()

This action gets the unfocused selection font color on the control.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup: the unfocused selection font color.

GetVerticalLayoutMode()

The SetVerticalLayoutMode is used to determine how the height of a Control is calculated. It should be one of the following constants: STANDARD, which will calculate the height as a set number of pixels plus a percentage of the container's height. FILL, which will make the height fill the remaining height of the container. FIT_CONTENTS, which will calculate the height to fit the children contents. FIT_FONT, which will fit the height of the Control to the line height of the Font set in this LayoutProperties.

Return

integer: the integer that maps to the layout mode constant, one of STANDARD, FILL, FILL_CONTENTS, or FIT_FONT.

GetView2D()

The SetClipping action is used to enable or disable clipping. If it is enabled, when the Item and its children are drawn as part of the QueueForDrawing action, any pixels that would be drawn outside of the unrotated dimensions of the Item are not rendered. In other words, the Item will only draw inside the exact rectangle formed by its x, y position and its width and height.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Views.View2D:

GetVisibleItemAt(number x, number y)

This action searches through all Items stored in this Item2D and finds the deepest Item which contains the given point in global coordinates. This action will only return items which are visible (that is, IsShowing() returns true).

Parameters

  • number x
  • number y

Return

Libraries.Interface.Item2D: The deepest visible item in the children hierarchy at the given point.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child
Item2D grandchild
parentItem:Add(child)
child:Add(grandchild)
grandchild:SetHeight(100)
grandchild:SetWidth(100)
Item2D temp = parentItem:GetVisibleItemAt(75, 75)

GetWidth()

This action will return the currently set width of the Item2D.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
number width = myItem:GetWidth()

GetWorldCenter()

This action gets the position of the center of this item in global (world) coordinates.

Return

Libraries.Compute.Vector2: The vector representing the center of this item in global coordinates

GetWorldPoint(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 localPoint)

Given a point relative to the center of this item, this action computes and returns that point in screen coordinates.

Parameters

Return

Libraries.Compute.Vector2: The screen coordinates of the passed local point

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 localPoint

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:SetPosition(400, 250)

localPoint:Set(0, 0)    // Get the coordinates of the center of the item

Vector2 worldPoint = item:GetWorldPoint(localPoint)

GetWorldVector(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 localVector)

Given the local coordinates of a vector, this action computes the screen coordinates of the corresponding vector.

Parameters

Return

Libraries.Compute.Vector2: The coordinates of the corresponding global vector Attribute Example use Libraries.Interface.Item2D use Libraries.Compute.Vector2 Item2D item Vector2 localVector item:SetWidth(100) item:SetHeight(100) item:SetPosition(400, 250) localVector:Set(0, 0) // Get the coordinates of the center of the item Vector2 worldVector = item:GetWorldVector(localVector)

GetX()

This action returns the currently set X coordinate of the Item.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
number value = myItem:GetX()

GetY()

This action returns the currently set Y coordinate of the Item.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
number value = myItem:GetY()

GetZ()

This action returns the currently set Z value of this Item2D.

Return

number:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
number value = myItem:GetZ()

HasBorderThickness()

This action returns true when the border thickness on the control has been set.

Return

boolean: true when the border has thickness on the control.

HasBottomBorder()

This action returns true when teh bottom border is enabled.

Return

boolean:

HasBottomLeftPixelRounding()

This action returns the current status of the bottom left pixel rounding value.

Return

boolean: true if the control has a bottom left pixel rounding value.

HasBottomLeftRounding()

This action returns the current status of the bottom left rounding value.

Return

boolean: true if the control has a bottom left rounding value.

HasBottomRightPixelRounding()

This action returns the current status of the bottom right pixel rounding value.

Return

boolean: true if the control has a bottom right pixel rounding value.

HasBottomRightRounding()

This action returns the current status of the bottom right rounding value.

Return

boolean: true if the control has a bottom right rounding value.

HasColorPropertyOverride(text property)

This action gets whether the color property override is activated.

Parameters

  • text property

Return

boolean: true if the color property is overridden.

HasDefaultFocusOrdering()

This action returns true when the default focus order is set.

Return

boolean: true if a default focus order is set.

HasFontOutlineThickness()

This action returns the current status of the font outline thickness.

Return

boolean: true if the control has a font outline thickness set.

HasLeftBorder()

This action returns true when teh left border is enabled.

Return

boolean:

HasMoved()

This action returns an integer representing the type of collision shape currently attached to this item.

Return

boolean: The integer representing the type of collision shape for this item

HasNumberPropertyOverride(text property)

This action gets whether the number property override is activated.

Parameters

  • text property

Return

boolean: true if the number property is overridden.

HasProperties()

Return

boolean

HasProperty(text key)

Parameters

  • text key

Return

boolean

HasRightBorder()

This action returns true when teh right border is enabled.

Return

boolean:

HasShadowEdgeFade()

This action returns the current status of the shadow edge fade.

Return

boolean: true if the control has a shadow edge fade.

HasShadowHeight()

This action returns the current status of the shadow height.

Return

boolean: true if the control has a shadow height.

HasShadowWidth()

This action returns the current status of the shadow width.

Return

boolean: true if the control has a shadow width.

HasShadowX()

This action returns the current status of the shadow X value.

Return

boolean: true if the control has a shadow X value.

HasShadowY()

This action returns the current status of the shadow Y value.

Return

boolean: true if the control has a shadow Y value.

HasTopBorder()

This action returns true when teh top border is enabled.

Return

boolean:

HasTopLeftPixelRounding()

This action returns the current status of the top left pixel rounding value.

Return

boolean: true if the control has a top left pixel rounding value.

HasTopLeftRounding()

This action returns the current status of the top left rounding value.

Return

boolean: true if the control has a top left rounding value.

HasTopRightPixelRounding()

This action returns the current status of the top right pixel rounding value.

Return

boolean: true if the control has a top right pixel rounding value.

HasTopRightRounding()

This action returns the current status of the top right rounding value.

Return

boolean: true if the control has a top right rounding value.

Hide()

This action is used to indicate that an Item and all Items that were added to it should not be visible on the screen. Note that the Item class on its own cannot be drawn on the screen, but classes that inherit from it such as Libraries.Game.Graphics.Drawable can be. By default, Items are considered visible.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item

Item item
item:Hide()

IsAcceptingMouseInput()

This action returns whether or not this Item accepts mouse input. If the value is true, this will intercept incoming mouse events, triggering any related MouseListeners and InputSets and preventing the mouse event from propagating to other Items on the Layer. The default value is true.

Return

boolean: True if this Item can receive mouse events, or false otherwise.

IsAccessibleParent()

This action returns the nearest parent object that is accessible. This can be anything that the programmer wants to be accessible, from user interface components in a 2D interface to 3D components relative in 3-space on screen. By default, items have no accessible parent and are self-contained, but user interface components normally override the behavior so that controls can be logically nested within each other. attribute: returns Item

Return

boolean:

IsClipping()

The IsClipping action returns true if pixel clipping is enabled, or false if it is disabled. If it is enabled, when the Item and its children are drawn as part of the QueueForDrawing action, any pixels that would be drawn outside of the unrotated dimensions of the Item are not rendered. In other words, the Item will only draw inside the exact rectangle formed by its x, y position and its width and height.

Return

boolean: Whether or not pixel clipping is enabled for this Item.

IsCollidable()

This action determines whether this item is collidable.

Return

boolean: True if this item is collidable, false otherwise

Example

use Libraries.Game.Graphics.Drawable

Drawable circle
circle:LoadFilledCircle(30)
circle:SetCollidable(true)
boolean result = circle:IsCollidable

IsCustomDrawing()

The IsCustomDrawing action returns whether or not this Item is directly managing how itself and its children are drawn. When this value is true, the Item is responsible for determining its rendering via the Draw(Painter2D) action -- if this action isn't overridden, the Item and its children won't be drawn. This is an advanced feature only necessary for complex custom components, and most users will not need to use this functionality.

Return

boolean: Whether or not this Item is currently using custom drawing rules.

IsEmpty()

This action returns whether or not any items are contained in this Item.

Return

boolean:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child1
parentItem:Add(child1)
boolean wasEmpty = parentItem:IsEmpty()

IsFastMoving()

This action sets this item's angular velocity in radians per second. Physics must be enabled in this item before using this action.

Return

boolean:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetAngularVelocity(0.1)

IsFlippedX()

This action will return if the Item2D is currently flipped across the x-axis.

Return

boolean:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:FlipX()
boolean flip = myItem:IsFlippedX()

IsFlippedY()

This action will return if the Item2D is currently flipped across the y-axis.

Return

boolean:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:FlipY()
boolean flip = myItem:IsFlippedY()

IsFocusable()

This action returns whether or not the Item can currently receive focus. This property can be set with SetFocusable().

Return

boolean:

IsFocused()

The IsFocused action determines if this Item is currently focused, returning true if it is, or false if it is not.

Return

boolean:

IsNonResponsive()

This action gets the number of broadphase nodes this item has. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Return

boolean: The number of broadphase nodes attached to this item

IsOnLayer()

This action returns true if the item has been added to a Layer, or false otherwise.

Return

boolean: True if the item is on a Layer, or false otherwise.

IsPhysicsEnabled()

This action determines whether physics is currently enabled for this item.

Return

boolean: True if physics is enabled for this item, false otherwise

Example

use Libraries.Game.Graphics.Drawable

Drawable circle
circle:LoadFilledCircle(30)
circle:EnablePhysics(true)
boolean result = circle:IsPhysicsEnabled()

IsRenderingFocus()

Returns true if rendering the focus event.

Return

boolean:

IsRenderingMouseDown()

Returns true if rendering the mouse down event.

Return

boolean:

IsRenderingMouseOver()

Returns true if rendering the mouse over event.

Return

boolean:

IsRenderingSelection()

Returns true if rendering the selection event.

Return

boolean:

IsResponsive()

This action sets this item to be collidable. Passing true turns on collision for this item while passing false turns off collision for this item.

Return

boolean:

Example

use Libraries.Game.Graphics.Drawable

Drawable circle
circle:LoadFilledCircle(30)
circle:SetCollidable(true)

IsRotationAllowed()

This action determines whether physics is currently enabled for this item.

Return

boolean: True if physics is enabled for this item, false otherwise

Example

use Libraries.Game.Graphics.Drawable

Drawable circle
circle:LoadFilledCircle(30)
circle:EnablePhysics(true)
boolean result = circle:IsPhysicsEnabled()

IsShowing()

This action returns whether the Item is currently set to be visible on the screen.

Return

boolean: A boolean representing whether or not the Item is currently visible.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item

Item item
item:Hide()
boolean visible = item:IsShowing()

IsSimulated()

This action gets the position of the center of this item in local coordinates (i.e., with respect to itself).

Return

boolean: The vector representing the center of this item in local coordinates

IsSimulationRequired()

This action sets the x-component of this item's linear velocity in units per second. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Return

boolean:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetLinearVelocityX(100)

IsUnmovable()

This action creates the nodes for this item for the broadphase collision. This action is needed in order to add the item to the collision detection system. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Return

boolean:

LeftAlignContent()

This action aligns any content in the control to the left.

LeftAlignTitle()

This action aligns the title on the form control to the left.

LoadGraphics(Libraries.Interface.Layouts.LayoutProperties properties)

This action is used to load the graphical components of the Control. This is handled automatically by the Game engine as needed, and most users shouldn't need to use this action directly.

Parameters

LostFocus(Libraries.Interface.Events.FocusEvent event)

This action is fired if the item lost the focus.

Parameters

LostSelection()

This action is used when a control loses the selection.

Move(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 movement)

This action will increase the x and y coordinates of this Item by the values stored in the provided Vector2.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetX(50)
myItem:SetY(80)
Vector2 vector
vector:Set(25, -20)
myItem:Move(vector)

Move(number xAmount, number yAmount)

This action will increase the x and y coordinates of this Item by the given amounts.

Parameters

  • number xAmount
  • number yAmount

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetX(50)
myItem:SetY(80)
myItem:Move(25, -20)

MoveX(number xAmount)

This action will increase the x-coordinate of this Item by the given amount.

Parameters

  • number xAmount

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetX(50)
myItem:MoveX(25)

MoveY(number yAmount)

This action will increase the y-coordinate of this Item by the given amount.

Parameters

  • number yAmount

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetY(50)
myItem:MoveY(25)

MoveZ(number zAmount)

This action will increase the z-coordinate of this Item by the given amount.

Parameters

  • number zAmount

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item@D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetZ(5)
myItem:MoveZ(2)

NeedsLayout()

This action returns whether or not the Control is in need of laying out by its container (or the parent Layer2D, if no container Control exists).

Return

boolean:

NotifyControlActivationListeners(Libraries.Interface.Events.ControlActivationEvent event)

This action adds a different Item2D into this one, storing the added Item2D at a specific index in the internal array.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child
parentItem:Add(0, child)

NotifySelectionListeners(Libraries.Interface.Events.SelectionEvent event)

This action will notify all SelectionListeners which have been added to the Control of the given SelectionEvent.

Parameters

PrepareVertices()

Checks to see if the Item2D's internal vertices are up to date, and updates them if they are not. This is used primarily internally to ensure that the item's vertices are properly aligned before use, e.g. to project an image on the screen at the coordinates of the vertices. Most users will never need to use this action directly.

ProcessGestureEvent(Libraries.Interface.Events.GestureEvent event)

This action takes a gesture event and handles it. It will first test to see if the gesture event took place within the bounds of this Item. If so, it will notify any GestureListeners of the event. If the event was not contained within this Item, or if there are no GestureListeners on this Item, the Item will ask its parent Item to process the event, if there is a parent.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Interface.Events.GestureEvent
use Libraries.Interface.Events.GestureListener
Item2D myItem
GestureListener listener
myItem:AddGestureListener(listener)
GestureEvent event
event:eventType = event:DOUBLE_TAP
myItem:ProcessGestureEvent(event)

ProcessMouseEvent(Libraries.Interface.Events.MouseEvent event)

This action takes a mouse event and handles it. It will first test to see if the mouse event took place within the bounds of this Item. If so, it will notify any MouseListeners of the event. If the event was not contained within this Item, or if there are no MouseListeners on this Item, the Item will ask its parent Item to process the mouse event, if there is a parent.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Interface.Events.MouseEvent
use Libraries.Interface.Events.MouseListener
Item2D myItem
MouseListener listener
myItem:AddMouseListener(listener)
MouseEvent event
event:eventType = event:CLICKED_MOUSE
myItem:ProcessMouseEvent(event)

ProcessTouchEvent(Libraries.Interface.Events.TouchEvent event)

This action takes a touch event and handles it. It will first test to see if the touch event took place within the bounds of this Item. If so, it will notify any TouchListeners of the event. If the event was not contained within this Item, or if there are no TouchListeners on this Item, the Item will ask its parent Item to process the touch event, if there is a parent.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Interface.Events.TouchEvent
use Libraries.Interface.Events.TouchListener
Item2D myItem
TouchListener listener
myItem:AddTouchListener(listener)
TouchEvent event
event:eventType = event:BEGAN
myItem:ProcessTouchEvent(event)

QueueForDrawing(Libraries.Game.Graphics.Painter2D painter)

This action is used to draw this Item on the screen, and then draw all of the Item's children hierarchy on the screen. Note that Items themselves can not be drawn, but some classes that extend the Item class, such as the Libraries.Game.Graphics.Drawable class, can be. To see how they draw, see their documentation.

Parameters

ReleasedMouse()

This action is used when a control is released by the mouse.

Remove(integer index)

This action removes an Item2D at a specifed index from the internal array.

Parameters

  • integer index

Return

Libraries.Interface.Item2D:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child
parentItem:Add(0, child)
parentItem:Remove(0)

Remove(Libraries.Interface.Item2D item)

This action removes an Item2D from the internal array.

Parameters

Return

boolean:

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child
parentItem:Add(0, child)
parentItem:Remove(child)

RemoveButton(text name)

This action removes a button from the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the button.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button: The button object removed from the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Events.BehaviorEvent
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.FormBehavior
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.FormBehavior
use Libraries.Interface.Events.BehaviorEvent
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button

class Main is FormBehavior
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
  
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 
        homePage:AddButton("my button")

        Button button = homePage:RemoveButton("my button")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

RemoveCheckbox(text name)

This action removes a checkbox from the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the checkbox.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.Checkbox: The checkbox object that was removed from the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Checkbox

class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        homePage:AddCheckbox("my checkbox")
        Checkbox field = homePage:RemoveCheckbox("my checkbox")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

RemoveControlActivationListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.ControlActivationListener listener)

This action removes an Item2D from the internal array.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child
parentItem:Add(0, child)
parentItem:Remove(child)

RemoveFocusListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.FocusListener listener)

This action removes a FocusListener from the Item. The listener will no longer receive notification if the Item gets a FocusEvent.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Events.FocusListener
Item myItem
FocusListener listener
myItem:AddFocusListener(listener)
myItem:RemoveFocusListener(listener)

RemoveGestureListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.GestureListener listener)

This action removes a GestureListener from the Item. The listener will no longer receive notification if the Item gets a GestureEvent.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Events.GestureListener
Item myItem
GestureListener listener
myItem:AddGestureListener(listener)
myItem:RemoveGestureListener(listener)

RemoveIcon(text name)

This action removed an icon(image) from the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the icon.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.Icon: The icon object that was removed from the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Icon
    
class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        homePage:AddIcon("my icon", "Images/Blue Jay.png")
        Icon icon = homePage:RemoveIcon("my icon")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

RemoveLabel(text name)

This action removes a specified label from the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the label.

Return

Libraries.Game.Graphics.Label: The label object that was removed from the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Game.Graphics.Label
    
class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        homePage:AddLabel("my label", "Phone Number")
        Label label = homePage:RemoveLabel("my label")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

RemoveLayoutProperties(Libraries.Interface.Layouts.LayoutProperties properties)

Returns true if rendering the mouse over event.

Parameters

RemoveList(text name)

This action removes a list from the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the list.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.List: The list object that was removed from the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Events.BehaviorEvent
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.FormBehavior
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.List

class Main is FormBehavior
    action Main
        Form form
        
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 
       
        List myList = homePage:AddList("list")
        myList:Add("value 1")
        myList:Add("value 2")

        Button button = homePage:AddButton("Remove")
        button:SetBehavior(me)
        
        form:Display()
    end

    action Run(BehaviorEvent event)
        Form form = GetForm()
        Page page = GetPage()
        
        page:RemoveList("list")
    end
end

RemoveMouseListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.MouseListener listener)

This action removes a MouseListener from the Item. The listener will no longer receive notification if the Item gets a mouse click event.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Events.MouseListener
Item myItem
MouseListener listener
myItem:AddMouseListener(listener)
myItem:RemoveMouseListener(listener)

RemoveMouseMovementListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.MouseMovementListener listener)

This action removes a MouseMovementListener from the Item. The listener will no longer receive notification if the Item gets a mouse movement event.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Events.MouseMovementListener
Item myItem
MouseMovementListener listener
myItem:AddMouseMovementListener(listener)
myItem:RemoveMouseMovementListener(listener)

RemoveMouseWheelListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.MouseWheelListener listener)

This action removes a MouseWheelListener from the Item. The listener will no longer receive notification if the Item gets a mouse wheel event.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Events.MouseWheelListener
Item myItem
MouseWheelListener listener
myItem:AddMouseWheelListener(listener)
myItem:RemoveMouseWheelListener(listener)

RemoveSelectionListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.SelectionListener listener)

This action removes the given SelectionListeners from the Control.

Parameters

Return

boolean: true if the selectionListener is removed.

RemoveTextBox(text name)

This action removes a specified text box from the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the text box.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextBox: The text box object that was removed from the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextBox

class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        homePage:AddTextBox("a")
        TextBox txtBox = homePage:RemoveTextBox("a")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

RemoveTextField(text name)

This action removes a specified text field from the control.

Parameters

  • text name: The text name identifying the text field.

Return

Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextField: The text field object that was removed from the control.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.TextField

class Main
    action Main
        // create the app
        Form form
        Page homePage = form:GetMainPage() 

        homePage:AddTextField("my field")
        TextField removedField = homePage:RemoveTextField("my field")
        
        form:Display()
    end
end

RemoveTouchListener(Libraries.Interface.Events.TouchListener listener)

This action removes a TouchListener from the Item. The listener will no longer receive notification if the Item gets a TouchEvent.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.Interface.Events.TouchListener
Item myItem
TouchListener listener
myItem:AddTouchListener(listener)
myItem:RemoveTouchListener(listener)

RequestLayout()

This action requests that this Control should be laid out by its container (or the Layer2D if there is no containing Control) during the next Update.

RequestReloadGraphics()

This action requests that this Control (as well as all of its descendents) should reload their graphics during the next Update.

RequestVerticesUpdate()

This action informs the engine that this Item needs to recalculate its vertex values before they can be used (most commonly, to be drawn to the screen). Most users will never need to call this directly. If you are using a custom ShaderProgram with this Item, you can use this action to indicate that the shader mapping should reset the vertex values for this Item before its drawn again.

RequireSimulation(boolean flag)

This action sets the y-component of this item's linear velocity in units per second. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

  • boolean flag

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetLinearVelocityY(100)

ResetLayoutFlag()

This action is used to indicate that the Control no longer needs to be laid out. This is called internally by the system as needed, and shouldn't be necessary for most users.

ResetMass()

This action sets the mass, mass moment of inertia, and how the 2D item should move (via linear velocity) to be at the desired location.

Resize()

The Resize action is used to recalculate the size and position of Controls that are being controlled by a Layout. Calling Resize on an Item2D won't have a direct effect on it, but if the Item's children hierarchy contains any Controls, those Controls will be resized.

RightAlignContent()

This action aligns any content in the control to the right.

RightAlignTitle()

This action aligns the title on the form control to the right.

Rotate(number degrees)

Rotates this Item2D by the given number of degrees. This will also rotate all Items in the children hierarchy of this Item.

Parameters

  • number degrees

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item

Item myItem
myItem:Rotate(65)

Scale(number amount)

This action will multiply the current scaling value by the given number. A parameter of 0 or less will be ignored.

Parameters

  • number amount

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(100, 200)
myItem:SetScale(1.5)
myItem:Scale(1.1)

Scale(number xAmount, number yAmount)

This action will multiply the x scaling and y scaling values, respectively, by the given numbers. A parameter of 0 or less will be ignored.

Parameters

  • number xAmount
  • number yAmount

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(100, 200)
myItem:SetScale(1.5)
myItem:Scale(1.1, 0.9)

ScaleFromCenter(number amount)

This action will multiply the current scaling value by the given number. A parameter of 0 or less will be ignored. This action will increase or decrease the scale of the object from the center, and update the Item's x,y coordinates to reflect the new bottom-left corner of the Item.

Parameters

  • number amount

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(100, 200)
myItem:SetScale(1.5)
myItem:ScaleFromCenter(1.1)

ScaleFromCenter(number xAmount, number yAmount)

This action will multiply the current scaling values of the x and y planes by the given number. A parameter of 0 or less will be ignored. This action will increase or decrease the scale of the object from the center, and update the Item's x,y coordinates to reflect the new bottom-left corner of the Item.

Parameters

  • number xAmount
  • number yAmount

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(100, 200)
myItem:SetScale(1.5)
myItem:ScaleFromCenter(1.1, 0.9)

SelectByFirstLetters(text firstLetter)

This action selects an item in the Control using first letter navigation, if the Control supports it. If the Control doesn't support first letter navigation, this will do nothing.

Parameters

  • text firstLetter

SetAccentColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the accent color on the control.

Parameters

SetAcceptsMouseInput(boolean accepts)

This action sets whether or not this Item accepts mouse input. If set to true, this will intercept incoming mouse events, triggering any related MouseListeners and InputSets and preventing the mouse event from propagating to other Items on the Layer. The default value is true.

Parameters

  • boolean accepts: True to set this Item to receive mouse events, or false to ignore them.

SetAccessibilityCode(integer newAccessibilityCode)

This action changes the accessibility code for this Item. This should be done with care because setting the accessiblity code to the incorrect type can cause accessibility to stop functioning or, in some cases, cause the program to crash.

Parameters

  • integer newAccessibilityCode: the new accessibility code for this Item.

SetAccessibilityRoleDescription(text newRoleDescription)

This action sets a custom accessibility role description for this item. This should only be done if there is not a standard accessibility code for the type of item being implemented. If the item behaves very similarly to a standard control type, then set the accessibility code to that standard type while also setting the role description. For example, if implementing an item that extends Control, is keyboard focusable, and responds to activation via both mouse clicks and the Space key, like a button, but it shouldn't be described as a button, then set the accessibility code to BUTTON and the custom role description to whatever is appropriate. If there isn't a suitable accessibility code, or if in doubt, set the accessibility code to CUSTOM.

Parameters

  • text newRoleDescription: the new custom role description for this Item.

SetAngularDamping(number angularDamping)

This action gets the rotational inertia of this item. The inertia is in kilogram units squared.

Parameters

  • number angularDamping

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetMass(20)
number inertia = item:GetInertia()

SetAngularVelocity(number angularVelocity)

This action sets this item's angular velocity in radians per second. Physics must be enabled in this item before using this action.

Parameters

  • number angularVelocity: The angular velocity of this item in radians per second

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetAngularVelocity(0.1)

SetBackgroundColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the background color in the Control.

Parameters

SetBorderColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the border color of the control.

Parameters

SetBorderStyle(integer style)

This action sets the border style either, LayoutProperties.TOP, LayoutProperties.BOTTOM, LayoutProperties.LEFT, LayoutProperties.RIGHT, and LayoutProperties.ALL.

Parameters

  • integer style

SetBorderThickness(number value)

This action sets the border thickness on the control.

Parameters

  • number value: the border thickness.

SetBottomLeftPixelRounding(number value)

This action sets the bottom left pixel rounding value.

Parameters

  • number value: the bottom left pixel rounding value.

SetBottomLeftRounding(number value)

This action sets the bottom left rounding value.

Parameters

  • number value: the bottom left rounding value.

SetBottomMargin(number padding)

This action sets the bottom margin size. The bottom margin is the space outside of the bottom border.

Parameters

  • number padding: the amount of bottom margin.

SetBottomPadding(number padding)

This action sets the bottom padding size. The bottom padding is the space inside of the bottom border.

Parameters

  • number padding: the amount of bottom margin.

SetBottomRightPixelRounding(number value)

This action sets the bottom right pixel rounding value.

Parameters

  • number value: the bottom right pixel rounding value.

SetBottomRightRounding(number value)

This action sets the bottom right rounding value.

Parameters

  • number value: the bottom right rounding value.

SetBoundingBox(number newX, number newY, number newWidth, number newHeight)

This action will set the x coordinate, y coordinate, width, and height of the Item2D, respectively.

Parameters

  • number newX
  • number newY
  • number newWidth
  • number newHeight

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetBoundingBox(50, 200, 100, 75)

SetCenter(number setX, number setY)

This action will set the X and Y coordinates of the Item so that the center of the Item is located at the given X, Y coordinates.

Parameters

  • number setX
  • number setY

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
Item myItem
myItem:SetCenter(70, 40)

SetCenterX(number setX)

This action will set the X coordinate of the Item so that the center of the Item is aligned with the given X coordinate value.

Parameters

  • number setX

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
Item myItem
myItem:SetCenterX(70)

SetCenterY(number setY)

This action will set the Y coordinate of the Item so that the center of the Item is aligned with the given Y coordinate value.

Parameters

  • number setY

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
Item myItem
myItem:SetCenterY(65)

SetChildrenProcessingMouseEvents(boolean shouldProcess)

The SetChildrenProcessingMouseEvents action is used to set whether or not children items should receive mouse events if this Item is using custom drawing. This affects only custom drawing Items -- if the Item isn't drawing, children objects will always receive the mouse events first. This value is false by default. This is an advanced feature only necessary for complex custom components, and most users will not need to use this.

Parameters

  • boolean shouldProcess

SetClipCoordinates(Libraries.Game.Graphics.Painter2D painter)

This action sets the clipping coordinates of the given painter to respect the coordinates of this Item (if it's clipping) as well as any clipping being performed by parent Items. This action is called automatically by the Game engine as necessary, and most users will never need to use this action directly.

Parameters

SetClipping(boolean clip)

The SetClipping action is used to enable or disable clipping. If it is enabled, when the Item and its children are drawn as part of the QueueForDrawing action, any pixels that would be drawn outside of the unrotated dimensions of the Item are not rendered. In other words, the Item will only draw inside the exact rectangle formed by its x, y position and its width and height.

Parameters

  • boolean clip: True to enable pixel clipping, false to disable.

SetCollidable(boolean flag)

This action sets this item to be collidable. Passing true turns on collision for this item while passing false turns off collision for this item.

Parameters

  • boolean flag: Whether or not to turn collision on for this item

Example

use Libraries.Game.Graphics.Drawable

Drawable circle
circle:LoadFilledCircle(30)
circle:SetCollidable(true)

SetCollideWithChildren(boolean flag)

This action gets the position of the item in physics space from the previous frame. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action

Parameters

  • boolean flag

SetCollisionGroupFlag(boolean flag)

This action sets the total torque on this item. The units are kilogram units squared per second per second. This action should be used to set the total torque on this item. If we want to apply a torque to this item, we should use the ApplyTorque actions instead. Physics must be enabled on this action before using this action.

Parameters

  • boolean flag

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetTorque(200)

SetCollisionGroupIndex(integer index)

This action sets the total force on this item. The units are kilogram units per second per second. This action should be used to set the total force on this item. If we want to apply a force to this item, we should use the ApplyForce actions instead. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

  • integer index

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 force

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
force:Set(300, 350)
item:SetForce(force)

SetCollisionList(Libraries.Game.Collision.CollisionEdge2D edge)

This is an action used internally by the physics system to keep track of the collisions with this item in a linked list structure. This action sets the head of the linked list of collisions to the passed CollisionEdge2D object. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Parameters

SetColorProperty(text property, Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the color and property in the Control.

Parameters

SetContainerGridHeight(integer containerGridHeight)

This action sets how many rows this Control should be divided into when using a GridLayout. This will have no effect if this Control is not a container or if it is using a different layout. If this value is 0 or less, then the GridLayout will use its default grid height and ignore this value.

Parameters

  • integer containerGridHeight

SetContainerGridWidth(integer containerGridWidth)

This action sets how many columns this Control should be divided into when using a GridLayout. This will have no effect if this Control is not a container or if it is using a different layout. If this value is 0 or less, then the GridLayout will use its default grid width and ignore this value.

Parameters

  • integer containerGridWidth

SetCornerPixelRounding(number bottomLeft, number bottomRight, number topLeft, number topRight)

This action sets how much rounding to apply to the four corners of a rectangular control. This action takes the amount of rounding to apply as a number of pixels.

Parameters

  • number bottomLeft: The rounding value to be applied to the bottom left corner, in pixels.
  • number bottomRight: The rounding value to be applied to the bottom right corner, in pixels.
  • number topLeft: The rounding value to be applied to the top left corner, in pixels.
  • number topRight: The rounding value to be applied to the top right corner, in pixels.

SetCornerRounding(number bottomLeft, number bottomRight, number topLeft, number topRight)

This action sets how much rounding to apply to the four corners of a rectangular control. The expected values are between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates no rounding, and 1 indicates full rounding. (If all four corners are set to have full rounding, the result will appear to be a circle.)

Parameters

  • number bottomLeft: The rounding value to be applied to the bottom left corner (between 0 and 1).
  • number bottomRight: The rounding value to be applied to the bottom right corner (between 0 and 1).
  • number topLeft: The rounding value to be applied to the top left corner (between 0 and 1).
  • number topRight: The rounding value to be applied to the top right corner (between 0 and 1).

SetCustomDrawing(boolean isCustom)

The SetCustomDrawing action is used to indicate that this Item wants to directly manage how itself and its children are drawn. When this is set to true, the Item must be responsible for determining this rendering via the Draw(Painter2D) action -- if this action isn't overridden, the Item and its children won't be drawn. This is an advanced feature only necessary for complex custom components, and most users will not need to use this functionality.

Parameters

  • boolean isCustom: True if this Item should use custom drawing, or false to use default drawing rules.

SetDensity(number density)

This action applies an angular impulse to this item. The units are in kilogram units squared per second. This modifies the angular velocity of this item. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

  • number density

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:ApplyAngularImpulse(80)

SetDescription(text newDescription)

This action sets the internal description of the Item.

Parameters

  • text newDescription

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item

Item item
item:SetDescription("Used for demo purposes.")

SetFlipX(boolean flip)

This action will set the Item2D to be flipped across the X-axis according to the boolean. If the boolean value is false, the Item2D will be set to its unflipped state. If it is true, the Item will be set to its flipped state.

Parameters

  • boolean flip

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetFlipX(true)

SetFlipY(boolean flip)

This action will set the Item2D to be flipped across the Y-axis according to the boolean. If the boolean value is false, the Item2D will be set to its unflipped state. If it is true, the Item will be set to its flipped state.

Parameters

  • boolean flip

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetFlipY(true)

SetFocusBorderColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the focus border color.

Parameters

SetFocusColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the focus color.

Parameters

SetFocusFontColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets focus font color.

Parameters

SetFocusable(boolean focus)

The SetFocusable action sets whether or not this Item should be focusable. If the Item is currently focused and made unfocusable, then it will lose focus, and there will be no focused element.

Parameters

  • boolean focus

SetFont(Libraries.Game.Graphics.Font font)

This action sets the Font to be used by this Control. How this Font is used varies between Controls, and in some cases the Control will ignore it entirely (for example, ScrollPanes), but typically this sets the font that's used for the default label on many Controls, such as Buttons. If the Font is undefined, many Controls will omit their default label.

Parameters

SetFontColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the font color of the font contained in the Control.

Parameters

SetFontOutlineColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the font outline color value.

Parameters

SetFontOutlineThickness(number value)

This action sets the font outline thickness value.

Parameters

  • number value: the font outline thickness value.

SetFontSize(integer size)

This action sets the base Font size to be used by this Control, if the Control uses a Font.

Parameters

  • integer size

SetForce(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 force)

This action sets the total force on this item. The units are kilogram units per second per second. This action should be used to set the total force on this item. If we want to apply a force to this item, we should use the ApplyForce actions instead. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 force

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
force:Set(300, 350)
item:SetForce(force)

SetForegroundColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the foreground color in the Control.

Parameters

SetForegroundSelectionColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the foreground selection color in the Control.

Parameters

SetForm(Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form form)

This action sets the controls associated form.

Parameters

SetFriction(number friction)

This action applies a torque to this item. The units are kilogram units squared per second per second. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

  • number friction

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:ApplyTorque(350)

SetGlowColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the glow color on the control.

Parameters

SetGridHeight(integer gridHeight)

The SetGridHeight action sets how many cells in a column this Control occupies. By default, this value is 1. This value is only used for GridLayouts, and is ignored by other layouts.

Parameters

  • integer gridHeight

SetGridPosition(integer gridX, integer gridY)

This action sets this Control's cell coordinates within a GridLayout. This indicates which column and row this Control is located within. If the Control's parent container isn't using a GridLayout, these values are ignored.

Parameters

  • integer gridX
  • integer gridY

SetGridSize(integer gridWidth, integer gridHeight)

The SetGridSize action sets how many cells wide and tall this Control is within a grid. By default, each of these values are 1. These values are only used for GridLayouts, and are ignored by other layouts.

Parameters

  • integer gridWidth
  • integer gridHeight

SetGridWidth(integer gridWidth)

The SetGridWidth action sets how many cells in a row this Control occupies. By default, this value is 1. This value is only used for GridLayouts, and is ignored by other layouts.

Parameters

  • integer gridWidth

SetGridX(integer gridX)

This action sets this Control's cell x-coordinate within a GridLayout. This indicates which column this Control is located within. If the Control's parent container isn't using a GridLayout, this value is ignored.

Parameters

  • integer gridX

SetGridY(integer gridY)

This action sets this Control's cell y-coordinate within a GridLayout. This indicates which row this Control is located within. If the Control's parent container isn't using a GridLayout, this value is ignored.

Parameters

  • integer gridY

SetHasDefaultFocusOrdering(boolean hasDefaultFocusOrdering)

This action sets the default focus order flag.

Parameters

  • boolean hasDefaultFocusOrdering: true if a default focus order is set.

SetHasMoved(boolean flag)

This action returns the swept movement of this item used for time of impact solving for the physics system. This action is used internally and users should not need to call this action.

Parameters

  • boolean flag

SetHeight(number newHeight)

This action will set the height of the Item2D.

Parameters

  • number newHeight

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetHeight(70)

SetHorizontalLayoutMode(integer mode)

The SetHorizontalLayoutMode is used to determine how the width of a Control is calculated. It should be one of the following constants: STANDARD, which will calculate the width as a set number of pixels plus a percentage of the container's width. FILL, which will make the width fill the remaining width of the container. FIT_CONTENTS, which will calculate the width to fit the children contents.

Parameters

  • integer mode: A layout mode constant, one of STANDARD, FILL, or FILL_CONTENTS.

SetIcon(Libraries.Game.Graphics.TextureRegion icon)

This action sets the Icon used by this Control. Different Controls use this Icon differently, depending on their purpose.

Parameters

SetIconColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the Icon color on the control.

Parameters

SetInputGroup(text group)

This action sets the input group for this Item. When used with the Game libraries, this tag describes what InputTable (if any) can interact with this Item due to input.

Parameters

  • text group: The new input group to use.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item

Item item
item:SetInputGroup("arrowKeys")
output "My item's input group is : " + item:GetInputGroup()

SetInterfaceOptionsKey(text key)

This action returns the base Font size to be used by this Control, if the Control uses a Font.

Parameters

  • text key

SetInterfaceScale(number scale)

This action sets the interface scale for the control.

Parameters

  • number scale: a number between 0 and 1 that scales the control.

SetItem(integer index, Libraries.Interface.Item2D newItem)

This action sets a value inside the internal item array of this Item2D.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child1
Item2D child2
parentItem:Add(child1)
parentItem:SetItem(0, child2)

SetJointList(Libraries.Game.Physics.Joints.JointEdge2D edge)

This is an action used internally by the physics system to keep track of the joints connected to this item in a linked list structure. This action sets the head of the linked list of collisions to the passed CollisionEdge2D object. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Parameters

SetLabelText(text labelText)

This action sets the text in this Control's label, if it has one.

Parameters

  • text labelText: The text to use for this Control's label.

SetLayer(Libraries.Game.Layer2D parentLayer)

This action is used by the Game libraries to create a reference to the layer that this Item2D exists on. It is automatically called as needed by the Layer2Dclass. Most users will never need to use this action directly.

Parameters

SetLayout(Libraries.Interface.Layouts.Layout layout)

This action adds a different Item2D into this one. This makes a few things happen. 1. The added item will get this item as its parent. 2. The added item's x and y coordinates will become relative to this Item. 3. Most actions on this Item will also affect the added Item.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D parentItem
Item2D child
parentItem:Add(child)

SetLayoutRows(number layoutRows)

This action sets how many rows this element should occupy, if the layout supports it. This effectively makes the control taller. This is most commonly used in conjunction with FormRowLayout (or StackedRowPage which uses that layout).

Parameters

  • number layoutRows

SetLeftMargin(number padding)

This action sets the left margin size. The left margin is the space outside of the left border.

Parameters

  • number padding: the amount of left margin.

SetLeftPadding(number padding)

This action sets the left padding size. The left padding is the space inside of the left border.

Parameters

  • number padding: the amount of left margin.

SetLinearDamping(number linearDamping)

Given a point relative to the center of this item, this action computes and returns that point in screen coordinates.

Parameters

  • number linearDamping

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 localPoint

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:SetPosition(400, 250)

localPoint:Set(0, 0)    // Get the coordinates of the center of the item

Vector2 worldPoint = item:GetWorldPoint(localPoint)

SetLinearVelocity(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 linearVelocity)

This action sets the linear velocity of this item in units per second. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 velocity

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
velocity:Set(100, 0)
item:SetLinearVelocity(velocity)

SetLinearVelocityX(number linearVelocityX)

This action sets the x-component of this item's linear velocity in units per second. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

  • number linearVelocityX: The x-component of this item's linear velocity in units per second

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetLinearVelocityX(100)

SetLinearVelocityY(number linearVelocityY)

This action sets the y-component of this item's linear velocity in units per second. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

  • number linearVelocityY: The y-component of this item's linear velocity in units per second

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetLinearVelocityY(100)

SetMass(number mass)

This action is used to syncronize the item's position in physics space with its position in the tree used for broadphase collision. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Parameters

  • number mass

SetMass(Libraries.Game.Physics.Mass2D mass)

This action sets the position of the item in physics space from the previous frame. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Parameters

SetMouseDownColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the mouse down color.

Parameters

SetMouseDownFontColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the mouse down font color.

Parameters

SetMouseDownGlowColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the mouse down glow color.

Parameters

SetMouseOverColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the mouse over color.

Parameters

SetMouseOverFontColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the mouse over font color.

Parameters

SetMouseOverGlowColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the mouse over glow color.

Parameters

SetName(text newName)

This action sets the internal name of the Item.

Parameters

  • text newName

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item

Item item
item:SetName("My Item")

SetNextFocus(Libraries.Interface.Item next)

This action sets the next focus item. When this Item has the focus and the user requests the focus to advance (e.g. by pressing the tab key), the focus will move to the next focus item, if it is defined.

Parameters

SetNonResponsive()

This action returns all of the broadphase nodes attached to this item in an array. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

SetNumberProperty(text property, number value)

This action sets a generic property with a specified name and number value.

Parameters

  • text property: the property name.
  • number value: the number value for the generic property.

SetOffset(number xAmount, number yAmount, number zAmount)

This action will set X, Y, and Z offsets of the item, respectively.

Parameters

  • number xAmount
  • number yAmount
  • number zAmount

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetOffset(100, 75, 2)

SetOffset(number xAmount, number yAmount)

This action will set both the X and Y offsets of the item, respectively.

Parameters

  • number xAmount
  • number yAmount

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetOffset(100, 75)

SetOffsetX(number xAmount)

This action sets the X offset of the Item. The offset tells the Item where to relate its X position to. In other words, the X offset is where an X coordinate of 0 is for this Item. This is automatically set when using an action to add an Item to another Item.

Parameters

  • number xAmount

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetOffsetX(100)

SetOffsetY(number yAmount)

This action sets the Y offset of the item. The offset tells the Item where to relate its Y position to. In other words, the Y offset is where a Y coordinate of 0 is for this item. This is automatically set when using an action to add an Item to another Item.

Parameters

  • number yAmount

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetOffsetY(75)

SetOffsetZ(number zAmount)

This action sets the Z offset of the item. The offset tells the Item where to relate its Z position to. In other words, the Z offset is where a Z coordinate of 0 is for this item. This is automatically set when using an action to add an Item to another Item.

Parameters

  • number zAmount

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetOffsetZ(75)

SetOrigin(number setX, number setY)

This action will set the origin of the Item to be at the given location in the Item. This is used when projecting the Item's vertices onto the screen, i.e. when determining where to draw a picture on the screen.

Parameters

  • number setX
  • number setY

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetOrigin(20, 20)

SetOriginCenter()

This action will set the origin of the Item to be at the current center of the Item's width and height bounds.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(50, 80)
myItem:SetOriginCenter()

SetParent(Libraries.Interface.Item2D newItem)

This action sets a reference to the parent item. It is called automatically when an Item2D is added as a child to another Item2D. Most users will not need to use this action directly.

Parameters

SetPercentageHeight(number height)

This action sets the height of the Control relative to the size of its container, if the container's Layout supports it.

Parameters

  • number height: The target height as a percentage (as a value between 0.0 and 1.0) of the container's height.

SetPercentageOriginX(number x)

This action sets the x-coordinate of the "origin" of the Control, as a percentage of its width. The origin is the point that the Control is positioned by. For example, by default, the origin is at 0% x and 0% y, or the bottom-left corner of the Control. Changing the percentage origin x and y to 0.5 (50%) would mean the Control should be positioned using its center instead. The origin point is used by layouts that allow for specific positioning, such as ManualLayout or GridLayout. It is ignored by layouts that have special positioning rules, such as FlowLayout.

Parameters

  • number x

SetPercentageOriginY(number y)

This action sets the y-coordinate of the "origin" of the Control, as a percentage of its width. The origin is the point that the Control is positioned by. For example, by default, the origin is at 0% x and 0% y, or the bottom-left corner of the Control. Changing the percentage origin x and y to 0.5 (50%) would mean the Control should be positioned using its center instead. The origin point is used by layouts that allow for specific positioning, such as ManualLayout or GridLayout. It is ignored by layouts that have special positioning rules, such as FlowLayout.

Parameters

  • number y

SetPercentageWidth(number width)

This action sets the width of the Control relative to the size of its container, if the container's Layout supports it.

Parameters

  • number width: The target width as a percentage (as a value between 0.0 and 1.0) of the container's width.

SetPercentageX(number x)

This action sets the x position of the Control relative to the size of its container, if the container's Layout supports it.

Parameters

  • number x: The target x position as a percentage (as a value between 0.0 and 1.0) of the container's width.

SetPercentageY(number y)

This action sets the y position of the Control relative to the size of its container, if the container's Layout supports it.

Parameters

  • number y: The target y position as a percentage (as a value between 0.0 and 1.0) of the container's width.

SetPhysicsProperties(Libraries.Game.Physics.PhysicsProperties2D properties)

This action is used to get the bounding box of the item. A bounding box is an axis-alligned rectangle containing the shape used for broadphase collision. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Parameters

SetPixelHeight(number height)

This action sets the height of the Control in pixels, if the container's Layout supports it. If the Control has also been set to use a percentage of the container's height to set the height, then the two values will be added together.

Parameters

  • number height: The target height of this Control in pixels.

SetPixelWidth(number width)

This action sets the width of the Control in pixels, if the container's Layout supports it. If the Control has also been set to use a percentage of the container's width to set the width, then the two values will be added together.

Parameters

  • number width

SetPixelX(number x)

This action sets the x position of the Control in pixels, if the container's Layout supports it. If the Control has also been set to use a percentage of the container's width to set the x position, then the two values will be added together.

Parameters

  • number x: The target x position of this Control in pixels.

SetPixelY(number y)

This action sets the y position of the Control in pixels, if the container's Layout supports it. If the Control has also been set to use a percentage of the container's height to set the y position, then the two values will be added together.

Parameters

  • number y: The target y position of this Control in pixels.

SetPopupMenu(Libraries.Interface.Controls.PopupMenu menu)

The SetPopupMenu action attaches a PopupMenu to this Control, which can be opened by interacting with it (most commonly by right-clicking on the Control).

Parameters

SetPosition(number setX, number setY)

This action will set both the X coordinate and the Y coordinate of the Item, in that order.

Parameters

  • number setX
  • number setY

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
Item myItem
myItem:SetPosition(30, 70)

SetPosition(number setX, number setY, number setZ)

This action will set both the X and Y coordinates of this Item2D, and will additionally set the Z value of this Item2D.

Parameters

  • number setX
  • number setY
  • number setZ

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetPosition(30, 70, 3)

SetPreviousFocus(Libraries.Interface.Item previous)

This action sets the previous focus item. When this Item has the focus and the user requests the focus to move backwards (e.g. by pressing shift & tab), the focus will move to the previous focus item, if it is defined.

Parameters

SetProperty(text key, Libraries.Data.Formats.JavaScriptObjectNotation value)

Parameters

SetResponsive()

This action determines whether this item is collidable.

Example

use Libraries.Game.Graphics.Drawable

Drawable circle
circle:LoadFilledCircle(30)
circle:SetCollidable(true)
boolean result = circle:IsCollidable

SetResponsiveness(integer type)

This action returns the mass of the item in kilograms. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action. If the item is non-responsive or unmovable, the mass is zero.

Parameters

  • integer type

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetMass(20)
number mass = item:GetMass()

SetRestitution(number restitution)

This action applies a force to this item at the passed point. The force is in kilogram units per second per second. The point is the screen coordinates where the point will be applied. If the point is not on the center of the item, then a torque will be introduced causing the item to rotate. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

  • number restitution

Example

use Libraries.Compute.Vector2
use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item
Vector2 force
Vector2 point

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)

force:Set(300, 350)
point:Set(100, 100)    // apply the force to the top right corner of the item

item:ApplyForce(force, point)

SetRightMargin(number padding)

This action sets the right margin size. The right margin is the space outside of the right border.

Parameters

  • number padding: the amount of right margin.

SetRightPadding(number padding)

This action sets the right padding size. The right padding is the space inside of the right border.

Parameters

  • number padding: the amount of right margin.

SetRotation(number degrees)

Sets this Item2D to be rotated to an angle of the given number of degrees. This will also rotate all Items in the children hierarchy of this Item.

Parameters

  • number degrees

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetRotation(90)

SetScale(number scale)

This action sets the scale of this Item2D, causing the vertices of the item to be calculated based on a scaled percentage of the width and height. The default scaling values are 1.0, or 100% of the Item's width and height.

Parameters

  • number scale

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(100, 200)
myItem:SetScale(1.25)

SetScale(number newX, number newY)

This action sets separate scaling values for the x and y planes on this Item2D. This will cause the vertices of this Item to be calculated based on a scaled percentage of the width and height. The default scaling values are 1.0, or 100% of the Item's width and height.

Parameters

  • number newX
  • number newY

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(100, 200)
myItem:SetScale(1.5, 0.75)

SetScaleFromCenter(number scale)

This action sets the scale of this Item2D, causing the vertices of the item to be calculated based on a scaled percentage of the width and height. The default scaling values are 1.0, or 100% of the Item's width and height. This action will increase or decrease the scale of the object from the center, and update the Item's x,y coordinates to reflect the new bottom-left corner of the Item.

Parameters

  • number scale

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(100, 200)
myItem:SetScaleFromCenter(1.25)

SetScaleFromCenter(number newX, number newY)

This action sets separate scaling values for the x and y planes on this Item2D. This will cause the vertices of this Item to be calculated based on a scaled percentage of the width and height. The default scaling values are 1.0, or 100% of the Item's width and height. This action will increase or decrease the scale of the object from the center, and update the Item's x,y coordinates to reflect the new bottom-left corner of the Item.

Parameters

  • number newX
  • number newY

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(100, 200)
myItem:SetScaleFromCenter(1.5, 0.75)

SetScaleX(number scaleX)

This action sets the scaling value of the x plane on this Item2D. This will cause the vertices of this Item to be calculated based on a scaled percentage of the width. The default scaling values are 1.0, or 100% of the Item's width and height.

Parameters

  • number scaleX

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(100, 200)
myItem:SetScaleX(1.5)

SetScaleY(number scaleY)

This action sets the scaling value of the y plane on this Item2D. This will cause the vertices of this Item to be calculated based on a scaled percentage of the height. The default scaling values are 1.0, or 100% of the Item's width and height.

Parameters

  • number scaleY

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(100, 200)
myItem:SetScaleY(0.75)

SetScreenPositionFromPhysicsPosition()

This item returns the collision shape of this item. The collision shape is the shape the collision system will use to test for collisions with this item. Note that this may be different from the shape drawn on the screen.

Example

use Libraries.Game.Drawable
use Libraries.Game.Collision.Shapes.Circle

Drawable ball
ball:Load("ball.png")
Circle circle
circle:SetRadius(30)
ball:SetShape(circle)
CollisionShape2D shape = ball:GetShape()

SetSelectionBorderColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the selection border color.

Parameters

SetSelectionColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the selection color on the control.

Parameters

SetSelectionFontColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the selection font color on the control.

Parameters

SetShadowColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the shaddow color on the control.

Parameters

SetShadowEdgeFade(number value)

This action sets the shadow edge fade percent. A value between 0 and 1.

Parameters

  • number value: the shadow edge fade percent.

SetShadowHeight(number value)

This action sets the shadow height percent. A value between 0 and 1.

Parameters

  • number value: the shadow height.

SetShadowWidth(number value)

This action sets the shadow width percent. A value between 0 and 1.

Parameters

  • number value: the shadow width.

SetShadowX(number value)

This action sets the shadow X value.

Parameters

  • number value: the shadow X value.

SetShadowY(number value)

This action sets the shadow Y value.

Parameters

  • number value: the shadow Y value.

SetShape(Libraries.Game.Collision.Shapes.CollisionShape2D shape)

This action sets the collision shape of this item. The collision shape is the shape the collision system will use to test for collisions with this item. Note that this may be different from the shape drawn on the screen. A copy of the passed shape is used for the collison shape for this item.

Parameters

Example

use Libraries.Game.Drawable
use Libraries.Game.Collision.Shapes.Circle

Drawable ball
ball:Load("ball.png")
Circle circle
circle:SetRadius(30)
ball:SetShape(circle)

SetSize(number newWidth, number newHeight)

This action will set the width and height of the Item2D, respectively.

Parameters

  • number newWidth
  • number newHeight

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D myItem
myItem:SetSize(100, 50)

SetSkipLabelsInFocus(boolean skipLabelsInFocus)

This action sets the default skip label in focus flag.

Parameters

  • boolean skipLabelsInFocus: true if the skip labels in focus.

SetSleepTime(number time)

This action enables physics for this item. Passing true turns on physics for this item while passing false turns off physics for this item.

Parameters

  • number time

Example

use Libraries.Game.Graphics.Drawable

Drawable circle
circle:LoadFilledCircle(30)
circle:EnablePhysics(true)

SetTitle(text title)

This action sets the title of the form control.

Parameters

  • text title: The text value to set the title of the control to.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page

class Main
    action Main
        Form form
        Page page = form:GetMainPage()
        page:SetTitle("my title")

        form:Display()
    end
end

SetTitleFontSize(integer size)

This action sets the font size of the title on the form control.

Parameters

  • integer size: The integer value to set the font size of the controls title.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page

class Main
    action Main
        Form form
        Page page = form:GetMainPage()
        page:SetTitle("my title")
        page:SetTitleFontSize(18)

        form:Display()
    end
end

SetTitleSizeHuge()

This action sets the font size of the title on the form control to the default huge size.

SetTitleSizeLarge()

This action sets the font size of the title on the form control to the default large size.

SetTitleSizeMedium()

This action sets the font size of the title on the form control to the default medium size.

SetTitleSizeSmall()

This action sets the font size of the title on the form control to the default small size.

SetTitleSizeTiny()

This action sets the font size of the title on the form control to the default tiny size.

SetToDefaultFontSize()

This action sets the font size to the system's specified default size for Forms. By default, this is font size 20, the same as the medium font size.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button

Form form
Page page = form:GetMainPage()

Button button = page:AddButton("Click for Bacon")
button:SetToDefaultFontSize()

form:Display()

SetToHugeFont()

This action sets the font size to the system's specified "huge" size for Forms. By default, this is font size 60.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button

Form form
Page page = form:GetMainPage()

Button button = page:AddButton("Click for Bacon")
button:SetToHugeFont()

form:Display()

SetToLargeFont()

This action sets the font size to the system's specified "large" size for Forms. By default, this is font size 32.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button

Form form
Page page = form:GetMainPage()

Button button = page:AddButton("Click for Bacon")
button:SetToLargeFont()

form:Display()

SetToMediumFont()

This action sets the font size to the system's specified "medium" size. By default, this is font size 20.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button

Form form
Page page = form:GetMainPage()

Button button = page:AddButton("Click for Bacon")
button:SetToMediumFont()

form:Display()

SetToSmallFont()

This action sets the font size to the system's specified "small" size. By default, this is font size 14.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button

Form form
Page page = form:GetMainPage()

Button button = page:AddButton("Click for Bacon")
button:SetToSmallFont()

form:Display()

SetToTinyFont()

This action sets the font size to the system's specified "tiny" size. By default, this is font size 10.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Form
use Libraries.Interface.Forms.Page
use Libraries.Interface.Controls.Button

Form form
Page page = form:GetMainPage()

Button button = page:AddButton("Click for Bacon")
button:SetToTinyFont()

form:Display()

SetTopLeftPixelRounding(number value)

This action sets the top left pixel rounding value.

Parameters

  • number value: the top left pixel rounding value.

SetTopLeftRounding(number value)

This action sets the top left rounding value.

Parameters

  • number value: the top left rounding value.

SetTopMargin(number padding)

This action sets the top margin size. The top margin is the space outside of the top border.

Parameters

  • number padding: the amount of top margin.

SetTopPadding(number padding)

This action sets the top padding size. The top padding is the space inside of the top border.

Parameters

  • number padding: the amount of top margin.

SetTopRightPixelRounding(number value)

This action sets the top right pixel rounding value.

Parameters

  • number value: the top right pixel rounding value.

SetTopRightRounding(number value)

This action sets the top right rounding value.

Parameters

  • number value: the top right rounding value.

SetTorque(number torque)

This action sets the total torque on this item. The units are kilogram units squared per second per second. This action should be used to set the total torque on this item. If we want to apply a torque to this item, we should use the ApplyTorque actions instead. Physics must be enabled on this action before using this action.

Parameters

  • number torque

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D

Item2D item

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
item:SetTorque(200)

SetTransform(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 position, number angle)

This action is used internally by the physics system to set the position of this item in the physics world. This action is used internally and users users should not need to use this action.

Parameters

  • Libraries.Compute.Vector2: The vector representing the position of the center of the item in physics space
  • number angle: The rotation in radians of the item in physics space

SetTransform(Libraries.Game.Collision.PhysicsPosition2D transform)

This action sets the position of the item in physical space. This action is used internally and should not be used by users to set the position of this item on the screen.

Parameters

SetTransform0(Libraries.Game.Collision.PhysicsPosition2D transform)

This action sets the position of the item in physics space from the previous frame. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

Parameters

SetUnfocusedSelectionBorderColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the unfocused selection border color.

Parameters

SetUnfocusedSelectionColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the unfocused selection color on the control.

Parameters

SetUnfocusedSelectionFontColor(Libraries.Game.Graphics.ColorGroup value)

This action sets the unfocused selection font color on the control.

Parameters

SetUnmovable()

This action destroys the nodes for this item for the broadphase collision, essentially removing it from the collision detection system. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

SetUpdateTransform(boolean flag)

This item is used to test whether a passed point is on the collision shape of this item.

Parameters

  • boolean flag

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Drawable
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Drawable circle
circle:LoadFilledCircle(30)
circle:SetPosition(350, 400)
Vector2 point
point:Set(365, 410)
boolean result = circle:TestPoint(point)

SetVerticalLayoutMode(integer mode)

The GetVerticalLayoutMode is used to determine how the height of a Control is calculated. It should be one of the following constants: STANDARD, which will calculate the height as a set number of pixels plus a percentage of the container's height. FILL, which will make the height fill the remaining height of the container. FIT_CONTENTS, which will calculate the height to fit the children contents. FIT_FONT, which will fit the height of the Control to the line height of the Font set in this LayoutProperties.

Parameters

  • integer mode: A layout mode constant, one of STANDARD, FILL, FILL_CONTENTS, or FIT_FONT.

SetView2D(Libraries.Interface.Views.View2D content)

The IsClipping action returns true if pixel clipping is enabled, or false if it is disabled. If it is enabled, when the Item and its children are drawn as part of the QueueForDrawing action, any pixels that would be drawn outside of the unrotated dimensions of the Item are not rendered. In other words, the Item will only draw inside the exact rectangle formed by its x, y position and its width and height.

Parameters

SetWidth(number newWidth)

This action will set the width of the Item2D.

Parameters

  • number newWidth

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetWidth(50)

SetX(number setX)

This action sets the X coordinate of the Item.

Parameters

  • number setX

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetX(35.0)

SetY(number setY)

This action sets the Y coordinate of the Item.

Parameters

  • number setY

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetY(210.0)

SetZ(number setZ)

This action sets the Z value of the Item2D. For Item2D, the z value is used during layer sorting to determine ordering, where lower z values will be placed first.

Parameters

  • number setZ

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
Item2D myItem
myItem:SetZ(3)

ShouldCollide(Libraries.Interface.Item2D otherItem)

get the old target global center of the object

Parameters

Return

boolean:

Show()

This action is used to indicate that an Item and all Items that were added to it should be visible on the screen. Note that the Item class on its own cannot be drawn on the screen, but classes that inherit from it such as Libraries.Game.Graphics.Drawable can be. By default, Items are considered visible.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item

Item item
item:Show()

Simulate(boolean flag)

This action sets the linear velocity of this item in units per second. Physics must be enabled on this item before using this action.

Parameters

  • boolean flag

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item2D
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Item2D item
Vector2 velocity

item:SetWidth(100)
item:SetHeight(100)
item:EnablePhysics(true)
velocity:Set(100, 0)
item:SetLinearVelocity(velocity)

SynchronizeNodes()

This action is used to syncronize the item's position in physics space with its position in the tree used for broadphase collision. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

SynchronizeTransform()

This action is used to update this items position in physics space after physics solving is finished for this item. This action is used internally and users should not need to use this action.

TestPoint(Libraries.Compute.Vector2 point)

This item is used to test whether a passed point is on the collision shape of this item.

Parameters

Return

boolean: True if the passed point is on the collisoin shape, false otherwise

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Drawable
use Libraries.Compute.Vector2

Drawable circle
circle:LoadFilledCircle(30)
circle:SetPosition(350, 400)
Vector2 point
point:Set(365, 410)
boolean result = circle:TestPoint(point)

Update(number secondsSinceUpdate)

This action updates the item. It takes a number parameter that should indicate how many seconds have passed since the last time this action was called. This action does nothing in the Item class, but any class that inherits from Item may override it.

Parameters

  • number secondsSinceUpdate: The number of seconds that have passed since the last time Update was called.

Example

use Libraries.Interface.Item
use Libraries.System.DateTime

class Main is Item

    action Main
        // We'll use a DateTime object to count seconds.
        DateTime time
        number currentTime = time:GetEpochTime()
        number newTime = 0

        repeat while GetX() < 300
            // Check what the time is now.
            newTime = time:GetEpochTime()

            // Calculate how many seconds have passed, then call Update.
            Update( (newTime - currentTime)/1000 )

            // Store the old time.
            currentTime = newTime
        end
    end

    // Our update action will move our Item to the right at 200 units a second.
    action Update(number secondsSinceUpdate)
        SetX(GetX() + 200 * secondsSinceUpdate)
    end
end

UpdateAll(number seconds)

Update all behaviors elements.

Parameters

  • number seconds

UpdateTransformAngle()

This action is used internally by the physics system to set the position of this item in the physics world. This action is used internally and users users should not need to use this action.

UpdateTransformX()

This action sets the position of the item in physical space. This action is used internally and should not be used by users to set the position of this item on the screen.

UpdateTransformY()

This action returns the position of the item in physical space. This acction is used internally and should not be used by users to get the position of this item on the screen.