buttons and stuff

editor/ui.lua

@@ -3,16 +3,30 @@ local ui = {}
 ui.theme = {
     bg          = {0.13, 0.13, 0.14},
     panel       = {0.17, 0.17, 0.19},
-    border      = {0.28, 0.28, 0.30},
+    border      = {0.28, 0.28, 0.30}, -- also known as outline
     borderwidth = 3,
     text        = {0.90, 0.90, 0.90},
-    text_dim    = {0.50, 0.50, 0.55},
+    text_dim    = {0.50, 0.50, 0.55}, -- low-key forgot
-    accent      = {0.27, 0.52, 0.90},
+    accent      = {0.27, 0.52, 0.90}, -- low-key also forgot
     hover       = {0.22, 0.22, 0.25},
-    active      = {0.20, 0.40, 0.75},
+    active      = {0.20, 0.40, 0.75}, -- i low-key forgot again
 }
 
-function ui.panel(x, y, w, h)
+ui.events = {}
+
+function ui.emit(event)
+    ui.events[event] = true
+end
+
+function ui.on(event)
+    return ui.events[event] == true
+end
+
+function ui.flush()
+    ui.events = {}
+end
+
+function ui.panel(x, y, w, h) -- this thingy magic panel creator makes a ui with outline. (x pos, y pos, width, height)
     love.graphics.setColor(ui.theme.panel)
     love.graphics.rectangle("fill", x, y, w, h)
     love.graphics.setColor(ui.theme.border)
@@ -20,8 +34,30 @@ function ui.panel(x, y, w, h)
     love.graphics.rectangle("line", x, y, w, h)
 end
 
-function ui.button()
+function ui.button(x, y, w, h, text)
-    
+    local mousex, mousey = love.mouse.getPosition()
+    local hovered = mousex > x and mousex < x + w and mousey > y and mousey < y + h -- calculaters if its touching the box
+    if hovered then
+        love.graphics.setColor(ui.theme.hover)
+        love.graphics.rectangle("fill", x, y , w, h)
+        love.graphics.setColor(ui.theme.border)
+        love.graphics.setLineWidth(ui.theme.borderwidth)
+        love.graphics.rectangle("line", x, y ,w, h)
+        love.graphics.setColor(ui.theme.text)
+        love.graphics.printf(text, x, y + h/2-7, w, "center")
+    else
+        -- makes a panel and then just adds text to it
+        ui.panel(x, y, w, h)
+        love.graphics.setColor(ui.theme.text)
+        love.graphics.printf(text, x, y + h/2-7, w, "center")
     end
     
+    if hovered and love.mouse.isDown(1) then
+        ui.emit(text)  -- uses button label as event name for now, change later to avoid same ID stuff
+    end
+
+    return hovered -- returns hovered
+end
+
+
 return ui

main.lua

@@ -5,9 +5,13 @@ function love.load()
 end
 
 function love.update(dt)
-    
+    ui.flush()
 end
 
 function love.draw()
     ui.panel(50,50,50,50)
+    local test = ui.button(100,200,100,100,"hello world")
+    if ui.on("hello world") then -- detect if the button is pressed. 
+        ui.panel(250,250,250,250)
+    end
 end