J.C update to blog:Sneak Peek At Druglord New UI

[gunntims0103]

news via J.C (http://www.freewebs.com/jnjc/pspdruglord.htm)

Heres what J.C had to say-

Here is a sneak peek at some of the changes I have made to the Druglord UI.........

http://www.freewebs.com/jnjc/dl.JPG

Druglord Changelog

I am currently working on a new release of PSP DrugLord. The next release should contain the following:

* Improved performance
* Changes to the GUI
* Bug fixes
* Improved game logic
* Splash screen
* High score table

In the mean time you can download eboots for the beta version at the link below (thanks to gunntims0103 (http://www.freewebs.com/gunntims0103/) from building the eboots).

Great news for a highly addictive game!

[Shadowblind]

What a morally corrupt sounding game...

The UI looks extremely amazing for a LUA game. Any chance you could make a FFVII or Klonoa clone with this kind of UI? It would be awesome to have a weapon shop and such... :)

[JNJC]

The UI is a separate set of libraries that can run independently. It supports a variety of widget types including:

AlertBox
Messagebox
Dialog Box
Selection list
Buttons
Numeric Entry
Images
Sounds
Shapes
Gradients

The initial release of these had some performance issues but I have all but fixed those now and a new version will be released as part of the Druglord release.


To create a button you do:

Btnalert = Button("name","parent","QuickClickKey",width,"label",X,Y)

The following is an example of how to use the widgets:

require("luaWidgets.lua")


ClearScreen()

Btnalert = Button("BtnAlert","main","t",90,"Show Alertbox",40,80)

Btnalert.OnClick = function()
AlertBox("Information","This is an example of an alert-box","now")

end

Btndialog = Button("Dialog","main","c",90,"Show Dialog",40,100)

Btndialog.OnClick = function()
diaTest = DialogBox("diaTest","main",435,165,"Dialog Test")
diaTest:View()

btnExit = Button("BtnExit","diaTest","c",65,"Exit",10,160)
btnExit.OnClick = function(self) diaTest:Hide() end

end

Btnexit = Button("Btnexit","main","s",90,"Exit",40,120)

Btnexit.OnClick = function()
gWaitForExit = true;
end

WaitForEvent()

[dlowings]

Dude, I LOVE this game... I use to play it for HOURS on the PC.. its a total bummer that its a LUA game :( any chance that you can just make it a straight eboot ? a lot of us dont like to run LUA

[Mr. Shizzy]

Great release!! :D
I've always got a kick out of this game. :)

[JNJC]

Gunntims0103 has already created an eboot for it, check out

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46345

[baracki96]

A bit sketchy, but awesome nonetheless. Good work to the coder.

[vision]

Hmm how come i havent heard of this game before..*downloading guntimms eboot*

[Gene]

:) it says "Ectasy"

[Mc_Logical]

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[JNJC]

it says "Ectasy"

Well spotted I'll add it to the bug list ......

[dejkirkby]

I cannot wait for this. The beta is the most played on homebrew I have and I championed a new release. Thanks JNJC.

[digihoe]

I have played the beta numerous hours, what is the highest title you can get? I have gotten to Drug Baron (55 days), is Drug Lord the last title, if so how much cash do you need to become Drug Lord?

I'm looking forward to a highscore function, upto now I have taken a screenshoot.

The bug I hate most are the one where you drugs disappear, so you can not sell them, but they are still in memory so that they effect the total amount of units... This bug happens mostly when I have many diffrent types of units, will this bug be fixed?

I really love this game, great work!

Best regards!

[pr3dator2]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3000-PSP-Retro...QQcmdZViewItem

check it out guys i got many many copies like 20+ add me on msn if u want a copy or just bid !!

[email protected]

[blaz3d]

great work j.c ive played druglord scince you first released it and it is my fave psp homebrew game.

one request though, if the cops are chasing you with empty pockets, you should be able to be stopped and searched with out any repurcussions. this was a feature in dopewars.

anyway great to hear your picking up development, keep up the hard work!

[Shinatako]

"you have killed they all" might wanna take a look at that

[JNJC]

Noted. If you guys see more of these let me know, it all helps......

[pstylez]

raw shit101

[fugazi]

I download the lunaplayer 2.0 for my psp 1.5 and put the druglord file into applications but it gives me a error unable to find widgets/lua and then underneath that it says unable to find /s/file? or something like that can anyone who has a 1.5 zip help me out? thanks!

[guntimsunderstudy]

ok one yes the UI is great 2nd zomg OD drug use 3rd omfg i fell off my bike today