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

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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 from building the eboots).

Great news for a highly addictive game!

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... :)

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()

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

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

Gunntims0103 has already created an eboot for it, check out

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

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

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

:) it says "Ectasy"

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