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Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2016 13:17**

I am working on a mod that hopefully makes working with Formspecs more enjoyable. It gives you more of a programming interface to formspecs rather than just concatenating a bunch of strings. It does some basic auto vertical positioning of elements within the form as well as auto form sizing. Hopefully the auto positioning will get more advanced and I am going to make this work with all formspec elements. View the README on GitHub to see what it currently supports.

Example:

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Code: Select all: local form = FormSpec({name="dialog"}) form.callback = function(self,player,fields) if fields.chat then minetest.chat_send_player(player:get_player_name(),fields.txt) end end local txt = Field({name="txt",label="Enter Text"}) local button = Button({name="chat",label="Chat"}) local button2 = Button({exit=true,name="exit",label="Close"}) form:add(txt) form:add(button) form:add(button2) form:show(player)

Minecraft Style Inventory

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Code: Select all: local form = FormSpec({name="minecraft_inventory"}) form:add(Image({left=1,top=0.6,width=1,height=2,texture="player.png"})) form:add(PlayerInventory({left=0,top=3.5})) form:add(CraftInventory({left=3,top=0})) form:add(List({inv="current_player",list="craftpreview",left=7,top=1})) form:show(player:get_player_name()) --[[OLD FORMSPEC WAY size[8,7.5;] image[1,0.6;1,2;player.png] list[current_player;main;0,3.5;8,4;] list[current_player;craft;3,0;3,3;] list[current_player;craftpreview;7,1;1,1;] ]]

License: LGPL 2.1
Source: https://github.com/bremaweb/formspec

Posted: **Thu Jul 28, 2016 18:33**

Looks good - I was planning on having auto resizing layouts in smartfs, but never got around to it.

It might be cool to allow registering callbacks on objects, like:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

Code: Select all: button1:click(function(name, fields) end)

makes code nicer

Posted: **Fri Jul 29, 2016 08:55**

That's a very good idea to have such Framework. I start thinking of some stuff for item/group selection and display (for use in filters for example).

Posted: **Fri Jul 29, 2016 09:09**

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2016 08:03**

I'm working on a mod with several formspecs.

And I'm bored of having to write many ...on_receive_fields stuff and so on. So I may add many helpers in your Framework.

What are the plans for your Framework ? Are you working on it ? (I'd like to avoid double work :) )

Posted: **Mon Aug 08, 2016 13:38**

I am still working on it. I don't have any solid plans or goals for it. If you want to fork it and add your helpers that is welcome. It's not documented on the readme but I added a Dialog helper to make a simple text dialog with one button. I plan on more of those types of helpers and special classes.

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

Code: Select all: --Dialog returns a FormSpec object local d = Dialog('form_name','Text to display in the dialog','Button Label') -- if you want to add a callback for the form that can go here --d.callback = function(player,fields) ... end d:show("player_name")

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