basalt ​

This is the UI Manager and the starting point for your project. The following functions allow you to influence the default behavior of Basalt.

Before you can access Basalt, you need to add the following code on top of your file:What this code does is it loads basalt into the project, and you can access it by using the variable defined as "basalt".

Functions ​

basalt.create(type, properties?) ​

Creates and returns a new UI element of the specified type.

Parameters ​

• type string The type of element to create (e.g. "Button", "Label", "BaseFrame")
• properties (optional) string|table Optional name for the element or a table with properties to initialize the element with

Returns ​

• table element The created element instance

Usage ​

local button = basalt.create("Button")

local button = basalt.create("Button")

basalt.createFrame() ​

Creates and returns a new BaseFrame

Returns ​

• BaseFrame BaseFrame The created frame instance

basalt.getElementManager() ​

Returns the element manager instance

Returns ​

• table ElementManager The element manager

basalt.getErrorManager() ​

Returns the error manager instance

Returns ​

• table ErrorManager The error manager

basalt.getMainFrame() ​

Gets or creates the main frame

Returns ​

• BaseFrame BaseFrame The main frame instance

basalt.setActiveFrame(frame, setActive?) ​

Sets the active frame

Parameters ​

• frame BaseFrame The frame to set as active
• setActive (optional) boolean Whether to set the frame as active (default: true)

basalt.getActiveFrame(t?) ​

Returns the active frame

Parameters ​

• t (optional) term The term to get the active frame for (default: current term)

Returns ​

• BaseFrame The frame to set as active

basalt.setFocus(frame) ​

Sets a frame as focused

Parameters ​

• frame BaseFrame The frame to set as focused

basalt.getFocus() ​

Returns the focused frame

Returns ​

• BaseFrame The focused frame

basalt.schedule(func) ​

Schedules a function to run in a coroutine

Parameters ​

• func function The function to schedule

Returns ​

• thread func The scheduled function

basalt.removeSchedule(func) ​

Removes a scheduled update

Parameters ​

• func thread The scheduled function to remove

Returns ​

• boolean success Whether the scheduled function was removed

basalt.update() ​

Runs basalt once, can be used to update the UI manually, but you have to feed it the events

basalt.stop() ​

Stops the Basalt runtime

basalt.run(isActive?) ​

Starts the Basalt runtime

Parameters ​

• isActive (optional) boolean Whether to start active (default: true)

basalt.getElementClass(name) ​

Returns an element's class without creating a instance

Parameters ​

• name string The name of the element

Returns ​

• table Element The element class

basalt.getAPI(name) ​

Returns a Plugin API

Parameters ​

• name string The name of the plugin

Returns ​

• table Plugin The plugin API

basalt.onEvent(eventName, callback) ​

Registers a callback function for a specific event

Parameters ​

• eventName string The name of the event to listen for (e.g. "mouse_click", "key", "timer")
• callback function The callback function to execute when the event occurs

Usage ​

basalt.onEvent("mouse_click", function(button, x, y) basalt.debug("Clicked at", x, y) end)

basalt.onEvent("mouse_click", function(button, x, y) basalt.debug("Clicked at", x, y) end)

basalt.removeEvent(eventName, callback) ​

Removes a callback function for a specific event

Parameters ​

• eventName string The name of the event
• callback function The callback function to remove

Returns ​

• boolean success Whether the callback was found and removed

basalt.triggerEvent(eventName) ​

Triggers a custom event and calls all registered callbacks

Parameters ​

• eventName string The name of the event to trigger

Usage ​

basalt.triggerEvent("custom_event", "data1", "data2")

basalt.triggerEvent("custom_event", "data1", "data2")