Introduction

BUW - Basic and Usefull Widgets (for OpenFL)
Copyright Frank Endres / Éducation Nationale, 2012-2018
Released under the Cecill-C licence

Features

BUW provides some controls for the design of a GUI:

• containers: horizontal / vertical boxes and grid,
• widgets: buttons, labels, inputs, checkboxes, radioboxes, spinboxes,
• listviews and tables to display collections of items.

BUW can be used for desktop, mobile and web applications (using OpenFL as backend). Widgets widths are responsive.

Screenshot

Development

haxe/buw Git repository

git clone git://git.tuxfamily.org/gitroot/haxe/buw.git

Usage

Installation

To install BUW library, run the command:

haxelib install buw

Project setup

To setup a new OpenFL+BUW project, run the command:

openfl create project ProjectName

Then edit project.xml and add the following line:

<haxelib name="buw" />

Sample program

Here is a sample program:

//import buw classes:
import buw.*;

class Main extends openfl.display.Sprite {
  function new() {
    super();
    
    //create a container widget (recommended):
    var box = new VBox();
    //with a Vertical Box, widgets are stacked horizontaly.
    
    //add widgets to the container (labels for example):
    box.pack(new Label("Some text."));
    box.pack(new Label("Something else."));
    //display the container (and enables vertical scrolling if needed):
    Screen.display(box);
    
    //since all widgets are sprites, one can also display them with addChild:
    var b = new TextButton(function (b) { trace("clicked"); }, "Click me !");
    b.y = 100;
    addChild(b);
  }
}