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https://github.com/Incendo/interfaces

A Java user-interface library with support for Minecraft.
https://github.com/Incendo/interfaces

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A Java user-interface library with support for Minecraft.

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# `interfaces`



_Building interfaces since 2021._



`interfaces` is a builder-style user interface library designed to make creation of flexible user interfaces as easy as possible.



> This library is currently in a state of constant breaking changes. The API has yet to be finalized, so please keep this in mind when considering using `interfaces`.



## Packages



[`interfaces-core`](https://github.com/Incendo/interfaces/tree/master/core) provides the core API classes.



[`interfaces-paper`](https://github.com/Incendo/interfaces/tree/master/paper) implements `interfaces` using the [Paper Minecraft server API](https://papermc.io). This package 

provides the

capability to construct a variety of Minecraft-based interfaces, including text, inventory (i.e. chests), and books.



## Terminology



#### Interface



An interface is the main class that you'll be interacting with. Interfaces hold a series of transformations and other values that

can be used to construct an InterfaceView.



#### InterfaceView ("view")



An InterfaceView represents a 'rendered' interface. An InterfaceView holds one pane and one InterfaceViewer.



#### InterfaceViewer ("viewer")



An InterfaceViewer represents an object that can view an interface. InterfaceViewers are provided panes to view.



#### Pane



A pane holds a collection of elements that make up the visual aspect of an interface.



#### Transform



A transformation ("transform") operates on a type of pane to add, remove, or change elements. Transformations are used to interact

with panes.



## Usage



Snapshots of this repository are hosted at https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/.



Gradle example:



```kotlin

repositories() {

    // ...

    maven("https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/")

    // ...

}



dependencies() {

    implementation("org.incendo.interfaces:interfaces-{package}:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT")

}

```



## Examples



Creating an interface



This code creates a chest interface with one row, a background fill, an ItemStackElement containing information about the 

player, and utilizes an argument provider. This element also tracks how many times it has been clicked. 



```java

ChestInterface infoInterface = ChestInterface.builder()

    // This interface will have one row.

    .rows(1)

    // This interface will update every five ticks.

    .updates(true, 5)

    // Cancel all inventory click events

    .clickHandler(ClickHandler.cancel())

    // Fill the background with black stained glass panes

    .addTransform(PaperTransform.chestFill(

    ItemStackElement.of(new ItemStack(Material.BLACK_STAINED_GLASS_PANE))

    ))

    // Add some information to the pane

    .addTransform((pane, view) -> {

        // Get the view arguments

        // (Keep in mind - these arguments may be coming from a Supplier, so their values can change!)

        final String time = view.arguments().get(ArgumentKey.of("time", String.class));

        final Player player = view.arguments().get(ArgumentKey.of("player", Player.class));

        final Integer clicks = view.arguments().get(ArgumentKey.of("clicks", Integer.class));



        ItemStack itemStack = new ItemStack(Material.PAPER);

        ItemMeta itemMeta = itemStack.getItemMeta();



        itemMeta.displayName(Component.text("Item Name", NamedTextColor.GREEN));

        ArrayList lore = new ArrayList<>();

        lore.add(Component.text("Line 1"));

        lore.add(Component.text("Clicks: " + clicks));

        itemMeta.lore(lore);

        itemStack.setItemMeta(itemMeta);



        // Return a pane with

        return pane.element(ItemStackElement.of(itemStack,

        // Handle click

        (clickHandler) -> {

            final HashMapInterfaceArguments arguments = HashMapInterfaceArguments

                .with(ArgumentKey.of("clicks", Integer.class), (clickHandler.view().arguments().get(ArgumentKey.of("clicks", Integer.class))) + 1)

                .with(ArgumentKey.of("player", Player.class), clickHandler.view().arguments().get(ArgumentKey.of("player", Player.class))).build();



            clickHandler.view().backing().open(clickHandler.viewer(), arguments);

        }

    ), 4, 0);

    })

    // Set the title

    .title(Component.text("interfaces demo"))

    // Build the interface

    .build();

```



Showing the interface to a player



This code shows the interface created in the previous example being shown to a viewer.

As the interface uses arguments, we can pass in supplier functions to the interface argument.



```java

// Open the interface to the player.

infoInterface.open(PlayerViewer.of(player),

    // Create a HashMapInterfaceArgument with a time argument set to a

    // supplier that returns the current time printed all nice and pretty.

    HashMapInterfaceArguments

        .with(ArgumentKey.of("player", Player.class), player)

        .with(ArgumentKey.of("time", String.class), () -> {

            DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");

            LocalDateTime now = LocalDateTime.now();

            return dtf.format(now);

            })

        .with(ArgumentKey.of("clicks", Integer.class), 0).build()

);

```



[Video of the result of this code in Minecraft](https://imgur.com/a/JPdJPvX).



_Note: these examples may not reflect the latest version of the `interfaces` API._



Further examples can be found here: https://github.com/Incendo/interfaces/tree/master/examples



## Credits



Thanks to [kyori](https://github.com/kyoripowered) and their [`adventure` text library](https://github.com/kyoripowered/adventure).



Thanks to [broccolai](https://github.com/broccolai) for letting me steal his entire Gradle project setup.