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How To Create a Tabbed Interface for a Trainer GUI

 
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AntumDeluge
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 7:57 am    Post subject: How To Create a Tabbed Interface for a Trainer GUI Reply with quote

Recently, I was trying to figure out how to create a tabbed interface for my trainer in straight Lua. I came across this old post by Dark Byte that said that the "pagecontrol object isn't exposed to lua". I did a search through Cheat Engine's GitHub repo & found that it now can be accessed through Lua.

After tinkering with it for a bit, these are the steps I've figured out to use it:

1. Create a Form.
2. Create a PageControl with the createPageControl() function & set the Form as its owner.

Code:
local form = createForm()
local tabs = createPageControl(form)


3. To use the entire area of the main Form, set its Align property to alClient.
4. Tab positioning can be set with the TabPosition property: String value of tpTop, tpBottom, tpLeft, or tpRight.

Code:

tabs.Align = alClient
tabs.TabPosition = "tpBottom"


5. Create new tabs using the addTab() method (Note: Objects created with PageControl.addTab() are TabSheet instances.

Code:

local tab1 = tabs.addTab()
tab1.setCaption("Tab 1")
local tab2 = tabs.addTab()
tab2.setCaption("Tab 2")


6. Now you can add controls to the panels under each tab.

Code:

local button1 = createButton(tab1)
button1.setCaption("Button 1")


Here is the entire script:

Code:

-- create main window
form = createForm(false)

-- create tabbed interface
local tabs = createPageControl(form)

-- set tabbed interface alignment & position
tabs.Align = alClient
tabs.TabPosition = "tpBottom"

-- add some tabs to the interface with labels
local tab1 = tabs.addTab()
tab1.setCaption("Tab 1")
local tab2 = tabs.addTab()
tab2.setCaption("Tab 2")

-- add controls to the first tab's panel area
local button1 = createButton(tab1)
button1.setCaption("Button 1")

-- give the window its own icon in the taskbar
form.ShowInTaskBar = "stAlways"

-- show the main window
form.show()


An example image is attached.

I have also updated the wiki on the PageControl class (incomplete).
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just for future reference: pagecontrol is exposed to CE, and just rightclick on it on the form and click "Add tab" and it'll add the tab
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you Dark Byte. But I like to create my forms in Lua. Smile

The Form Designer actually helped me figure out some of the properties & methods.

Edit: And yes, I noticed I could right-click in the Form Designer to add tabs on the PageControl.
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