danielwillett/unturneduitools

UI access tools and extensions library for making client-side modules for Unturned.

UI Tools and Extensions

Powerful Unturned Module/Library for manipulating Glazier/Sleek UI.

Requires HarmonyLib 2.3.3+.

NuGet package: DanielWillett.UnturnedUITools

Reflection Tools

This package references my Reflection Tools library which has a lot of good tools for efficient access to non-public members.

XML Documentation

This package includes complete XML documentation for SDG.Glazier.Runtime.dll, which houses all of the Glazier code.

Note: this is done by including a reference assembly in the package, so don't copy it from the output directory to your libraries.

UI Tools

The UIAccessor class has many tools for working with UIs:

• Many efficient getters for internal types and instances of vanilla UIs.
• Optional managed Harmony log that clears on startup to help diagnose transpilers.
• EditorUIReady and PlayerUIReady events.
• UI TypeInfo with basic information about each UI type (used by UI extensions).
• OnInitializingUIInfo to add your own information to TypeInfo.
• LoadUIToILGenerator and EnumerateUIInstructions to load instance singleton UIs to ILGenerators or transpilers.
• Extension for ISleekElement: CopyTransformFrom to copy all transform values from one element to another.

UI Extensions

Add a class as an extension to existing vanilla or modded UI classes.

You can extend the following types. It is also possible to add your own types.

• Singleton and Static UIs. This includes any of the 'standard' in-game UI classes.
• Useable UIs (Guns, Housing Planners, etc).
• Node and Volume editor menus.
• Any class deriving from SleekWrapper.
• Modules can add their own classes in as well.

Existing Members

Easy access to members of the class you're expanding (static or instance) is possible with Existing Members.

// Property getter will be patched to return messageLabel.
[ExistingMember("messageLabel")]
private ISleekLabel MessageLabel { get; }

// Property will be set before the constructor runs. Change this behavior with the 'InitializeMode' attribute property.
// If you choose to use the 'PatchGetter' option with a setter,
// you cannot use the setter to set the existing member's value back.
[ExistingMember("messageLabel")]
private ISleekLabel MessageLabel { get; set; }

// Field will be set before the constructor runs.
[ExistingMember("messageLabel")]
private readonly ISleekLabel _messageLabel;

Common Mistake

Due to the way UI extensions are created, setting existing members to null! to suppress nullability warnings actually overrides the value set before the constructor runs.

Take care to avoid doing this.

// Setting this to null here to fix nullable references will run after the fields
// are initialized but before the constructor so _container will have a null value.
// 
// Instead use #nullable disable and #nullable restore to do this,
// or simply mark the field nullable.

// ================== BAD ==============================

[ExistingMember("container")]
private readonly SleekFullscreenBox _container = null!;

// ================== GOOD =============================

#nullable disable

// ...

[ExistingMember("container")]
private readonly SleekFullscreenBox _container;

// ...
#nullable restore

// ================== GOOD =============================

[ExistingMember("container")]
private readonly SleekFullscreenBox? _container;

// =====================================================

Static Compatibility

The system is designed to be able to be accessed from a static context (like a patch, for example).

// Getting static or singleton UI extensions:

MenuDashboardUIExtension? extension = UnturnedUIToolsNexus.UIExtensionManager.GetInstance<MenuDashboardUIExtension>();


// Getting non-singleton UI extensions:

static void Postfix(object __instance)
{
  SleekItemExtension? extension = UnturnedUIToolsNexus.UIExtensionManager.GetInstance<SleekItemExtension>(__instance);
}

Examples

More examples available in: ExampleModule/Examples.

This example adds a button to the bottom left of the main menu.

[UIExtension(typeof(MenuDashboardUI))]
internal class MenuDashboardUIExtension : UIExtension, IDisposable
{
    private const string Url = "https://github.com/DanielWillett/UnturnedUITools";

    private readonly ISleekButton _githubButton;

    [ExistingMember("exitButton")]
    private readonly SleekButtonIcon _exitButton;

    [ExistingMember("container")]
    private readonly SleekFullscreenBox _container;

    public MenuDashboardUIExtension()
    {
        _githubButton = Glazier.Get().CreateButton();

        _githubButton.CopyTransformFrom(_exitButton);
        _githubButton.PositionOffset_Y -= 60;
        _githubButton.Text = "UITools GitHub";
        _githubButton.FontSize = ESleekFontSize.Medium;
        _githubButton.OnClicked += OnClickedGithubButton;
        _githubButton.BackgroundColor = ESleekTint.BACKGROUND;

        _container.AddChild(_githubButton);
    }

    private static void OnClickedGithubButton(ISleekElement button)
    {
        Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo
        {
            FileName = Url,
            UseShellExecute = true
        });
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
        _githubButton.OnClicked -= OnClickedGithubButton;
        _container.RemoveChild(_githubButton);
    }
}

unturneduitools's Issues

is it possible to create UI dynamic lists for a plugin using the module?

help me with an example, if its possible?