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Panel Meta

Lilia's interface relies on VGUI panels with extra functionality. This document describes convenience methods available to those panels.

Overview

Panel meta functions support scaled positioning, listen for inventory changes, and offer other utilities that make building responsive menus and HUD elements easier.

liaListenForInventoryChanges(inventory)

Description:

Subscribes this panel to updates for a specific inventory.

Parameters:

  • inventory (Inventory) – Inventory to watch for changes.

Realm:

  • Client

Example Usage:

  • None – This function does not return a value.

Example Usage:

panel:liaListenForInventoryChanges(player:getChar():getInv())

liaDeleteInventoryHooks(id)

Description:

Removes inventory update hooks created by liaListenForInventoryChanges.

Parameters:

  • id (number) – ID of the inventory to stop listening to.

Realm:

  • Client

Returns:

  • None – This function does not return a value.

Example Usage:

-- Remove all registered hooks for this panel
panel:liaDeleteInventoryHooks()

SetScaledPos(x, y)

Description:

Positions the panel using screen scale units.

Parameters:

  • x (number) – Horizontal position using ScreenScale.

  • y (number) – Vertical position using ScreenScaleH.

Realm:

  • Client

Returns:

  • None – This function does not return a value.

Example Usage:

-- Position the panel 10 units from the left and 20 units down
panel:SetScaledPos(10, 20)

SetScaledSize(w, h)

Description:

Sizes the panel using screen scale units.

Parameters:

  • w (number) – Width using ScreenScale.

  • h (number) – Height using ScreenScaleH.

Realm:

  • Client

Returns:

  • None – This function does not return a value.

Example Usage:

-- Set panel size to 64 by 32 scaled units
panel:SetScaledSize(64, 32)