lQuery

[RPG]

lQuery (luaQuery or loveQuery) - tiny framework similar to jQuery in JavaScript.
Documentation: http://lquery.scriptumplus.ru
Downloads: https://github.com/scriptum/lQuery/downloads
Key features:
integrated scene graph manager - all objects merged into one, easy-to-manipulate scene graph.
entity-based - all in the game are entities: menu, widgets, objects, mouse, players. You can specify entity's behavior. Example:

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circle = Entity:new(screen)
:move(400,300)
:draw(function(s) --function that displays entity
    G.circle("fill", s.x, s.y, s.R, 2*s.R)
  end)

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mouse = Entity:new(screen):draw(function(s) --unusual type of entity: mouse cursor position, useful for demonstrations
    love.mouse.setPosition( s.x, s.y )
  end)

asynchronous programming - don't think about time, just write rules for the game
animate anything - small and powerful animation library, multi-queue animation. Example:

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circle:animate({x=100, y=100}) -- move circle from current position to 100, 100

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mouse:animate({x=100, y=100}) -- move mouse cursor from current position to 100, 100

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player:animate({health=100}) -- increase player's health (you can animate any parameter of the entity)

chain methods

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box = Entity:new():move(10,10):animate({x=100}):animate({y=100})

events - specify events for entities similar to JavaScript, multiple handlers per event

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circle:click(function() 
--some action here
end)

Animation queue See below
Small demonstration: animations, events (hover mouse on circle, click on circle)


Repository:
http://github.com/scriptum/lQuery

[TechnoCat]

Well, you are certainly chaining events like JQuery. That is for sure.

[BlackBulletIV]

Looks good. Method chaining looks cool.

Using entities is a good practice, I use the idea inside of my Grace framework (although inside of Worlds, with Layers and Tags as well).

Good luck!

[RPG]

Looks good. Method chaining looks cool.

Using entities is a good practice, I use the idea inside of my Grace framework (although inside of Worlds, with Layers and Tags as well).

Good luck!

Your work looks great, but... unfortunatly, Grace framework isn't working on my system (Linux). I think this is due to case-sensitive filesystem.

[BlackBulletIV]

Mine would be a case-sensitive filesystem (I'm on a Mac) too. If you're grabbing the latest development version (up and coming alpha 5, in branch wrapper) it probably won't work. I haven't tested it in a while because of a huge paradigm shift in the code. But if you've got alpha 4, it should work without crashing on first try. Can you give me the error so I can know where the problem's coming from?

[RPG]

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bash-4.1$ love image/
Error: [string "main.lua"]:1: module '../../src.init' not found:
	no field package.preload['../../src.init']
	no file './//////src/init.lua'
	no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1///////src/init.lua'
	no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1///////src/init/init.lua'
	no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1///////src/init.lua'
	no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1///////src/init/init.lua'
	no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1///////src/init.lua'
	no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1///////src/init/init.lua'
	no file './//////src/init.so'
	no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1///////src/init.so'
	no file '/usr/lib64/lua/5.1///////src/init.so'
	no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
	no file './.so'
	no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/.so'
	no file '/usr/lib64/lua/5.1/.so'
	no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
	no file "//////src/init" in LOVE game directories.

stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'require'
	[string "main.lua"]:1: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	[string "boot.lua"]:293: in function <[string "boot.lua"]:219>
	[C]: in function 'xpcall'

For all versions:)

[BlackBulletIV]

Oh yeah, those don't work because Lua converts the dots to slashes, therefore being unable to locate them. You can fix it by bringing the folders out of the tests/examples folder, to the top level, and changing the require to 'src.init'.

(BTW: The image test won't work unless you have some of the image processing code I wrote in the (rather old) image branch)

EDIT: 300 posts! Yay!

[RPG]

You can fix it by bringing the folders out of the tests/examples folder, to the top level, and changing the require to 'src.init'.

I tried... another errors was there.

New in lQuery
Animation queue. Original feature for incredible animation effects. Animation frames in queue runs in sequence: when previous animation ends, playing next animation frame. If you want to play two different animations simultaneously, just put animation frames into separate queues and they will be independent.
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ball = Entity:new_circle()
:move(400,300)
:animate({x=30}, {speed=0.5,queue='x'})
:animate({x=500}, {speed=0.5,queue='x'})
:animate({y=30}, {speed=0.8,queue='y'})
:animate({y=500}, {speed=0.2,queue='y'}) --cool animation effect

See in action:

[BlackBulletIV]

You can fix it by bringing the folders out of the tests/examples folder, to the top level, and changing the require to 'src.init'.

I tried... another errors was there.

Well, um, could you say what they are? As said, if you're trying the image test, it won't work unless you have the image processing code.

[RPG]

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bash-4.1$ love physics/
Error: Syntax error: [string "src/data/Vector2.lua"]:27: 'then' expected near 'return'

stack traceback:
	[C]: ?
	[C]: in function 'require'
	[string "src/data/init.lua"]:4: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	[string "src/init.lua"]:19: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	[string "main.lua"]:1: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	[string "boot.lua"]:293: in function <[string "boot.lua"]:219>
	[C]: in function 'xpcall'