How do you make Gui text buttons and moving pictures?

[TheEbonyAssassin]

Hello, I am a new Love user and i would like to learn how to make Gui Text Buttons. I am quite a good lua scripter just I have absolutely no idea how you can do this. Also, how can you make "Moving pictures?" Thanks.

[Ensayia]

There is no built in GUI library for making buttons, text inputs, or anything of the sort as there really isn't a nice clean way to support those features on all three operating systems LOVE runs on. You can use one of the community made ones in the Libraries section of the wiki or make your own if you choose.

As for 'moving pictures', I assume you mean animation? Look for AnAL in the libraries section as well, it's pretty much the cleanest implementation as of now, and LOVE doesn't support animated file types (GIF, APNG, etc...).

[Petunien]

Regarding the Buttons... you could use one of the GUI-libraries:

https://love2d.org/wiki/Goo
https://love2d.org/wiki/Gwee
https://love2d.org/wiki/Quickie
https://love2d.org/wiki/LoveUI

Or make your own graphic button (easily an image with GIMP) and check for the mouse position and clicks, so if the user clicks into the button area do something.

And then, what do you mean with "moving pictures"?
Pictures that moving around in the window?

Just use the x/y coordinate, as example:

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function love.load()

	imgX = 300
	imgY = 300
end

function love.update(dt)

	imgX = imgX + 1
	imgY = imgY + 1	
end

function love.draw()

	love.graphics.rectangle("fill", imgX, imgY, 20, 20)
end

The little rectangle will increase its x and y coordinate + 1 every frame.
Same works with images.

Greets