droidscript-alt

An alternate interface for DroidScript to app.*.

This project is currently in beta and unstable: large chunks of code may suddenly change or appear. If something seems missing, try uninstalling/reinstalling.

Installation

yarn add https://github.com/EGM/droidscript-alt

License

MIT

Example

import { alt } from "droidscript-alt"

function OnStart() {
    const layout = alt.createLayout("Linear", "VCenter,FillXY");

    const text = alt.createText("Hello")
        .setTextSize(32);

    layout.addChild(text);

    alt.addLayout(layout);
}

Some differences from the standard basic example:

1. The import statement. This project is meant to be modularized. Create layouts in one file, import them into a main app if you want.

2. Camel-casing. Method names have been changed from GetType() to getType(), more inline with mainstream programming practices.

3. object.set* methods returns the object it modifies, so multiple set methods can be chained together. Some object.add* also chain, such as .addChild.

Other differences that aren't shown:

1. Types. Because TypeScript.

2. Standardized parameter names. For example clr, color, and colour are all now color and txt and text are now text.

3. Abbreviated parameters have been expanded. For example AdjustColor(hue,sat,bright,cont) is now adjustColor(hue,saturation,brightness,contrast), as this works better with Intellisense and TypeScript tools working with the source code.

Why is this a thing?

This wasn't created because DroidScript is broken, it works great.

I started out wanting a better way to organize my code than what was offered -- just wanting to write a quick type file and use TypeScript and Rollup to pull everything together. Suddenly it was like finding out how sausage was made. Soon it became easier to rewrite app.js objects and functions as classes.