RTMLP - A new way of GUI development.

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Roblox Text Markup Language

Although I say "text", just like HTML, it's so much more than text.

It's for making static GUI pages without having to make each individual one, or hard-code changes.

For example, you might want 5 pages with only a different title or content - That's where RTML helps. Just use string.gsub(RTML code,"Content to change", "What to change it to"), which is basic.

Here's some example RTML code, which is in fully-working order.

Code:: RTML = [[

   Anything outside tags is ignored so comments are just left outside the tags.
   Generally it's easier to tab RTML comments so you can see code easier.
   Or, for UberPros, just don't put any at all.

<RTML Parent="RTMLFrame">

   Your first tag *MUST* be the RTML decleration, and the "Parent" tag is RELATIVE to the script.Parent.
   What we have here may just say RTMLFrame, but the script puts script.Parent before it automatically.
   So this RTML markup will go into RTMLFrame.

   Each script can only process one RTML document at a time (Takes about 0.001 seconds on this document)
   so multithreading in the same script is not recommended on larger documents.

<frame x="10" y="35" w="380" h="355">
   This frame will "store" all our stuff. In other words it's just there to look nice.

<textlabel x="10" y="10" w="380" h="15" text="Example page : Nyan cat. Your name is: :player:" DynamicText="1">
   This is the title, we're actualy making this methodically: First the background, then, from top to bottom, the things
   ontop of it.

   For booleans, use 0 for false and 1 for true. DynamicText states whether things like ":player:" get changed into
   the player's name.

   Dynamic text makes it slightly (unnoticably) slower.

<img x="20" y="45" w="360" h="305" href="51396646">
   Now, slightly lower down we put an image of Nyancat

<textlabel x="20" y="360" w="360" h="20" text="RTML made by Trappingnoobs. Credit to allofthese and EpicMathScriptor">
   Now give them a small note reffering to textlabels/buttons.
]]

RTMLCurrent = RTMLInner.ProcessRTML(RTML)
RTMLInner.RenderRTML(RTMLCurrent)

Administrator Posts : 878 Join date : 2010-07-30

I would love to try that out.

Guest

I've made support for most GUI objects. Here's some RTML I made for an example

Code:: RTML = [[
<frame x="5" y="5" w="5" h="5">
<frame x="10" y="10" w="5" h="5">
<textlabel x="10" y="10" w="15" h="15" text="frogs">
<img x="20" y="20" w="100" h="100" href="51396646">
]]

RTMLCurrent = RTMLInner.ProcessRTML(RTML)
RTMLInner.RenderRTML(RTMLCurrent)

It does approximately 5,000 elements per second, which is ridiculously fast. It gets faster after it's rendered once. Processing RTML into a table is almost instantaneous, rendering takes a little longer.

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I'll allow things like patterns which dynamically change, like, example, in the textlabel element's text parameter, you can put something like

text="Welcome :PlayerName:, you are in my group: :InGroup(500):."

Which'd transform automatically and dynamically on run-time into:

Welcome trappingnoobs, you are in my group: false.

Administrator Posts : 878 Join date : 2010-07-30

Cool. When will I be able to try it?

Guest

I'll release an early beta today or tomorrow. I'd've finished by now but exam revision is taking up a lot of my time. I'm aiming for 100% in IT and English and Maths (But I'll probably only get 80~90 in math), so..

I've done quite a bit so far. I'm going to allow parenting soon, and make more things local to speed it up.

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http://www.roblox.com/RTML-item?id=51742771

Administrator Posts : 1081 Join date : 2010-12-09 Age : 25

lol holy banana made something like this called RCODE.

Guest

:o

Edit

OMFG HIS HAS WORKING JAVASCRIPT AND CSS AND STOOF. ERWERGJUIVNRIVBJRIBNRTSINBRJSVIJNBSDFIJBNSDFIBJNDFSIJNBSDFIBJN

I give up. I just give up.

Edit

Nevermind it only runs lua functions to make it look like javascript. I'd assume he uses gsub to replace "}" with "end".

Guest

Love to see the source of that. A bit hypocritical since I source-encrypt all my scripts. I can't even figure out how he gets it to run, it seems to put a script in the workspace, but a non-stop scan proves that script never exists, but it errors somehow. Odd.

Administrator Posts : 1081 Join date : 2010-12-09 Age : 25

lol, I'm working on making a better GUI than him!

RTMLP - A new way of GUI development.

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