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GWEN.CreateTextureBorder

  function GWEN.CreateTextureBorder( number x, number y, number w, number h, number left, number top, number right, number bottom, IMaterial material = nil )
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Description

This is a utility function that generates a specialized drawing function to render scalable textured borders. This is done with 9-slice scaling. This is used in derma skins to create a bordered rectangle drawing function from an image.

The texture is taken from SKIN.GwenTexture when the material argument is not supplied.

Arguments

1 number x
The X coordinate on the texture.
2 number y
The Y coordinate on the texture.
3 number w
Width of the area on texture.
4 number h
Height of the area on texture.
5 number left
Left width of border.
6 number top
Top width of border.
7 number right
Right width of border.
8 number bottom
Bottom width of border.
9 IMaterial material = nil
If set, given material will be used over the SKIN's default material, which is SKIN.GwenTexture.

Returns

1 function drawFunc
The drawing function.
Function argument(s):
1 number x - X coordinate for the box.
2 number y - Y coordinate for the box.
3 number w - Width of the box.
4 number h - Height of the box.
5 table clr - Optional color, default is white. Uses the Color.

Example

Draws a bordered box in the top left corner of the screen using current skins texture.

local paintBox = GWEN.CreateTextureBorder( 384, 32, 31, 31, 4, 4, 4, 4 ) hook.Add( "HUDPaint", "PaintStuff", function() paintBox( 0, 0, 100, 100 ) end )
Output: If using default skin, it will be a 100x100px transparent blue box in top left corner with solid blue borders.

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