Glorp (work in progress)

Glorp is a lightweight, modular GUI library for LÖVE that provides a flexible way to build user interfaces using containers, scrollbars, buttons, and text elements. Inspired by simple layout systems and designed with puzzle and tool games in mind, Glorp offers fine-grained control over layout, visuals, and structure.

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Features

• 🧱 Containers: Stack and position elements manually or through custom logic
• 🖱️ Scrollbars: Vertical and horizontal, with customizable bar and track appearance
• ✏️ Text elements: Aligned, wrapped, and font-controlled text rendering
• 🎨 Fully customizable: Bring your own colors, images, and layout logic
• ⚡ Minimal, no dependencies
• etc

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Getting Started

Installation

example usage:

local Glorp = require("libs.glorp")
local mainContainer

function love.load()
	mainContainer = Glorp.newContainer({
		id = "mainContainer",
		x = 100,
		y = 100,
		w = 300,
		h = 400,
		scrollBar = {
			bar = { color = { 1, 0, 0, 1 } },
			track = { showScrollTrack = true }
		}
	})

	mainContainer:addText({ text = "Hello Glorp!", w = 280, align = "center" })
end

function love.mousepressed(x, y, button, isTouch)
	Glorp:mousepressed(x, y, button, isTouch)
end

function love.mousereleased(x, y, button, isTouch)
	Glorp:mousereleased(x, y, button, isTouch)
end

function love.wheelmoved(x, y)
	Glorp:wheelmoved(x, y)
end

function love.mousemoved(x, y, dx, dy)
	Glorp:mousemoved(x, y, dx, dy)
end

function love.update(dt)
	Glorp:update(dt)
end

function love.draw()
	Glorp:draw()
end

-- more will follow when the libs grows