Creating Ordinary Menus

Perquisites

Lotus depends mainly on Paper-API and java 17 to operate. make sure you have those before we begin

Initializing Lotus API

You must create a Lotus instance in your onEnable() Quick example:

public class Test extends JavaPlugin {

   private Lotus api;
	
   @Override
   public void onEnable() {
     api = new Lotus(this, EventPriority.NORMAL);
   }

}

Creating and opening menus

In Lotus, menus object MenuView is not meant to be dealt with when using the API. You should stick to using a Menu; it's an interface that defines the information created when opening the menus.

Here's an example:

public class TestMenu implements Menu {
	/**
	 * @param extraData the extra data for the menus (usually empty)
	 * @param opener the player who is opening this menu
	 * @return the title for this menu
	 */
	@Override
	public @NotNull MenuTitle createTitle(DataRegistry extraData, Player opener) {
		return MenuTitles.createModern("<red>My Title");
	}
	
	/**
	 * @param extraData the extra data for the menus (usually empty)
	 * @param opener the player who is opening this menu
	 * @return the capacity/size for this menu
	 */
	@Override
	public @NotNull Capacity createCapacity(DataRegistry extraData, Player opener) {
		return Capacity.ofRows(5);
	}
	
	/**
	 * Creates the content for the menu
	 *
	 * @param extraData the extra data for the menus (usually empty)
	 * @param opener the player opening this menu
	 * @param capacity the capacity set by the user above
	 * @return the content of the menu to add (this includes items)
	 */
	@Override
	public @NotNull Content createContent(DataRegistry extraData, Player opener, Capacity capacity) {
		return Content.builder(capacity)
			.setButton(0, Button.clickable(new ItemStack(Material.APPLE),(menu, clickEvent)-> {
				opener.sendMessage("You have clicked on an apple !");
			}))
			.build();
	}
}

Opening the menus

Call the method Lotus#openMenu example >>

api.openMenu(player, new TestMenu());

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