Alternative User Input

danielsega · August 5, 2021, 6:10am

Is there any way to get a user input beside buttons, from the toolbox samples all we get is buttons and I haven’t seen any in the documentation so far.

eishiya · August 5, 2021, 1:00pm

You can do checkboxes, dropdowns, text fields, number fields, colours and colour ramps, sliders, and files. What else are you looking for?

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aseprite/api/blob/main/api/dialog.md#dialog

# Dialog

The dialog class can be used to show input controls/widgets in the
screen to get some data from the user.

Example:

```lua
local dlg = Dialog()
dlg:entry{ id="user_value", label="User Value:", text="Default User" }
dlg:button{ id="confirm", text="Confirm" }
dlg:button{ id="cancel", text="Cancel" }
dlg:show()
local data = dlg.data
if data.confirm then
  app.alert("The given value is '" .. data.user_value .. "'")
end
```

Almost all dialogs functions return the same dialog object so we can

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danielsega · August 5, 2021, 3:38pm

Thanks that’s all I like to know, thanks.

danielsega · August 7, 2021, 1:40am

Is there anyway to have a Save As like behavior? the Dialog file only gives me the path output, it’s not really intuitive. I know I could use app.command.SaveFileAs but I can’t change the file extension on it, not only that both app.command.SaveFileAs() and Dialog:file leaves by default .asepsrite file if you don’t specific a extension.