gUtils

What is it?

It is a gLua (only some can be used with pure lua) object-oriented library that strives to provide some default controls and utilities to make developers lives without over-complicating things.

Configuration

You need to add your Steam API key on lua/gutils/config.lua

Features

• OOP Implementation
• List object
• Function queue (makes functions be called on next think, helps when you need everything to finish processing before something else runs)
• A logger that can be used on any addon and creates an ULX/ULib-like startup box automatically if requested
• Player extensions:
  • Event when the player is not fully authenticated
  • Fake player generation(can be used with admin mods when you don't want "(Console)" to show up, but a name of your choosing instead)
  • Event when the player is playing the game with family sharing identifying the lender
  • Player functions to identify whether the player is playing with a shared copy of Garry's Mod and who lent it
  • Possibility to queue messages for showing when the player spawns incase the player is not in the server
• Loader functions (basically replaces . for / and adds .lua to the end)
• Event system (think of it as hooks but without all that hook name competition and that can be binded to objects)
• String extensions:
  • String capitalizing method
  • Function to split a string in even chunks (last one may not be the same size since the string may not be of a divisible by the chunk length size)
• Table extensions:
  • Adding function (adds to tables together and returns the value (does not modify original tables))
  • Table filtering function (filter a table's contents according to the return of a function)
  • Table clearing function (because assigning {} wastes memory)
  • Function to change the values of a table for keys (perfect for enums)

What can be used with pure lua?

• OOP implementation (was actually made using the lua interpreter not GMod's)
• List object
• String extensions (with inclusion of gLua's string.Trim for chunk splitting)
• Table extensions
• Loader (I have no idea why you'd want this, but with some modifications it works)
• Event system

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This library is no longer under development, if any bugs get reported I'll fix them when I can, but don't expect new features to be added (though you may suggest them and create pull requests if you'd like).