Help with creating a GUI in Forge!

[ProPane865]

Hello, I just created a forge account because I wanted to post things like this on the forums. Anyway, I am here to ask about how to create a GUI. I recall that there was a feature back in 1.12 to create a GUI for any block with a TileEntity that opens on a right click. The right click event still exists to this day, but the GUI seems to be missing for Forge 1.13/1.14! I have read all the docs for Forge 1.13 and only found ONE LINE that even mentions about a GUI, and it has a link that goes to a NONEXISTENT PAGE! Does anyone know if they removed or replaced the GUI system?

 

BTW here is a link to the place where I found the GUI link: https://mcforge.readthedocs.io/en/1.13.x/blocks/interaction/#guis

Edited July 9, 2019 by ProPane865

[ProPane865]

No one knows? Weird............

Edited July 9, 2019 by ProPane865

[ProPane865]

I'm serious. Nobody knows?

[DavidM]

Please stop bumping your thread every hour or so.

This will be annoying to others, thus reducing the chance of getting help.

Edited July 10, 2019 by DavidM

[superminerJG]

3 hours ago, ProPane865 said:

Hello, I just created a forge account because I wanted to post things like this on the forums. Anyway, I am here to ask about how to create a GUI. I recall that there was a feature back in 1.12 to create a GUI for any block with a TileEntity that opens on a right click. The right click event still exists to this day, but the GUI seems to be missing for Forge 1.13/1.14! I have read all the docs for Forge 1.13 and only found ONE LINE that even mentions about a GUI, and it has a link that goes to a NONEXISTENT PAGE! Does anyone know if they removed or replaced the GUI system?

 

BTW here is a link to the place where I found the GUI link: https://mcforge.readthedocs.io/en/1.13.x/blocks/interaction/#guis

I remember that a machine-like block has 4 things in 1.12.2: block, tile entity, container and GUI. It appears that there is Container, but not GUI. I would suggest looking at the decompiled code for the furnace and/or barrel.

[DavidM]

3 hours ago, ProPane865 said:

but the GUI seems to be missing for Forge 1.13/1.14!

No. The class still exists in 1.13. The name of the class didn't even change from 1.12 in 1.13.

Use your IDE to find the GuiContainer class and use it to create your GUI.

Edited July 10, 2019 by DavidM

[superminerJG]

3 minutes ago, superminerJG said:

I remember that a machine-like block has 4 things in 1.12.2: block, tile entity, container and GUI. It appears that there is Container, but not GUI. I would suggest looking at the decompiled code for the furnace and/or barrel.

 

3 hours ago, ProPane865 said:

Hello, I just created a forge account because I wanted to post things like this on the forums. Anyway, I am here to ask about how to create a GUI. I recall that there was a feature back in 1.12 to create a GUI for any block with a TileEntity that opens on a right click. The right click event still exists to this day, but the GUI seems to be missing for Forge 1.13/1.14! I have read all the docs for Forge 1.13 and only found ONE LINE that even mentions about a GUI, and it has a link that goes to a NONEXISTENT PAGE! Does anyone know if they removed or replaced the GUI system?

 

BTW here is a link to the place where I found the GUI link: https://mcforge.readthedocs.io/en/1.13.x/blocks/interaction/#guis

 

The GUI system is totally revamped right now. Even I don't get it.

[superminerJG]

6 minutes ago, DavidM said:

No. The class still exists. The name of the class didn't even change from 1.12 in 1.13.

Use your IDE to find the GuiContainer class and use it to create your GUI.

I don't see a GuiContainer. I see ShulkerBoxContainer, HopperContainer, LoomContainer, etc.

[DavidM]

8 minutes ago, superminerJG said:

I don't see a GuiContainer. I see ShulkerBoxContainer, HopperContainer, LoomContainer, etc.

In 1.13 (as OP specified), the GuiContainer class is at net.minecraft.client.gui.inventory.GuiContainer.

 

There might be a mapping change that changed the name of the class, but I don't think there is one concerning 1.13.

Edited July 10, 2019 by DavidM

[Draco18s]

22 minutes ago, superminerJG said:

I don't see a GuiContainer. I see ShulkerBoxContainer, HopperContainer, LoomContainer, etc.

And those classes all extend...?

[superminerJG]

54 minutes ago, Draco18s said:

And those classes all extend...?

Container.

[ProPane865]

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No. The class still exists in 1.13. The name of the class didn't even change from 1.12 in 1.13.

Use your IDE to find the GuiContainer class and use it to create your GUI.

Alright, I have searched for "Gui" but got the following:

 

- GuiAccessDenied

- GuiBackupFailed

- GuiButtonExt

- GuiCheckBox

- GuiConfirmation

- GuiContainerEvent

- GuiMessageDialog

- GuiModList

- GuiNotification

- GuiOpenEvent

- GuiScreenEvent

- GuiSlider

- GuiSlotModList

- GuiUnicodeGlyphButton

- GuiUtils

 

That's pretty much it, I didn't find anything relating to GuiContainer!

There were also HUGE structural API changes for 1.13, so I had my doubts that the class would remain untouched.
 

 

Edited July 10, 2019 by ProPane865

[desht]

Container and GUI creation is very different in 1.14.x compared with 1.12.2.  I wrote a post about it here while figuring it out: 

I hope you're developing in 1.14.x and not the dead-end that is 1.13.x.

And the reason you're not finding any GuiXXXX classes in vanilla is that they've all been renamed to xxxScreen (e.g. HopperScreen).

Edited July 10, 2019 by desht

[ProPane865]

On 7/10/2019 at 6:06 AM, desht said:

Container and GUI creation is very different in 1.14.x compared with 1.12.2.  I wrote a post about it here while figuring it out: 

I hope you're developing in 1.14.x and not the dead-end that is 1.13.x.

And the reason you're not finding any GuiXXXX classes in vanilla is that they've all been renamed to xxxScreen (e.g. HopperScreen).

Yes, I am coding in 1.14, and I see that they renamed the classes!

Edited July 11, 2019 by ProPane865