Guides

Task-focused guides. Each one explains a part of the API with working code and links to the full reference pages.

Guide	Covers
Drawing on screen	paint and invalidate, colors and theme colors, fonts, text measurement, shapes, bitmaps and masks
Forms & configuration UI	form.addLine and fields, layout slots, expansion panels, dialogs, widget configuration
Sources & telemetry	Finding sources, reading values, categories and options, creating sensors
Events, keys & touch	Event handlers, key codes, touch, consuming events
Saving settings	Widget read/write, files, settings for tools and tasks
Audio & haptics	Playing files, numbers, tones and vibration without spamming the pilot
Translations	Locale detection and translation tables

New to Ethos Lua? Start with Getting started. Writing anything that runs continuously? Read Best practice too.