- row_span, col_span represent the relative size of a widget on the grid. A widget with col_span = 4 will be displayed as wide as 4 widgets of col_span = 1.
Example: w = d:add_label( "My Label", 2, 3, 4, 5 ) will create a label at row 3, col 2, with a relative width of 4, height of 5.
-d:add_button( text, func, ... ): Create a button with caption "text" (string). When clicked, call function "func". func is a string.
+d:add_button( text, func, ... ): Create a button with caption "text" (string). When clicked, call function "func". func is a function reference.
d:add_label( text, ... ): Create a text label with caption "text" (string).
d:add_html( text, ... ): Create a rich text label with caption "text" (string), that supports basic HTML formatting (such as <i> or <h1> for instance).
d:add_text_input( text, ... ): Create an editable text field, in order to read user input.
Stream
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stream( url ): Instantiate a stream object for specific url.
+memory_stream( string ): Instantiate a stream object containing a specific string.
+ Those two functions return the stream object upon success and nil if an
+ error occured, in that case, the second return value will be an error message.
s = vlc.stream( "http://www.videolan.org/" )
s:read( 128 ) -- read up to 128 characters. Return 0 if no more data is available (FIXME?).