--- title: "UI panels and widgets: API" package: "@phaser-ae/ui" tier: Free version: 3.0.0-7 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-20 description: "Retained screen widgets for game menus, HUDs, settings and shops, with buttons, sliders, toggles, text fields, lists and dropdowns, flex layout, 125 icons and styles as data." url: https://phaser.io/packs/ui/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # UI panels and widgets: API `@phaser-ae/ui` — Retained screen widgets: SDF panels (gloss, 3D lip, shine, shadows), stroked captions, 125 icons, buttons, sliders, fields; styles as data. game.ui. ## The pack ### `ui` ```ts function ui(): Pack<{ ui: UiApi }, UiTopics> ``` The UI pack: retained widgets on the screen layer. Panels are roster objects drawn by a rounded-box SDF drawer — fill or gradient, rim, bevel lit from a direction, gloss cap, inner shadow, drop shadow, per-corner radius, tint, offset — with styles as data (built-ins plus `defineStyle`) and hover/pressed/disabled overrides. Labels use retained Typography paragraphs on both rendering backends. Buttons, toggles, sliders and progress bars are built from those two. Pointer driven in the `ui.input` step; anchors re-lay on resize. WebGPU for the panels; headless the widgets exist and answer input. ## Functions ### `drawUiIcon` ```ts function drawUiIcon(ctx: CanvasRenderingContext2D | OffscreenCanvasRenderingContext2D, name: UiIconName, size: number, color = '#ffffff', stroke = 0): void ``` The icon's paths filled in `color`, on a square `size` units wide (a slash cut across `music-off`). With `stroke` (in the same units) the shape is grown by that much all round, round-jointed: the silhouette an outline or an extrusion is drawn from. Path2D is the browser's. ### `parseUiTheme` ```ts function parseUiTheme(input: unknown): UiThemeDef ``` Read a theme file (an object or its JSON). Lenient and capped: unknown fields and bad values are dropped, numbers clamped, at most 64 roles and 8 fonts. Throws only when there is no theme there at all. ### `readUiDialogue` ```ts function readUiDialogue(raw: unknown): UiThemeDialogue | undefined ``` The dialogue section, coerced. ### `readUiField` ```ts function readUiField(key: keyof UiStyleFields, v: unknown): unknown ``` One field, coerced to what the catalogue allows, or undefined when it cannot be read. ### `readUiFields` ```ts function readUiFields(raw: unknown): UiStyleFields ``` Style fields only, each coerced; unknown keys dropped. ### `readUiFrame` ```ts function readUiFrame(raw: unknown): UiThemeFrame | null ``` An illustrated frame, or null when its measurements cannot hold together. ### `readUiStyle` ```ts function readUiStyle(raw: unknown): UiStyleData ``` A whole style: fields, base and states. Lenient: a bad field is dropped, never fatal. ### `registerUiTheme` ```ts function registerUiTheme(k: { registry: { add(kind: string, def: UiThemeDef): void } }, def: UiThemeDef): void ``` What a pack that brings a theme calls in attach (`ui-skins` does, for each skin): register `def` under the registry kind `'ui-theme'` so `game.ui.theme = def.name` finds it. Requires the `ui` pack. ### `serializeUiTheme` ```ts function serializeUiTheme(def: UiThemeDef): UiThemeFile ``` The canonical file for a theme. ### `uiCornerPack` ```ts function uiCornerPack(c: UiCorner | UiCorners | undefined): number ``` Four corner shapes in one number for the shader: tl + 4·tr + 16·br + 64·bl, each 0 round, 1 cut, 2 scoop, 3 notch. ## Constants ### `isUiColor` ```ts const isUiColor = (v: unknown): v is string=> … ``` A colour the shader can read: #rgb, #rgba, #rrggbb or #rrggbbaa. ### `UI_CORNERS` ```ts const UI_CORNERS: readonly UiCorner[] ``` Every `UiCorner` value. The shader reads a corner as its index here, so the order (round, cut, scoop, notch) is part of the format. ### `UI_DEFAULT_STYLES` ```ts const UI_DEFAULT_STYLES: Record ``` The candy skin's styles as the ui pack's built-in look, in the engine's bold sans (compose ui-skin-candy for its display face). ### `UI_DRAWER_ID` ```ts const UI_DRAWER_ID: 4 ``` The id this pack registers its drawer under. ### `UI_GLOSS_SHAPES` ```ts const UI_GLOSS_SHAPES: readonly UiGlossShape[] ``` Every `UiGlossShape` value. The shader reads a style's gloss shape as its index here, so the order is part of the format. ### `UI_ICON_ALIASES` ```ts const UI_ICON_ALIASES: { readonly 'arrow-left': "back"; readonly undo: "restart"; } ``` Names that are another icon's picture under the word a game reaches for. ### `UI_ICON_LABELS` ```ts const UI_ICON_LABELS: Readonly> ``` What each icon means, in words: the accessible name of a button that shows it and nothing else. ### `UI_ICON_PATHS` ```ts const UI_ICON_PATHS: Readonly, ReadonlyArray>> ``` The path data, on a 256-unit square. ### `UI_ICONS` ```ts const UI_ICONS: readonly ["pause", "play", "sound-on", "sound-off", "music-on", "music-off", "restart", "home", "settings", "close", "fullscreen", "fullscreen-exit", "back", "arrow-left", ... 110 more ..., "vibrate"] … ``` The engine's own icons for a game's buttons — pause, sound, music, restart, and the hundred more a game's menus, shop and HUD reach for (stars, coins, hearts, locks, arrows, trophies) — so a game never has to spell them out ("II", "SND") or ship art for them. Each is SVG path data on a 256-unit square, its ink filling the square (Phosphor's Fill weight; the marks that read better as a line — close, restart, back, check, plus, minus, the arrows and carets, menu, more, redo, shuffle — from its Bold weight), painted white on first use and tinted by the widget's style. `music-off` is `music-on` with a slash drawn across it; `arrow-left` and `undo` are `back` and `restart`. ### `UI_PATTERNS` ```ts const UI_PATTERNS: readonly UiPattern[] ``` Every `UiPattern` value. The shader reads a style's pattern as its index here, so the order is part of the format. ### `UI_RIM_FINISHES` ```ts const UI_RIM_FINISHES: readonly UiRimFinish[] ``` Every `UiRimFinish` value. The shader reads a style's rim finish as its index here, so the order is part of the format. ### `UI_ROLES` ```ts const UI_ROLES: ReadonlyArray<{ id: string; what: string }> ``` Every role the built-in widgets draw with, and what each one is. A theme may add its own names too. ### `UI_STYLE_FIELDS` ```ts const UI_STYLE_FIELDS: { readonly [K in keyof Required]: UiFieldSpec } ``` The field catalogue: every style field with its range and default. The parser clamps to these. ### `UI_STYLES` ```ts const UI_STYLES: Record ``` The built-in styles, the look a game has before it chooses a skin: the candy skin's (`UI_DEFAULT_STYLES`, written out from `ui-skin-candy` and drawn in the engine's bold sans rather than candy's display face). 'default' is a yellow candy pill with a white rim, a jelly gloss, a passing shine and a lip it presses into; 'good', 'warn', 'bad' and the colour buttons ('green', 'red', 'blue', 'yellow', 'orange', 'purple', 'pink', 'teal', 'grey', 'brown') are the same pill in other colours; 'flat' a grey one; 'dark' a purple window; 'panel', 'title', 'label', 'heading' and 'icon' the roles a theme restyles; 'track', 'fill', 'knob', 'box', 'tick', 'dot', 'field', 'focus', 'row', 'rowSelected', 'scrollTrack' and 'scrollThumb' the widgets' parts. Two more are the engine's own: 'glass' and 'retro'. ### `UI_TEXTURE_MODES` ```ts const UI_TEXTURE_MODES: readonly UiTextureMode[] ``` Every `UiTextureMode` value. The shader reads a style's texture mode as its index plus one (0 means no texture), so the order is part of the format. ### `UI_THEME_FORMAT` ```ts const UI_THEME_FORMAT: "phaser-ae-ui-theme" ``` The `format` value that marks a file as a UI theme: 'phaser-ae-ui-theme'. ## Types ### `UiAnchor` ```ts type UiAnchor = 'top-left' | 'top' | 'top-right' | 'left' | 'center' | 'right' | 'bottom-left' | 'bottom' | 'bottom-right' ``` Where a widget sits relative to the screen (or, inside a container, relative to its content box when the container has no `layout`); `x y` are offsets from that anchor. ### `UiApi` ```ts interface UiApi ``` `game.ui`. - `ready(): Promise` — Load bundled UI fonts and prepare existing widgets; also awaited during game startup. - `font: TypographyFonts | null` — Default loaded Typography font selection; null uses style-selected families. - `panel(spec: UiWidgetSpec): UiHandle` — A styled box. - `modal(h: UiHandle, on?: boolean): void` — Raise a widget and everything under it onto a MODAL band above every other widget, and make everything outside it inert — no hover, no click, no wheel. Modals stack: the newest is the one that takes input. `on: false` drops it back. Killing the widget drops it too. - `readonly modalTop: UiHandle | null` — The modal taking input, or null. - `label(spec: UiWidgetSpec): UiHandle` — Text only (no panel). - `button(spec: UiWidgetSpec & { onClick?: (h: UiHandle) => void }): UiHandle` — A panel with a label that fires `onChange(1)` on click. - `toggle(spec: UiWidgetSpec & { value?: number; onChange?: (v: number, h: UiHandle) => void }): UiHandle` — An on/off switch; `value` 0 or 1. - `slider(spec: UiWidgetSpec & { value?: number; min?: number; max?: number; step?: number; onChange?: (v: number, h: UiHandle) => void }): UiHandle` — A horizontal slider. `value` is 0..1 unless `min`/`max` give it a range, and `step` quantises it — a difficulty picker is a slider with `min: 0, max: 3, step: 1`. - `progress(spec: UiWidgetSpec & { value?: number }): UiHandle` — A bar filled to `value` 0..1. - `checkbox(spec: UiWidgetSpec & { value?: number; onChange?: (v: number, h: UiHandle) => void }): UiHandle` — A square tick box with a label; `value` 0 or 1. - `radio(spec: UiWidgetSpec & { group: string; value?: number; onChange?: (v: number, h: UiHandle) => void }): UiHandle` — A round option in a `group`: selecting one clears the others in the group; `onChange(1)` on the one chosen. - `input(spec: UiTextSpec): UiHandle` — A single-line text field: click to focus, type, Backspace, arrows, Home/End, Enter submits. - `textarea(spec: UiTextSpec): UiHandle` — A multi-line text box: wraps, scrolls by wheel or caret, Enter breaks a line, Ctrl+Enter submits. - `list(spec: UiListSpec): UiHandle` — A scrollable list of options: wheel scrolls by row, click selects. - `dropdown(spec: UiListSpec): UiHandle` — A button showing the selected option; click opens a list below it. - `readonly focus: UiHandle | null` — The focused interactive widget, or null. - `navigate(direction: 'next' | 'previous' | 'left' | 'right' | 'up' | 'down'): void` — Move focus through the eligible order (Tab / Shift+Tab). - `window(spec: UiWindowSpec): UiHandle` — A container with a title bar and a column layout (padding 16, gap 10, children centred) — put widgets in it with `parent`. - `defineStyle(name: string, style: UiStyle): void` — Register a named style. Defining a name again (a built-in's too) REPLACES it, live: every widget repaints in it, as for a theme switch; an identical definition does nothing. An active theme's style of the same name still wins. - `readonly styles: ReadonlyArray` — Every style name. - `defineTheme(def: UiThemeDef): void` — Register a theme at runtime (a `ui-skin-*` pack registers its skin in attach). Defining a name again REPLACES it, live — an editor can restyle as it goes. Its `fonts` start loading at once; widgets repaint when they land. - `loadTheme(source: string | object): Promise` — Load a theme file (`phaser-ae-ui-theme` JSON — a URL, which goes through the asset loader so a pack's base URL applies, or the parsed object), wait for its fonts, define it, and return its name. It does not switch to it: `game.ui.theme = await game.ui.loadTheme(url)`. - `readonly themeDef: UiThemeDef | null` — The active theme's definition (styles, fonts, its dialogue section), or null for the built-in styles. - `readonly themes: ReadonlyArray` — Every composed theme name. - `theme: string` — The active theme name, `''` for the built-in styles. Set it (or call `useTheme`) to reskin every widget live — window, buttons, checkboxes, slider, scrollbars, list, dropdown and inputs. - `useTheme(name: string): void` — Switch theme by name (`''` reverts to the built-in styles). - `readonly hot: UiHandle | null` — The widget under the pointer, or null. - `readonly widgets: ReadonlyArray` — Live widgets. - `readonly icons: ReadonlyArray` — The engine's icons, by name (`UI_ICONS`, 125 of them): 'pause', 'play', 'sound-on', 'sound-off', 'music-on', 'music-off', 'restart', 'home', 'settings', 'close', 'back', 'check', 'plus', 'star', 'heart', 'coin', 'gem', 'lock', 'trophy', 'shop', 'arrow-right', 'caret-left'… - `icon(name: UiIconName): string` — One of the engine's icons as a picture by name, painted white on first use, for a sprite of its own: `game.spawn({ texture: game.ui.icon('pause'), tint: '#ffd166', layer: 'hud' })`. - `pauseButton(spec?: UiIconButtonSpec): UiHandle` — The pause button: a square button with the pause icon, top right. A press opens the game's pause menu, the scene called 'pause', pushed over play so play is held beneath it while the menu runs (`scenes.push('pause')`; the menu resumes with `scenes.pop()`). `onClick` replaces that. It is not `game.commands.pause()`, which holds everything, the menu included. Takes any widget spec: `icon` for the game's own picture, `anchor x y w h style`. - `muteButton(spec?: UiIconButtonSpec & { mutedIcon?: string }): UiHandle` — The sound button: a square button showing the sound on or off, beside the pause button. A press mutes or unmutes the game (`game.commands.mute()` / `unmute()`), and it follows the sound however it was muted. `icon` and `mutedIcon` swap in the game's own pictures; `onClick` runs after the switch (to save the choice). ### `UiCorner` ```ts type UiCorner = 'round' | 'cut' | 'scoop' | 'notch' ``` How a corner is shaped. The size is the radius. ### `UiCorners` ```ts type UiCorners = [T, T, T, T] ``` The four corners, clockwise from the top left. ### `UiFieldSpec` ```ts type UiFieldSpec = | { kind: 'number'; min: number; max: number; def: number; step?: number } | { kind: 'color'; def?: string } | { kind: 'enum'; options: readonly string[]; def: string } | { kind: 'radius'; min: number; max: number; def: number } | { kind: 'corner'; def: UiCorner } | { kind: 'font'; def: string } | { kind: 'name'; def: string } ``` What a field holds, for validation and for editors. ### `UiGlossShape` ```ts type UiGlossShape = 'cap' | 'band' | 'pill' | 'dome' ``` The gloss's shape: 'cap' fades down from the top; 'band' lightens the top part, cut straight across (a two-tone candy face); 'pill' is an inset rounded highlight, bright at its top (jelly); 'dome' is an ellipse over the upper face (a sphere, for round buttons). ### `UiHandle` ```ts type UiHandle = Handle & { ui: UiWidgetApi } ``` A widget is a roster handle with a `ui` sub-object. ### `UiIconButtonSpec` ```ts type UiIconButtonSpec = UiWidgetSpec & { onClick?: (h: UiHandle) => void } ``` What `pauseButton` and `muteButton` take: any widget spec, all of it optional. ### `UiIconName` ```ts type UiIconName = (typeof UI_ICONS)[number] ``` The name of one of the engine's icons: any entry of `UI_ICONS`. ### `UiKind` ```ts type UiKind = 'panel' | 'label' | 'button' | 'toggle' | 'checkbox' | 'radio' | 'slider' | 'progress' | 'window' | 'input' | 'textarea' | 'list' | 'dropdown' ``` Every widget kind. ### `UiLayout` ```ts interface UiLayout ``` How a container lays its children out — a CSS flex row or column. - `direction?: 'column' | 'row'` — Stack children down ('column', default) or across ('row'). - `padding?: number | { top?: number; right?: number; bottom?: number; left?: number }` — Space inside the container's edges: one number, or per side. Default 16. - `gap?: number` — Space between children. Default 10. - `align?: 'start' | 'center' | 'end' | 'stretch'` — Cross-axis placement of each child: 'start' | 'center' (default) | 'end' | 'stretch' (the child takes the content width/height). - `justify?: 'start' | 'center' | 'end' | 'space-between' | 'space-around'` — Main-axis placement of the run of children: 'start' (default) | 'center' | 'end' | 'space-between' | 'space-around'. ### `UiListSpec` ```ts interface UiListSpec extends UiWidgetSpec ``` What lists and dropdowns take. - `options: ReadonlyArray` — The options. - `value?: number` — Selected index, -1 for none. Default -1 (list) / 0 (dropdown). - `rows?: number` — Visible rows before scrolling. Default 5. - `rowHeight?: number` — Row height. Default 28. - `onChange?: (index: number, h: UiHandle) => void` — Called with the selected index. ### `UiPattern` ```ts type UiPattern = 'none' | 'lines' | 'grid' | 'dots' | 'checks' | 'grain' | 'hex' ``` A procedural pattern over a panel's fill. ### `UiRimFinish` ```ts type UiRimFinish = 'flat' | 'tube' | 'chrome' ``` How a rim is finished: 'flat' paint (default); 'tube', shaded as a rounded tube lit from the style's `light`; 'chrome', a polished metal ring that reflects a bright sky over a dark horizon. ### `UiStyle` ```ts interface UiStyle extends UiStyleFields ``` A panel's look. Every field optional; missing ones come from `base` then the defaults. The data fields are listed, with their ranges, in format.ts (`UI_STYLE_FIELDS`); this adds what only code can hold. - `textFont?: TypographyFonts` — Loaded Typography font or fallback stack. Omit to inherit game.ui.font or the style family. - `base?: string` — A named style to inherit from. - `hover?: UiStyle` — Overrides while the pointer is over an interactive widget. - `pressed?: UiStyle` — Overrides while pressed. - `disabled?: UiStyle` — Overrides while disabled. ### `UiStyleData` ```ts interface UiStyleData extends UiStyleFields ``` A style as data: fields, a named base to inherit, and overrides per state. - `base?: string` — A named style to inherit from. - `hover?: UiStyleFields` — Overrides while the pointer is over an interactive widget. - `pressed?: UiStyleFields` — Overrides while pressed. - `disabled?: UiStyleFields` — Overrides while disabled. ### `UiStyleFields` ```ts interface UiStyleFields ``` Every field a style can carry, without inheritance or states. - `designHeight?: number` — The height this style was drawn for, px. A widget of any other height scales every px measure with it — radius, rim, lip, gloss inset, shadow, font size, stroke — so one style looks the same on a 40 px button and a 120 px one. 0 (default) keeps every measure as written. - `radius?: number | 'pill' | UiCorners` — Corner size: one number, 'pill', or [tl, tr, br, bl]. Default 12. - `corner?: UiCorner | UiCorners` — Corner shape: 'round' (default), 'cut' (a straight chamfer), 'scoop' (an inward quarter circle), 'notch' (a square step). One, or [tl, tr, br, bl]. - `fill?: string` — Fill colour (gradient start). Default '#5a6bb8'. - `fillTo?: string` — Gradient end colour; omit for flat. - `fillMid?: string` — A middle stop, for a three-stop gradient. - `fillAngle?: number` — Gradient direction, degrees: 0 top→bottom, 90 left→right. Default 0. - `fillShape?: 'linear' | 'radial'` — 'linear' (default) or 'radial' — fill at the centre, fillTo at the corners. - `pattern?: UiPattern` — A pattern over the fill. Default 'none'. - `patternColor?: string` — Pattern colour; its alpha is its strength. Default '#ffffff22'. - `patternScale?: number` — Pattern period, px. Default 8. - `patternAngle?: number` — Pattern rotation, degrees. Default 0 — lines run across; 45 makes diagonal stripes. - `patternSize?: number` — Pattern weight 0..1: line or dot thickness as a share of the period, or the amount of grain. Default 0.3. - `texture?: string` — A TEXTURE across the face: a picture by name, tiled. A texture pack's ('wood' is `ui-texture-wood`'s), or any picture the game has (painted, or loaded from assets.json). Default none. - `textureScale?: number` — One tile of the texture across, px. Default 128. - `textureStrength?: number` — The texture's strength, 0..1. Default 1. - `textureAngle?: number` — The texture's rotation, degrees. Default 0. - `textureMode?: UiTextureMode` — How it lies over the fill: 'overlay' (default), 'multiply' or 'image'. - `textureOn?: 'face' | 'all'` — Where it goes: 'face' (default), or 'all', the rim as well — a frame cut from the same wood. - `border?: number` — Rim thickness inside the edge; 0 none. Default 0. - `borderColor?: string` — Rim colour. Default '#ffffff'. - `borderColorTo?: string` — Rim gradient end; omit for flat. - `borderDash?: number` — Dash length of the rim, px; 0 is solid. - `borderFinish?: UiRimFinish` — The rim's finish: 'flat' (default), 'tube' or 'chrome' — chrome in `borderColor` is silver in grey, gold in yellow. - `borderStripeColor?: string` — Stripes across the rim in this colour (its alpha their strength), like a candy-striped frame; transparent is none. Default '#00000000'. - `borderStripeWidth?: number` — The stripes' period, px: one stripe and one gap. Default 12. - `borderStripeAngle?: number` — The stripes' angle, degrees. Default 45. - `ring?: number` — A second rim inside the first — a double frame. Width, px; 0 none. - `ringInset?: number` — Distance from the edge to the inner rim, px. Default border + 3. - `ringColor?: string` — Inner rim colour. Default the rim colour. - `ringDash?: number` — Dash length of the inner rim, px; 0 is solid — short dashes are stitching. - `dashGap?: number` — Gap between dashes, px. Default the dash length. - `bevel?: number` — Bevel strength 0..1. Default 0. - `bevelWidth?: number` — Bevel reach in from the edge, px. Default 6. - `light?: number` — Light direction, degrees clockwise from above. Default 0. - `gloss?: number` — Gloss strength 0..1. Default 0. - `glossHeight?: number` — Gloss height as a fraction of the panel. Default 0.45. - `glossInset?: number` — Gloss inset from the sides, px. Default 6. - `glossColor?: string` — Gloss colour; the sparkle and the shine use it too. Default '#ffffff'. - `glossShape?: UiGlossShape` — The gloss's shape: 'cap' (default), 'band', 'pill' or 'dome'. - `sparkle?: number` — Glints on the gloss: a short streak and a dot inside the top-left corner, 0..1. Default 0. - `shine?: number` — A band of light that sweeps across the face every `shinePeriod` seconds on the game clock, 0..1. Default 0. - `shinePeriod?: number` — Seconds from one shine to the next. Default 4. - `shineWidth?: number` — The shine's width, as a share of the face. Default 0.22. - `depth?: number` — The LIP: the panel drawn as a slab this many px thick — its face on top, its darker side showing beneath. The face is the box less the lip; captions and icons sit on the face. Default 0. - `depthColor?: string` — The lip's colour. Default the fill's end colour, darkened. - `press?: number` — How far the face has sunk into the lip, px, up to `depth`: a pressed state says `press: depth` and the button goes down. Default 0. - `innerShadow?: number` — Inner shadow strength 0..1. Default 0. - `innerShadowWidth?: number` — Inner shadow reach, px. Default 10. - `innerShadowColor?: string` — Inner shadow colour. Default '#000000'. - `shadow?: number` — Drop shadow strength 0..1 — with no offset and a colour, a glow. Default 0. - `shadowX?: number` — Shadow offset x. Default 0. - `shadowY?: number` — Shadow offset y. Default 4. - `shadowBlur?: number` — Shadow blur, px. Default 10. - `shadowSpread?: number` — Shadow spread, px. Default 0. - `shadowColor?: string` — Shadow colour. Default '#000000'. - `tint?: string` — Multiply tint over the finished panel. Default '#ffffff'. - `alpha?: number` — Opacity. Default 1. - `offsetX?: number` — Shift the panel, px. Default 0. - `offsetY?: number` — Shift the panel down. Default 0. - `contentInset?: number` — Space a window or panel keeps clear inside its edge, px, before its layout's padding: a wide frame's width, so children never sit on the frame. A list keeps its rows and scrollbar its `border` plus this inside its edge. Default 0. - `textColor?: string` — Label colour. Default '#ffffff'. - `font?: string` — Label CSS font: size and family, e.g. 'bold 16px Cinzel'. Default 'bold 15px sans-serif'. - `textOutline?: number` — Label outline width, px (distance-field fonts). At most about 1/20 of the font size, the reach of the font's distance field; a wider outline is drawn at that width. Default 0. - `textOutlineColor?: string` — Label outline colour. Default '#000000'. - `textColorTo?: string` — The label's gradient: `textColor` at the top of the letters, this at the bottom. Omit for flat. - `textStroke?: number` — A STROKE round the label (and an engine icon), px, of any width: the chunky outline of game text. Drawn behind the letters; `textOutline` is the thin distance-field one. Default 0. - `textStrokeColor?: string` — Stroke colour. Default '#000000'. - `textDepth?: number` — The label's EXTRUSION: the stroked letters again, this many px lower, behind — the depth of 3D game text. Default 0. - `textDepthColor?: string` — Extrusion colour. Default '#00000080'. - `textShadowX?: number` — Label hard shadow offset x, px. Default 0. - `textShadowY?: number` — Label hard shadow offset y, px. Default 0. - `textShadowColor?: string` — Label shadow colour; transparent is none. Default '#00000000'. - `letterSpacing?: number` — Extra space between letters, px. Default 0. - `textCase?: 'none' | 'upper' | 'lower'` — Label case. Default 'none'. - `textAlign?: 'center' | 'left' | 'right'` — Where a label or button caption sits across its box. Default 'center'. - `textInset?: number` — Distance from the edge to a left- or right-aligned caption, px. Default 12. - `textBox?: 'line' | 'caps'` — What a caption is centred on, up and down: 'line' (default), its line of text, or 'caps', its capital letters — level on a button whatever the font's ascent and descent. ### `UiTextSpec` ```ts interface UiTextSpec extends UiWidgetSpec ``` What text widgets take beyond the common spec. - `value?: string` — Starting text. Default ''. - `placeholder?: string` — Grey text shown while empty. - `maxLength?: number` — Maximum UTF-16 length, without splitting a grapheme. Default 64 (input) / 2000 (textarea). - `password?: boolean` — Show dots instead of characters. Default false. - `onInput?: (text: string, h: UiHandle) => void` — Called as the text changes. - `onSubmit?: (text: string, h: UiHandle) => void` — Called on Enter (input) or Ctrl+Enter (textarea). - `rows?: number` — Visible rows (textarea). Default 4. - `readOnly?: boolean` — Prevent editing while retaining the normal appearance. Default false. - `textAlign?: 'left' | 'center' | 'right'` — Align each line within the field. Default left. - `textOverflow?: 'scroll' | 'hidden'` — Scroll overflowing text, or clip it without scrolling. Default scroll. ### `UiTextureMode` ```ts type UiTextureMode = 'overlay' | 'multiply' | 'image' ``` How a texture lies over the fill: 'overlay' lays its light and shade over the colour, which keeps its hue (grey wood grain over blue is blue wood); 'multiply' darkens by it; 'image' shows its own colours. ### `UiThemeDef` ```ts interface UiThemeDef ``` A theme, as the engine holds it. - `name: string` — How a game selects it. - `description?: string` — One line for the catalogue. - `styles: Record` — Role name → style. A role absent here falls back to the built-in of the same name. - `font?: string` — The default label font (CSS shorthand) for every style that does not set its own. - `fonts?: UiThemeFont[]` — Fonts to load before the theme's labels can use them. - `dialogue?: UiThemeDialogue` — The matching dialogue box. ### `UiThemeDialogue` ```ts interface UiThemeDialogue ``` The dialogue box that matches the theme — read by the dialogue pack when a game opens one without a preset. - `panel?: UiStyleData` — Native panel material behind the words. - `ink?: string` — Body text colour. - `accent?: string` — Accent: nameplate and ornaments. - `nameInk?: string` — Speaker name colour. - `motif?: string` — One of the dialogue pack's procedural compositions (lace, ribbon, rose, gold, paper, arcane, school, noir, cinema, prism, holo, terminal, pixel, ledger, wood, comic, phone, novel). - `size?: number` — Body text size, logical px. - `font?: string` — Font for the speech, CSS shorthand ('20px Lora'). - `frame?: UiThemeFrame` — An illustrated frame instead of the procedural ornaments. ### `UiThemeFile` ```ts interface UiThemeFile extends UiThemeDef ``` The theme as a file. - `format: typeof UI_THEME_FORMAT` — Always `UI_THEME_FORMAT`; `parseUiTheme` throws on a file that names any other format. - `version: 1` — File format version; always 1. ### `UiThemeFont` ```ts interface UiThemeFont ``` A font a theme needs, loaded from a baked Typography GLB and registered under `family`. - `family: string` — The family name styles use in `font` ('16px Cinzel'). - `url: string` — The baked GLB, usually a CDN URL from the font catalogue. - `bold?: string` — A bold face for the same family ('bold 16px Cinzel'). ### `UiThemeFrame` ```ts interface UiThemeFrame ``` An illustrated nine-slice dialogue frame: artwork plus measurements, in source pixels. - `url: string` — Transparent PNG/WebP, CORS-enabled. - `width: number` — Image size. - `height: number` — Image height in source pixels, the second half of the size. - `slices: UiCorners` — Protected left, top, right, bottom margins. - `mode?: 'nine' | 'horizontal'` — 'nine' (default) or 'horizontal'. - `borderScale?: number` — Fixed ornament scale. - `textInset?: number` — Horizontal text padding, logical px. - `aperture: { x: number; y: number; width: number; height: number }` — The reading surface inside the artwork. - `speaker: { x: number; y: number; width: number; height: number }` — Safe text bounds inside the speaker plate. ### `UiTopics` ```ts interface UiTopics ``` Signals, per step. - `'ui.change': { id: string; value: number }` — A button was clicked, a toggle/checkbox/radio flipped, a slider released, a list/dropdown picked. - `'ui.input': { id: string; text: string }` — A text widget's text changed. - `'ui.submit': { id: string; text: string }` — A text widget submitted (Enter / Ctrl+Enter). ### `UiWidgetApi` ```ts interface UiWidgetApi ``` The `ui` sub-object on a widget handle. - `readonly kind: UiKind` — The kind. - `readonly id: string` — The id it reports in signals (the spec's `id`, else its kind). - `readonly parent: UiHandle | null` — The container this widget is inside, or null. - `readonly children: ReadonlyArray` — Children placed inside this widget, in order. - `layout: UiLayout | undefined` — The container's layout; set it (or mutate and `relayout()`) to re-place the children. - `relayout(): void` — Re-run the layout (after changing children's sizes in place). - `readonly content: { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number }` — The content box this frame (inside padding and the title bar), screen px. - `text: string` — Label text; setting repaints. - `icon: string | null` — The icon (an engine icon's name, or a picture by name), or null for none; setting swaps it. - `style: string | UiStyle` — The style, live (replace it, or mutate and call `restyle()`). - `roles: UiWidgetSpec['roles']` — Auxiliary material roles scoped to this widget. - `restyle(): void` — Apply after mutating the style object in place. - `readonly hover: boolean` — Pointer over it. - `readonly pressed: boolean` — Pressed. - `disabled: boolean` — Disabled: no input, `disabled` style. - `hidden: boolean` — Hidden: not drawn, no input. - `value: number` — Toggle/checkbox/radio (0/1), slider (0..1, or its own `min`..`max`), progress (0..1), list/dropdown (the selected index). Setting moves the widget; no `change` fires. - `textValue: string` — Text widgets: the text. Setting repaints; no `change` fires. - `placeholder: string` — Empty text-field hint, live. - `readOnly: boolean` — Text fields: editing is disabled, appearance is unchanged. - `textAlign: 'left' | 'center' | 'right'` — Text fields: line alignment, live. - `textOverflow: 'scroll' | 'hidden'` — Text fields: scrolling or fixed clipping. - `focused: boolean` — Keyboard/controller focus for any interactive widget. Set it to focus by code. - `scroll: number` — Lists, dropdowns, textareas: the first visible row/line. - `options: ReadonlyArray` — Lists and dropdowns: the options (replace the array to change them). - `readonly group: string` — Radios: the group name. - `w: number` — Width, px. - `h: number` — Height. - `x: number` — Offset from the anchor. - `y: number` — Offset y. - `anchor: UiAnchor` — The anchor. - `onChange?: (value: number, h: UiHandle) => void` — Called on a click (button), a flip (toggle) or a drag/release (slider). - `readonly rect: { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number }` — Screen rect this frame: left, top, width, height. ### `UiWidgetSpec` ```ts interface UiWidgetSpec ``` What every widget takes. - `accessibleLabel?: string` — Accessible control name. Defaults to the visible label, then id. - `tabIndex?: number` — Focus order; negative excludes from sequential navigation. Default creation order (0). - `neighbours?: Partial>` — Explicit directional focus targets by widget id; otherwise spatial navigation is used. - `safeArea?: boolean` — Root widgets use the mobile safe rectangle. Default true; false allows edge-to-edge decoration. - `anchor?: UiAnchor` — Anchor. Default 'top-left'. - `x?: number` — Offset from the anchor (the widget's own anchor point is the same corner). Default 0. - `y?: number` — Offset y. Default 0. - `w?: number | 'auto'` — Width, px. A BUTTON without one sizes itself to its icon and caption (and `'auto'` says so); one with a width shrinks its caption and icon to fit. Default 120 for other widgets. `'auto'` on a ROW container sizes it to its children plus its padding. - `h?: number | 'auto'` — Height, px. Default 36. `'auto'` on a COLUMN container sizes it to its children plus its padding — the bottom padding is the one a hand-written height always gets wrong. - `layer?: string` — The screen layer. Default 'hud'. - `z?: number` — Depth. Default 0. - `style?: string | UiStyle` — A style name or object. Default 'default'. - `text?: string` — Label text. - `icon?: string` — A picture on the widget, in its style's text colour: one of the engine's icons (`UI_ICONS`: 'pause', 'sound-on', 'restart'…), or any picture by name (painted, or loaded from assets.json) shown as it is. Beside the text when it has some. - `iconSize?: number` — The icon's size, px. Default 60% of the face's height (the widget's smaller side). On a button it shrinks with the caption when the two would not fit. - `disabled?: boolean` — Start disabled. Default false. - `hidden?: boolean` — Start hidden. Default false. - `id?: string` — An id for signals. Default the kind. - `parent?: UiHandle` — Put this widget inside a container (a `window` or a `panel`). With a `layout` on the parent the widget is placed by it and `anchor x y` are ignored; without, `anchor x y` are relative to the parent's content box. - `layout?: UiLayout` — Make this widget a container: lay its children out like a flex row or column. - `alignSelf?: 'start' | 'center' | 'end' | 'stretch'` — Override the parent layout's `align` for THIS child — flexbox's align-self. A column of stretched fields with one left-aligned caption needs it. - `bounce?: boolean` — Press feedback (the style's `pressed.offsetX/Y` sink). Default true for buttons, false for everything else. - `clip?: boolean` — Containers: clip children's panels to the content box (a scissor rect). Labels are not clipped. Default false. - `roles?: Partial<{ track: string | UiStyle; fill: string | UiStyle; knob: string | UiStyle; tick: string | UiStyle; dot: string | UiStyle }>` — Material overrides for auxiliary parts (fills, knobs, ticks and dots). ### `UiWindowSpec` ```ts interface UiWindowSpec extends UiWidgetSpec ``` What `window` takes: a panel with a title bar and a column layout by default. - `title?: string` — The title, drawn in a bar at the top. - `titleHeight?: number` — Title bar height. Default 36. - `titleStyle?: UiStyle` — Style for the title label. Default the window style's font/colour. --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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