Getting started

These pages take you from nothing to a working screen. A screen is written once against Strata's API and shown by an adapter, so first pick where yours will run:

	Platform	Start with
	A Swing application or tool, or tests that render screens to images	Installation, then Your first screen
	A Minecraft mod on NeoForge, Forge or Fabric, or a SpongeVanilla plugin	Minecraft setup, then Your first screen and Screens on Minecraft
	Another engine or toolkit	Writing an adapter

1. Installation covers what you need, how to depend on Strata from a Swing application or a Minecraft mod, and how to build it from source.
2. Your first screen builds a small form step by step and shows it in a Swing window and in Minecraft.
3. Core concepts explains the ideas the rest of the documentation assumes: the component tree, the factory and hosts, the Strata services, UI units, layout passes, events, focus, overlays and themes.

If you learn best by reading code, the Strata-Gallery repository shows every control on a page of its own, written against the API only, with a log of the events each one fires. Run it with ./gradlew run.