vide/docs/tut/crash-course/2-creation.md
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# Creating UI
Instances are created using `create()`.
`create()` returns a constructor for a class which then takes a table of
properties to assign when creating a new instance for that class.
Luau allows us to omit parentheses `()` when calling functions with string or
table literals which is recommended to use for brevity.
```lua
local create = vide.create
return create "ScreenGui" {
create "Frame" {
AnchorPoint = Vector2.new(0.5, 0.5),
Position = UDim2.fromScale(0.5, 0.5),
Size = UDim2.fromScale(0.4, 0.7),
create "TextLabel" {
Text = "hi"
},
create "TextLabel" {
Text = "bye"
},
create "TextButton" {
Text = "click me",
Activated = function()
print "clicked!"
end
}
}
}
```
Assign a value to a string key to set a property, and assign a value to a
number key to set a child. Events can be connected to by assigning a function
to a string key.