Easiest way to position Derma panels?

[ErraticFox]

What would the best way to position buttons and such with Derma panels? Instead of just using a random position, loading in and checking it and then working off of that.

[Megiddo]

Make the variable for the panel global and update it using lua_run_cl.

[LuaTenshi]

Make the variable for the panel global and update it using lua_run_cl.

It would be nice if some one made a fancy in game menu creator/editor.

[Megiddo]

It would be nice if some one made a fancy in game menu creator/editor.

It has been done a few times before, they don't last very long. It's hard to make something truly generic enough.

[ErraticFox]

It has been done a few times before, they don't last very long. It's hard to make something truly generic enough.

Why don't they last long?

[Megiddo]

Due to the Law of Leaky Abstractions as well as the fact that a lot of the Gmod community is younger and inherently distrustful of anything they didn't code themselves.