Heya and welcome on the forums.

I do not program at all, but is this some sort of set of pre-made routines to make programming easier?

That's essentially what it is, a bunch of convenience functions used to make the whole process easier. Nobody wants to have to program the same small things over and over to do something different with them - if someone wants to make 3 or 4 programs that utilize basic window/button functionality then why should they have to code it more than once?

Hey TZScribblez!
I just looked a bit at your code, and it looks pretty good. This will be useful for many Lua Programmers

Thanks for the feedback