A6GUI Editor

Pardon me for visiting the site and making some observations that may or may not concern you. However, if you haven't been working at 2:52am under a rock for the past 4 weeks, you might have noticed that there are some particularly nasty vulnerabilities that make use of javascript, animated cursors and ADS (alternate data streams). See MS07-017 This vulnerability is being actively exploited and has compromised over 2000 websites already.

Pop-ups, embedded or not, such as the one shown below

not only block the view of the beautifully designed and laid-out site that you are advertising, but could pose significant risk to those that are enticed to explore further.

At 2:52am tonight, maybe your friend could have a peak at his code, and perhaps re-evaluate the following lines:
Code:

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	<!-- Ad by funpic.de --><noscript><div style="display:none">&nbsp;</div>
</noscript><script type="text/javascript" 
src="hxxp://media.funpic.de/layer.php?bid=20660543"></script>
<!-- End Ad by funpic.de --></body>
</html>  

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Note the http has been changed to hxxp to stop it from loading here.

I don't know if this page loads anything nefarious, however, I'm not about to click on any portion of it to find out. An "X" for closing the pop-up could just as easily execture code to compromise a system. Is the website looking to make money for "FunPic" or provide A6 info to the community?

I'm not trying to insult you or your friend, or accuse you of evil doing, but the site is useless to anyone that has an inkling about security. I don't really expect you to care, or to change anything on the site, but I will take your advice and shut... Good luck with your endeavours.

Mark

As you saw, I host my site on funpic, altogether with 100,000 other users. What do you want with my "friend"?

If you want to have a better security, use firefox. Tss' you have problems.

BTW usually ther are just adds for internet connection stuff, it's indeed annoying to look at these ugly girls

Eh, Fireox as a security solution. Whatever...
I _AM_ interested in your editor. Hopefully I can download it sometime from a site that doesn't throw crap like that up and block the content.

I don't mind taking a peek at the ladies. I'm just as "bent" as the next guy when it comes to the opposite sex. Maybe you would consider changing the size or placement of the ad so it doesn't block the site? Something to discuss in PM if you wish to continue bickering with me. (I have time and I'm bored anyway)

Cheers,
Mark

I have no control at all of the damm add. The add java text gets added automatically to every site I upload.

I see you are bored I'm not, I currently successfully try to implement OGRE into the A6.

OGRE into a6?

using ogres renderer to render instead of a6's, i was going to try the same with irrlicht, but its over my head

Lol, hey this thread is about my GUI editor, not about render stuff.

Yes, I successfully replaced the A6 window with an OGRE rendering device. Give me some more time and you will see screens you havn't even dreamed about. But I won't give it away soon.

Nice idea. I'm about to dabble in finalizing (which is a fancy word for starting) a UI, so this may come in handy.

I hope that the GUI-Editor comes out today....

Mercuryus sollte beim TÜV arbeiten..

Ok, release.

What license?

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/de/deed.en

How to start?

As I've no possibility to publish with my Lite-C version, you have to use the souce code to work with the editor. Once A7 will come out I'll publish an standalone application. To start, open A6GUI.c with SED and press run.

Link

http://www.bloodline.eu.tc/A6/A6GUI.rar

Please note that there is just the button as element, as I had no time to add more. When I'm back from my holydays, I'll add static text and some more usefull things. Please don't look at my scripting, as this project was a wild tryout of Lite-C, and inbetween the development it was a world editor, a simple game, ...

Does anybody know when A7 is going to come out?
You can count on me for getting the GUI Editor.

I'm a litte... disappointed about the feedback.

Is the code unusuable? Do you get any error somewhere or do you just wait to get a standalone version?

Hi bloodline,

I think this can be really usefull piece of software.

The lack of feedback is probably due to a few reasons:
-Very few people have access to lite-c (only betatesters and A7-prerelease owners)
-You haven't advertised it very well yet, I only just saw this thread.
-If I understand correctly, it cannot do much yet in its current state (only buttons).

I don't have alot of time, but I took a look at it and tried to run it. I'm getting the error 'undeclared identifier GetSaveFileName' when I try to run this with the latest beta. I see a .vcproj file, this is not a visual C project, is it?

I think that if you complete this and post it to AU, the download site, showcase I, it will become a really popular tool like easy particles.

Hey nice

It actualy is a visual studio project! This is how I use Lite-C, you should try it

Yes sorry, the GetSaveFileName-Error is JCL's fault, he forgott to add it to the windows header.

Search for 'GetOpenFileName' in windows.h Add
DWORD __stdcall GetSaveFileName (DWORD);
in the next line.

I've just tried it, and I'm impressed! This looks like a great tool, very intuitive!

While using it, I've listed everything that I noticed. Most of these are very small problems, but if you fix them the usability/intuitivity would increase and it will feel more polished.

- Spelling error in help: Modifie -> modify
- Back button on the help would be nice.
- Would be nice if we could change the properties in panelsettings by clicking on the text, not on the name of the property. For example, to change the name, you have to click on 'name' instead of the name that is given (like Default0). This got me for a sec.
- It would be nice if the size of the panel could also be set numerically, for precise scaling.
- Don't use a 'cancel' button to close the rightclick-menu, use a left mouse click anywhere on the screen. That's more intuitive.
- If I scale a panel below 0, it will be inverted. It would be nice if the triangle used to move the panel is also flipped then (triangle.scale_x = sign(panel.scale_x);). BTW, if both x and y are inverted, the bmap will not be displayed (engine bug?).
- Layer values are max()ed to 1, is this required by the engine?
- I would integrate the element and panel settings. Place the list of elements on the panel settings window. Then you can click an element to change it, or an empty element to create a new element. To change/create an element, it would then launch some kind of wizard (just another window, like panel settings) where you can set all properties of that element. For example for button you'd have buttonOn, buttonOff, buttonOver, position, function, etc.
- When I press export, it gives the error "negative argument in AdGUI_export_Do" then it says "Done".

How could I use VS with lite-c? I assume you use it just as an editor, not as compiler/linker, right? How does it know how to start the engine and stuff?

Sorry Bloodline, but I'm not using Lite-C yet. However, I've been monitering this thread because it looks like a great tool, and I'd like to see peoples results!

I agree with xXxGuitar511. Maybe the toll has just come a bit oo early since i think most of the users stay at c-script till there is a stable release of x-kite. But i like the idea of such a tool, and the way you made it looks very good.

Thanks Excessus for your great feedback! I'll implement most of the things as soon as I get time.

Update

-You don't have to define the missing winAPI function yourselfe

That's fantastic Bloodline.

Thank you.

That's realy great !
It helps Newbies like me !

Verry Good

I run it at this moment
an an Error comes:

Can't run DISPLAY00.wdl

Hey this looks great! It looks like you can use a variable to determine a panel's position.

I am trying to do something like this, I want to place buttons on the screen based on the current screen resolution, this allows buttons to stay at the right place, even when resolution changes.

So I wanted to put a variable at the position of the panel button, but that gives a syntax error.

Is it possible to place buttons (that can be pressed) depending on a variable, then I could have them at the right places for every resolution.

code:
build()
{ create_building; }

if (video_mode == 7) var button_pos = 400;
if (video_mode == 8) var button_pos = 500;

panel UI_button
{
button = button_pos,button_pos, icon, icon, pressed, build(), NULL, NULL;
layer = 1; flags = d3d, refresh;
}

function main {
while (game) {
UI_button.visible = on; // show panel
wait(1); } }

sadly this gives a syntax error for the variable I use...

It would be

var button_pos;
if (video_mode == 7) button_pos = 400;
if (video_mode == 8) button_pos = 500;

The resolution feature was planed, but to fuzzy to implement. I'll maybe implement it later.

Yea ok, but then it still can't use the variable for a button position...

New download location

http://worldawake.eu.tc/public/A6GUI_1.0.1.rar

link's broken...

It works fine here and it did yesterday when I posted the link in your other thread. Make sure you're using the "New download location" in the post above yours.

http://worldawake.eu.tc/public/A6GUI_1.0.1.rar

I noticed some references to this being Lite-C Only ... as I'm new to the community, I'm a bit confused ...

I just purchased A6 Commercial and am running Game Studio 6.60 (or something along those lines) and I open up A6GUI.c in SED and press Debug Run and/or Test Run and the A6 Engine window appears ... but seems to be stuck in an infinite loop and it doesn't update the screen ... so, basically ... nothing seems to be happening.

Can someone give me a bit of guidance on this?

I was actually getting ready to start an 'A6 UI Designer' project in .NET using WinForms and SDL so I could layout the UI for a project I'm working on ... and ran across this thread and more or less stopped working on my UI Designer in hopes that this would save me lots of time ...

If there's any interest in a windows based UI designer that can export/import A6 UI's ... let me know ... I might finish the project if I can't get this to work (or if it doesn't do what I need...)

Bloodline/TWO if your still looking for free hosting without popups, please contact me I can help.

Hmm, nice that there's still someone interested in this code.

D3D, no the link above should you just give the file, no page. So you dont get in contact with any popup Also, Ive my own server now (my own PC), but I dont want to post a new link again.

But you could do another thing for me: Have you bought the a7 prerelease? Then you could publish the project, that would be really really nice.

If many people would use this programm then, Ill further develop it for sure.

Sure just pm the download link and i'll compile it for you.

hi
how do i use this editor??
sam

any info on my previous post about it not working in A6?

How is the progress on the A6GUI EDITOR or A7GUI EDITOR, does anybody know at this point? I think the developer has a great thing going here, I think he shouldn't give up on it. If I was him, I would put it up for sale at a certain price say like 30 or 40 dollars.

Has any body heard any progress on this project yet???????????

I'm sorry but I don't plan to develop this further. There are much more important things in my live.

If I will ever work on this project again, I'll rewrite it completely for sure to get a high-end stable programm. But not yet.

anyone have this or any alive link?

id like to mirror this if somebody gives it to me?

ps. just wonderin does this works with lite-c?

It's written in and for lite-c, in fact this was my first tryout of the beta.

http://public.oliver-weitzel.com/A6GUI.rar

thanks.

here is the mirror: http://mirror.quadraxas.com/A6GUI.rar