Hi!
It would be great, if could be use more controls on the panels.
Now we have button, digit, slider.
I would appreciate these new controls: editbox, listbox, treeview.
Unfortunately most of the 3D engines are neglecting the 2D controls, but they are important, i think so.
Thanks.

Edit: using the actual functions i can create editbox.

Search the forum for LibGui. It gives you exactly what you need.

LBGUI is good but not complete.
I support the request.
And some more feature-request's:
- We should able to clip panels, so we can do scrollable lists easier. Untill now I didn't find a good looking workaround.
- The Truetype rendering has to be imporoved. I think regardless which true-type font you choose it looks awfull.
- You should add an offset_x for text's, so you can scroll them horizontal. Until now you have to use complex stringoperations to show a cutout of a text. Editboxes with complete functionality would be possible with this.

- AANd please add an slider-changed event. I hate to have a whileloop for cheking a variable change.

I know libgui.
There is no treeview, exactly.

Could we get a positive or negative acknowledgement from the developers?

Yes, scrolling texts horizontally can be implemented. The rest is not necessary or can not.

For clipping panels there's the size_x/y parameters. A tree view is not really a feature of a 3D engine - for such GUI elements there are many open source libraries that can be used for a DLL plugin. Improvement of Truetype font rendering will certainly be implemented when you request it politely at bill@microsoft.com.

what about if someone have written a cegui plugin? i might have a working prototype.

Thanks for the reply.

Size_x and size_y don't clip panel elements. But sometimes it is nessecary to scroll interactive elements. For example in a list of buttons. It is much nicer if you can scroll a list of selectable pictures smoothly instead of scrolling them only by reassigning pictures to slots.

It'd be very cool if there was a flag or something that meant size_x and size_y visibly clipped panel elements.

That alone would make scrolling menus and drop-down menus a tonne easier. As it is they are a huge pain to implement.

Jibb