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Re: Make a button act like a 'normal' windows button
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11/27/12 20:03
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Thank you very much, TechMuc. I'll check it out.
I just hate interface-systems which are too complicated.
It always seemed like years until I had created something usable with lbgui.
That's why I started creating my own.
(but I still think a better "built-in" gui-system for 3dgs would be great...)
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Re: Make a button act like a 'normal' windows button
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11/27/12 20:25
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this is of course correct (even cegui will probably need a lot of work) but you need to use hardware acceleration. Example: CeGUI uses the following renders: There are currently CEGUI renderer modules for Microsoft® DirectX® 9, 10 and 11, OpenGL, the Ogre engine, and the Irrlicht engine (CEGUI 0.7). This is just muuuuuch faster and better than using standard windows apis
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Re: Make a button act like a 'normal' windows button
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11/27/12 20:35
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Well, as I've already said, I'll check cegui out. I heared of it before and it looks pretty promising. Maybe (if I've got the time for it) I will create a simple editor for this interface system which will make creating UIs much easier. In my opinion thats the best and easiest way to create good interfaces - by actually seeing the all the stuff while editing it without adjusting vars all the time and having to restart the engine after every little change. Anyway, thanks again for all the information! Kartoffel 
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Re: Make a button act like a 'normal' windows button
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11/28/12 15:54
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I agree on the built-in gui editor, that is something I have always felt is missing in 3dgs...
I mean, we have SED, MED (with a skin editor too), WED, GED... we need a GUI-ED
Creating interfaces is just so slow and painfull. It would be great to have tool to just select the type of item and place them, to be able to see the iterface object layout and edit on the fly. Something like an extremely simplified editor to create UI's like Visual Studio's approach. I can just agree with that but I'm not sure if creating another editor is the right thing to do (we've already got MED GED SED WED) One powerful editor which can handle most of this stuff would be so awesome - but I know I that can't expect something like this in the next time 
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Re: Make a button act like a 'normal' windows button
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11/28/12 16:06
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If you feel like writing UI is a pain in the ass, take a look onto IMGUI's. I really fell in love with the technique I was writing a GUI Framework based on it for 3dgs. Its easy to extend it, not a lot of code needed to create one and responsive. For example to create a slider you only need one line and everything works(resizes with resolution, data get changed, ...) From my framework for 3dgs:
//0: min health; 1000 max health.
//If auto-layout is on, the first parameter (UIRectC) is not needed
this->health = UIHSlider(UIRectC(20, 250, 400, 8), this->health, 0, 1000);
To extend it, you can simply write a function that contains functioncalls for other elements. (The slider function f.i. just calls UIRepeatButton() and UIBackroundImage())
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