Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

[Ron J. <wi...@je...>]

On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 06:54 -0800, Gene Buckle wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Curtis Olson wrote:
> 
> > Here's the thing.  FlightGear uses a gui widget set that is implemented on
> > top of OpenGL.  This has many advantages from a portability standpoint and
> > from the standpoint of integrating with window systems.  "Pui" doesn't have
> > every feature under the sun, but it was never meant to.  It's relatively
> > small, lean, mean, and written on top of OpenGL which makes life *much*
> > easier for us.
> >
> Would it be possible (or even reasonable?) to strip out the GUI portion of 
> plib (essentially divorcing it from the bits that are un-needed/wanted)?
> 
> The idea being that if plib was stripped down to only the essential 
> elements needed to support the GUI functionality, it might be more 
> managable to improve incrementally as time goes on.  The library could be 
> renamed "GUIGear" and be maintained along with the other *Gear projects. 
> It would also have the advantage of dropping an external library 
> dependancy.
> 
> g.

I wonder if it would be better to adopt OSG's gui rather than forking
plib?  As I understand the current state of affairs, PUI is lightyears
ahead of OSG's gui system though.

Ron