RE: [GD-General] GUI Design

[Nicolas R. <nic...@fr...>]

Helo,

Our engine is defining "windows" which look like a mix between MFC CWnd
and HWND :)
Any time a window is receiving a "size" event (from windows when the
window is the top-most backbuffer, or from the engine for child-windows)
a "OnSize" method is called. The first thing OnSize does is to call each
child's OnParentSize (leaving them a chance to resize themselves),
finally the OnSize may "re-position" child windows as wanted.

A "glue" mechanism is supported to help in most cases. A "glue" tells
that a border should be "glued" to a parent's border with a given
amount. For exemple, window A left-border should be glued to parent's
right-border - 100 pixels. Pixels can be replaced w/ width relative
values.

You should keep pixels because of UI designers usually given you nice
49x71 buttons (not speaking about window backgrounds :) ) that usually
cannot be resized at all :)

Nicolas.


-----Original Message-----
How have you guys solved this problem? My solution presented seems like
it'll add a whole lot more math to the GUI to do all the translations
for the virtual screen space.