Re: [GD-General] Complex In game UI

[Ignacio <cas...@ya...>]

If you really need a complex GUI, an option that may be worth to consider i=
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to use any of the existing comercial gui libraries that have proven to work=
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well and have nice tools to design the ui layout. For example, Qt4 provides=
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different painter engines, one of them implemented using OpenGL. You can al=
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provide your own implementation of QPaintEngine using DirectX, you would ju=
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have to write some simple drawing routines. You would also have to implemen=
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a custom style engine so to adapt the ui to the look&feel of your game.

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qpaintengine.html
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qstyle.html

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Ignacio Casta=F1o
cas...@ya...

On Saturday 28 August 2004 22:41, Tham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Probably this is an age old question. If so please point me to the correct
> place if this topic is already discussed in great length.
>
> I would like to know what are the techniques and its pros/cons that are
> used to produce complex in game GUI (such as those found in Star Wars
> Galaxy) with trees, split panes, child windows etc.
>
> Will appreciate any ideas, urls, advice...
>
> Many thanks
> tham