Re: [Glgui-dev] Hi, what's up

[Scott F. <sf...@gl...>]

At 01:33 PM 4/2/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, I'm not sure who is on this thing, there don't seem to be any messages
>or whatnot.

Hi, welcome to the list.  Here's the status right now:
	I'm waiting for Keith Harrison to finish some reorganization and a small
sample application.  Then we need to decide what we're going to work on at
that point.  I have a few more details below.

>Basically, I like the gamegui a lot, it is exactly what I was going to be
>writing myself until I saw it.
>What I need it to do is two things.  First I definitely need a resource
>editor which, unless
>somebody is doing something with it currently, I'd like to get started
>writing in MFC, provided of course
>There is a file format and of course some sort of load/save functionality,
>which I would be willing also to
>write, or whatever.  

Great!  As you can tell, it's been pretty quiet and we haven't decided on a
file format or any sort of scheme for simplifying the gui creation scheme.
Let's get started on that now.

One thing I have suggested is a resource manager class or combination of
classes.  It would be like a registry for the different components so the
application wouldn't need to explicity handle creating and deleting the
component objects.  So instead of:

  CUI_Widget *test = new CUI_Widget();
  // init
  // add to frame

it would be something like (rough idea)

  registry.add( F_CUI_Widget, "main_title" );
  registry.get( "main_frame )->AddChild( registry.get( "main_title" ) );

Hmm... Something more intuitive would be nice.  The important point is that
you could just get a const pointer whenever you needed it and not have to
worry about keeping global pointers.

>I'm pretty busy with college right now but I should still be able to put in
>a decent amount of work.  Basically
>What I'm saying is I'd like to get something done, if you could tell me
>where I could be most effective I would
>Be happy to get started.

A resource editor would be very helpful.  Other than that, anything that
comes up that you'd like to add or fix, go for it.

Do you have a sourceforge account?

Here are a few other points I'd like to make:
	* I'd like to try to keep the documentation (the tech design) as up to
date as possible.  What I think would be best would be to adopt a
commenting style that a code processor can use.  Right now, it takes a
considerable amount of time.  I'm willing to take an afternoon to convert
all the existing code, but any new stuff would need to adhere to whatever
commenting style necessary.
	* Let's get started on deciding on the file format.  Any ideas?
	* Basically any ideas for new features and widgets.  Sourceforge has some
great resources for handling all this, so I'll try to get a task list set
up once we decide on what to work on.


Scott Franke [druid-]
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