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

[Nate M. <nkm...@ca...>]

I have some suggestions for miscellaneous features we could add :
- Edit boxes, multi-line or single
- List box
- Sliders
- Checkboxes

One thing we need to straighten out is what compiler people are running.  I
know the workspace file is from VC++ 5.0 but I am running 6.0.  When I
grabbed the updated "CUI_FixedBMFont.cpp" file from source forge I could no
longer compile the project because NULL is used rather than 0 in many
places, which VC++ 6.0 doesn't like.  I know NULL and 0 are the same, but I
guess VC++ 6.0 is picky.  What should we do about this?  I could get it to
compile if I went through and changed all the NULL's to 0's, but it may
create problems on the older versions of VC++.  Maybe we could #define
GUINULL 0 or something like that and use it rather than NULL or 0 and we
could avoid the problems.

Nate Miller

----- Original Message -----
From: <sf...@gl...>
To: <glg...@li...>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Glgui-dev] Hi, what's up


> 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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> http://www.gljournal.org
>
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