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

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

At 01:28 PM 4/3/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>I have some suggestions for miscellaneous features we could add :
>- Edit boxes, multi-line or single
>- List box
>- Sliders
>- Checkboxes

Yes, those would be nice to have.  Sliders and Checkboxes would be pretty
simple, the others should probably have a more flexible font class before
we write them.

>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.

Hmm.. That's odd.  No point in making it more complex than it should be.
When the update comes from Keith, I'll change all those.

We could probably get started on a few of those features even without
Keith's changes.  Check box, sliders, interactive progress bar, and a
better font.  Any takers?  The 3 widgets are pretty simple, any ideas on
what a good font needs to have?

Another issue I'd like to address is abstracting the rendering out of the
main classes into some Renderer class.  That will make it more useful
across APIs as well as easier to plug into an existing engine.


Scott Franke [druid-]
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