[Glgui-dev] ListBox & other ideas

[sfranke <sf...@us...>]

I decided to make listbox a control after all.  It makes more sense, it
uses buttons, etc to build itself - and this is how I've defined controls
(kind of a higher-level GUI component).  Hmm.. the semantics of this are
probably needlessly complex.

Anyway, listbox is done, which includes sublists.  I'll probably break off
the sublist functionality and put it in a CUI_Menu inherited from
CUI_ListBox.

I'm also planning on a fairly big change that will let CUI_Frame's (every
GUI component) to have a pointer to the UI to which it belongs.  This will
expose a whole lot of functionality to the components.  The initial reason
I decided to do this was so that the List/Menu can make one of it's
sublists selected so key commands are processed there.  There's no way to
do that without the change I will be working on.

It also opens up a lot of other possibilities.  All frame adding will be
moved to go through CUI_UI (including subframes of controls which normally
couldn't), so CUI_UI can do some extra stuff to the frames as they're
added.  Enabling and disabling will also go through CUI_UI so (with a few
other changes) it will be simple to add fly-in or fade-in effects for
when a frame becomes visible.

Yeah, it's a bells and whistles feature, but it's simple once a required
feature is added, so I don't see any drawbacks.  There are probably lots
of other possibilities that this allows that I haven't realized yet.


Anyone have any comments on this or has this list turned into my personal
dev diary?

Scott Franke [druid-]
 sf...@gl...