Re: [Glgui-dev] ListBox & other ideas

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From: "sfranke" <sf...@us...>
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Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 9:05 PM
Subject: [Glgui-dev] ListBox & other ideas


> 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.

I'm all for bells-and-whistles features that can be simply implemented and
do not eat a significant amount of CPU time. Anyway, the more "feature rich"
controls would probably be used only for the pre-game menus, with the
simpler controls actually needed for the in-game stuff. Pre-game menus
really do need of the controls and features that can be mustered, in order
to look professional (if you see what I mean).

Regards,

Keith Harrison
SiO2 Software.
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