[Glgui-dev] progress

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

It's been a while since I've emailed this list, so I thought I'd let
everyone know how development is going.

I've now finished all the elements and high-level controls I'm planning on
working on for the beta release.  Here's the list:
elements:
 frame
 draggable frame
 draggable view frame
 widget (textlabel)
 button
 multiple state button
 resize button
 progress bar
 slider bar
 text box
 editable text box
controls:
 combobox
 console (just finished it)
 list box
 menus
 message box
 radio group
 scrollable frame
 scrollable text box
 text field (1-line)

This includes some very sophisticated and useful gui components.  The
console has associated functions and variables that it keeps track of.  It
also supports creating aliases within the console and command history and
command completion.

The last bit of functionality I'm adding is file input based on the XML
schema you can view at the glgui.sourceforge.net page.  It's slightly out
of date, but that's the general idea.

I think a few other things are necessary before the project is promoted to
beta status.

1) Good high-level documentation is absolutely necessary for it
to be useful to anyone.

2) Some sort of code review.  Up until now it's been a nearly 100% one-man
project and I'd appreciate anytime spent looking over the code to fix bugs
or other problems.

3) More platform support.  I added a new developer today to help maintain
mac support, but that's still only two platforms with only opengl.  If I
have some free time I might try to get a version running on my linux
computer, but I've only done limited opengl development on it, so it will
take some time.
   At some point I'll probably write a version for PTC (software renderer
- www.gaffer.org/ptc/) and maybe BeOS if I have a chance to play around
with it again.  Keith was planning on writing a d3d renderer, any word on
that Keith?  Renderer and SimpleShader conversion shouldn't be too
difficult for most platforms.  And beyond that, it's just a matter of
making sure the C++ code doesn't cause any problems.

4) A better sample showing off how nice-looking (as well as
functional) GUIs built with glGUI can be.

Beyond those points, it will probably be a few months before I can start
working on an editor.  It would probably be java based so it too would be
cross platform.


I encourage everyone to check out the latest version on CVS, or download
the latest version if you don't want to see the console, and see where the
project is at and where it still needs work.


Thanks,

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