OpenGL Game GUI & Widget Development (Alpha Demo)

Today I am going to share some progress on my GUI project.

The Design Goals were:

• Simplicity : Create a control in one line
• Easy Skinning support
• TTF and UTF8 support
• Directory : Controls can be accessed by a tree structure
• Direct access of all data members like if a button is pressed e.g.
• No Event Loop
• Static non-blocking visualization
• Dialog Templates from ressource text file
• Callback support 

Some simple examples:

Creating a window: gui.window["idname"]=Gui::Window("Title",100,100,250,350);

Closing a window: gui.window.erase("idname");

Adding a button : gui.window["idname"].button["load"]=Gui::Button("Load",20,20,50,30);

Change the skin of a window or other control:

gui.window["idname"].skin=Skin("normal.png","hover.png","selected.png");

There is no need to create a variable for most cases. The GUI handles that for you. It will cover basic functions that a required in a game. Its not optimized for speed, yet fast enough in most cases.

You can fetch an alpha demo of the gui here : [ DOWNLOAD ]

I will post more details soon.