Gui Widgets

[Sadez]

I added support for gui widgets and made a label widget. It has been implemented like it was said in a an thread in the old forums.

 

TODO:

- More widgets: Image, button, checkbox, vertical scroll bar at least.

- XML format for easily creating windows.

- Server windows. With the XML format it will be possible to create windows sending the XML data. This could be useful for an npc to display quest information for example.

[frak]

thatll be great for the python binding!

[Cicero]

Careful with XML defined windows . . . didn't M$ recently patent that?

[Wytter]

Careful with XML defined windows . . . didn't M$ recently patent that?

Hmm, I know that they've patented file formats for Office that uses xml - but do you have a link for that information?

I've actually been working on using xml to create GTK2-windows for a while (just for generic configuration tool usage), and well - if that's true I'd have to find a server in Asia to host the source once it's more mature...

 

Software patents are evil...

[Cicero]

Actually, I think it was an XML based installer or something.

 

I wouldn't worry about it, I was just joking around. I'm surprised they haven't tried to patent XML.

[Wytter]

Ah good... Would hate to see that work go down the drain... :-)

When it comes to software patents I have a hard time figuring out the difference between what's a joke and what isn't - I mean, patenting the double-click?

[Entropy]

The over text Widget should be on a dark gray background (as it was before), otherwise it's hard to read.

[Sadez]

Added checkbox and image widgets.

[Sadez]

Button, progressbar and vertical scrollbar are done. Thats the basic set of widgets I had planned, they still need some polishing but I'll wait until I do the XML format for the windows.

[Sadez]

Added support for XML windows.

 

Here is an example:

 

win = AddXMLWindow("test.xml");

 

<window name="window1" pos_x="100" pos_y="100" size_x="100" size_y="300" flags="821">
<label pos_x="0" pos_y="20" text="se se se" r="1.0" g="0.0" b="0.0" size="0.7"/>
<image pos_x="0" pos_y="40" len_x="40" len_y="40"/>
<checkbox pos_x="50" pos_y="100" len_x="20" len_y="20" r="1.0" g="0.0" b="0.0" checked="1" />
<button pos_x="10" pos_y="120" text="si si si"/>
<progressbar pos_x="5" pos_y="140" len_x="200" len_y="20" progress="50" />
<vscrollbar pos_x="50" pos_y="70" len_x="20" len_y="200" pos="0" pos_inc="4" />
</window>

[Entropy]

Stupid question: How do you get the feedback from a xml window? I mean, the callbacks and such.

[Sadez]

You need to assign an id to the widget:

<button id="666" pos_x="10" pos_y="120" text="si si si"/>

Then you create the window and set the callback function

win = AddXMLWindow("test.xml");
widget_set_OnClick(win,666,clika);

the callback looks like this (it just increases the position by 10 each click):

int clika(widget_list *w){
w->pos_x+=10;
return 0;
}

Edited October 27, 2004 by Sadez