Tuesday, March 8, 2011

GUI

It was a complicated year. My job goes well, but this kill any spare time about Tau Ceti
Anyway, after a long pause, i've restarted (again!) to work on it and i've inserted, finally, a good GUI engine.
It's the CEGUI project, that is a "free library providing windowing and widgets for graphics APIs / engines where such functionality is not natively available, or severely lacking. The library is object orientated, written in C++, and targeted at games developers who should be spending their time creating great games, not building GUI sub-systems!".
There's a visual editor and you can insert LOTS of widgets: buttons, checkbox, dropbox, text area, and so on.. i've integrated it into Tau Ceti and it works.
For now i've added a single button: "QUIT" :) but works well and is very easy to manage, and it integrates perfectly inside the 3d scene.
When i've a more complex scene, i'll show you some examples.

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