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seltar
GUI library in progress, any requests?
May 21st, 2006, 9:09pm  
http://wliia.org/projects/gui
this is the library so far, and i want to add more. Anybody got anything to contribute, or ideas for anything I can code?

thanks
-seltar
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jhv2
Re: GUI library in progress, any requests?
Reply #1 - May 22nd, 2006, 1:06am  
This is so cool, thanks for organizing and implimenting this work.  No requests, just hoping the good karma is paying off for you.

Peace,

J
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rgovostes
Re: GUI library in progress, any requests?
Reply #2 - May 22nd, 2006, 2:05am  
Looks good so far. I'd just like to point out that on your Off|On switch, it is difficult to tell which is selected - if On is black, does that mean it's selected? Or is it selected when it's white?
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seltar
Re: GUI library in progress, any requests?
Reply #3 - May 22nd, 2006, 7:48am  
that button is based off Ants in exhibition, but I do see your point.. i'll to fix that somehow Smiley

and i thought i should try to keep the style, but i'll see where it goes. perhaps just as the default. we'll see

thanks for the kind words Smiley

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st33d
Re: GUI library in progress, any requests?
Reply #4 - May 22nd, 2006, 10:24am  
A few suggestions:

Some shells for drag and drop items? Perhaps give the user the option of setting the graphic. I'm always having to write "draggable" classes.

A radial slider? Like the volume knob on one's stereo. I'd guess you would create a band or ring and highlight a segment of it to drag around.

Message boxes? Somewhat like the Javascript prompt command that some idiots key into the right mouseclick on web-pages.  Not everyone knows how to bring up the Java console to see error messages and warnings.

Radial / check boxes? Like on html forms.
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seltar
Re: GUI library in progress, any requests?
Reply #5 - May 25th, 2006, 1:57pm  
Updated alot! Let me know what you think..
http://wliia.org/projects/gui

still not quite finished.. lacking checkboxes, fixing the on-off switch.
The message box is draggable, and i'm going to implement that on all the other elements as well.. But now everything is controlled by a general style class, which has possibilities to change on different events.. (as you can see if you click and drag the messagebox)

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jhv2
Re: GUI library in progress, any requests?
Reply #6 - Jun 2nd, 2006, 9:18pm  
Again, very cool stuff.  Thanks for doing all this.  The message box is an especially nice touch.  

I am a new user, and very much hope you have a moment to document this with examples, becuase I would certianly strongly appreciate every word of documentation.  I'm sure others would too.

Can I ask why you decided to make the knob element based on mouse-dragging in the x-direction?  I don't know if a convention exists; I just wonder if adjusting it radially, based on the angle between the knob center and the mouse position might be more intuitive.

Thank you again.

J
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brendn
Re: GUI library in progress, any requests?
Reply #7 - Aug 15th, 2006, 2:47am  
It seems there are at least three different projects for a GUI library at this point. I started what I think is the first, Interfascia (http://www.thbbpt.net/interfascia/), but I couldn't do development on my own while in school. It would be nice to combine efforts, I'm sure duplication of code is an unpleasant thought to all programmers.

I like what I see. I have a few things up my sleeve with Interfascia, perhaps a discussion of roadmaps for the different projects would be nice.
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