In the last time I've submitted several fixes to plib, all of which are now committed. It is now recommended to use plib/svn (HEAD). Here's a list of the most important changes:
- fix calculation of the slider handle size in <textbox> widgets (as used in the nasal-console, the joystick info, chat history, weather scenario) - autohide not used sliders (especially useful for the nasal console) - scroll a <textbox> automatically if lines where added and the slider handle is in the bottom position (especially useful for the chat history) - make sliders in <list>, <textbox> conform with the behavior of "modern" GUIs, that is: you can grab the handle anywhere and drag; if you click on the slider background, then it jumps one page. The old behavior was to immediately jump to the clicked upon position, and had the disadvantage the the slider didn't move *at all* before one reached the handle's reference point in the center. It's also recommended to set the plib version number to 1.8.6 in ./src/util/ul.h:157 (PLIB_TINY_VERSION from 5 to 6), so that dialog.cxx can use a few of the new features. Some of the dialog XML files were already adapted for PLIB 1.8.6, and will work better with it. They will, however, work with 1.8.5 as well. (Just worse. ;-) These contributions don't meant that the idea to suck up the remaining parts of PLIB into our repository has died. Occasionally, someone asks if/when we will migrate our GUI from PLIB to osgWidget. This is still planned, but at the moment it isn't an option. osgWidget offers only *very* simple GUI elements, basically just clickable colored rectangles and an input box. There's nothing like a listbox, multiline-textedit field. Everything is plain, without any 3D look. Also, osgWidget is still under heavy development, or was, as the lead developer just took some time off. m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
