Am 2012-07-24 15:43, schrieb James Turner: > Oh, I remembered the other 'difficult' widget - the scrolling lists and > (related) multi-line text. My feeling was that osgText was going to > handle multi-line text fairly badly, and this might be an issue. We > don't have many multi-line text widgets, but they're some useful ones - > e.g. the Nasal console.
I have just experimented a bit with osgText and multi-line text. So far I didn't notice any problems. >> Regarding canvas, I think that that is definitively the way to go for >> stuff like the map widget, but to be honest I have my doubts whether >> it would be suitable for the entire gui. I must admit though, so far >> I've only read the documentation on the wiki, so I haven't played >> around with it yet. > > Right, canvas makes more sense for the map-widget and replacing the old > OpenGL calls in the HUD is my feeling; to build something compatible with > the current GUI using the canvas might be possible, but is a lot of work. But using the Canvas also for the GUI would give us the advantage of a unified rendering backend for any type of GUI/text rendering and also the ability to use the same widgets everywhere - eg. use them also inside aircrafts for CDU GUIs or other displays... I've done a quick proof of concept for a tabbed and scrollable widget (including some UTF-8 chars): http://youtu.be/1a6wtPVPWc4 https://gitorious.org/~tomprogs/fg/toms-fgdata/blobs/canvas/gui/dialogs/canvas-demo.xml Regards, Tom -- Thomas Geymayer www.tomprogs.at / C-Forum und Tutorial: www.proggen.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Student of Computer Science @ Graz University of Technology ------------------------------- Austria -------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
