Hi Kartik, I recently started working with the SDL Manual, but I don't have a game in mind. Regardless of that, I find it very useful to see the things you can do with SDL demonstrated with games. What I'm missing so far, and what is part of every game, too, is UI stuff. How do buttons work with SDL, how do you change the state of a button element (normal, active, hover, diabled, etc.) and how do you encapsulate such UI elements properly.
Basically, I'm still experimenting to find a way to create a good button class for a menu. I know there is a package out there that provides methods for drawing menus, but especially when writing your own games / apps, I guess one might want to implement its own kind of menu with nifty nice effects, layout and so on. So this is my idea: add a chapter on UI elements (not only buttons, but (high-score-tables, text fields etc.). Unfortunately, all I can add to this project so far (I'm still a SDL n00b) are possibly dumb questions. For example, I don't know how to adjust a text on a surface for a button. By adjusting, I mean something like aligning to the left or the right or automatically splitting the text up an breaking into a new line when a given with would be exceeded (I'm generating buttons with unknown text length, which is quite problematic). hth, Alex -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:34:25 -0500 > Von: Kartik Thakore <thakore.kar...@gmail.com> > An: sdl-devel@perl.org, chromatic <chroma...@wgz.org> > Betreff: Revamping SDL_Manual > Hello guys, > > So as I have gotten busy over the last couple months with my startup and > masters the SDL Manual has fell behind, and I would like to ask if anyone > is interested in taking on writing new chapters or reorganizing SDL > Manual. > We can discuss any new chapters to add and work with reorganize it. An > idea > I have is to change the name to Perl Game Development and incorporate more > then just SDL chapters into the manual. Any suggestions are welcome! > > Regards, > Kartik -- NEU: FreePhone - 0ct/min Handyspartarif mit Geld-zurück-Garantie! Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone
