On 21 Jul 2012, at 21:46, stefan riemens wrote: > Obviously, I think the best choice of these is to switch to osgWidget, > and I'm willing to take that task upon me. > I've made a clone on Gitorious, with a osgWidget MenuBar > implementation. Its currently pretty quick and dirty, and looks > absolutely horrible, but it (mostly) works. > https://gitorious.org/~stefanriemens/fg/stefanriemens-flightgear > > Before pushing further with it, I'd like to hear other devs opinions > on how to go forwards...
I've got about 25% of option 1) done in a private branch. I believe 4) (using osgWidget) is not great because osgWidget is essentially unfinished, unmaintained and has no examples of the kind of widgets we actually need - sliders, combo boxes, dials and so on. The great advantage of porting PLIB is that the we already use its API, and it already implements all the widgets we need :) I did start using osgWidget, and realised to create scrollbars, combo-boxes and sliders that work, and then port all the dialog / menu code to use the new API, was a huge amount of work, and would require updating all the dialog XML definitions. I am hopeful (though not sure) that I can make approach 1) and keep all the existing generic and aircraft-specific dialog XML files looking 'okay' and working as intended. My assumption is to make osgWidget do what we need, you will *have* to fork it (although you may be able to upstream the changes if they are generic enough) and will spend a lot of time creating all the widgets we need. If you disagree, I am more than happy to help and collaborate, but I'd like to see proof-of-concept code, say, a combo-box and scrollbar before agreeing you can do it :) James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
