On 30 Jul 2012, at 11:39, stefan riemens wrote: > On a different note: window management. > I've seen that in Tom's private branch, he has started on a window > class (albeit, it is just a skeleton currently). > I think we indeed want a c++ window manager, which is basically just a > dumb "visible thing that renders a texture". > That way, the canvas code only has to render stuff to a texture and > expose that, which is a nice abstraction point. >
Agreed - I was planning to dive into adapting the window on Tom's branch, with a C++ host for a canvas. Note that the canvas currently assumes render-to-texture, but for the GUI I'm not sure that's actually desirable - simply a separate camera per GUI window may be sufficient. Since the camera already arranges everything beneath the RTT camera this should be fairly minor change, if it's desirable. (Saves some memory, makes re-sizing GUI windows a little easier, might make clipping or other state management less efficient in the main GUI camera ... but probably not) > So, given all that, where can I jump in to help? I must admit that I'm > primarily interested in C++ development, > rather than writing nasal ;( Same here :) I need to spend some time on Mac release engineering, so I'm happy for you to work with Tom on 'window manager' - I'd suggest starting with the current GUICamera code, and especially the osgWidget base class. In particular my goal is to be able to kill off fg_os.hxx in the near future, i.e to have all events being passed into the canvas as osgGA types, not the old GLUT interface of raw x/y floats. 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
