A few months ago I made a post describing a piece of software I was
working on. Unfortunately, I've been very busy since then (Bioshock,
Halo 3, Orange Box, work...) and haven't had much time to work on it.
However, the last few weeks I've been spending a bit of my free time
working on it again, starting from scratch, and have come to a point
where I'm ready to at least "put it out there" and see what people
think.
Thus far osgHUD is very primitive, and doesn't support nearly the
feature set it eventually will. The basics are there though, and the
main point of my posting it here is to get opinions on the progression
of the software and get some ideas/advice for what I can change.
You can find the SVN 0.1.0 tag here:
svn co http://osghud.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0.1.0 osgHUD
...I wouldn't recommend using trunk, as it is often broken. I only test
and develop on Linux using GCC & ICC, but nothing about the code is
Linux-centric. To build it, just do:
# cd build
# ccmake ..
3 small examples are provided: osghud{box, window, label}, which
demonstrate some of the basic functionality of the current state of
osgHUD. osghudwindow is heavily commented, and a great place to start
checking things out.
The following is a short list of what will be included in 0.2.0, which I
will hopefully be done with over the weekend:
- Table-like layouts (think HTML tables)
- The ability to hide/show Widgets.
- A "DecoratedWindow" subclass of osgHUD::Window, which will
provide the standard titlebar, open/close/minimize, resize,
etc. of a standard "window."
Of course, there is MUCH more to do before osgHUD is ready for serious
submission into OSG, but this should give people a good idea of where I
plan on taking it in the next few days or so...
Please feel free to post feedback here or send me e-mail directly. Also
note that some of the current code is less concrete and more an
experiment in using C++ "functionally" (i.e., std::accumulate,
std::for_each, etc.) I can remove these instances if people find them
distasteful.
Also, there are two other projects I host on Google, osgCairo and
osgEgypt, which some people might find interesting (and which I've
talked about on these lists a few months back).
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