Hi Kartik,
I had a look at Agar and I didn't find it that useful. One would stick with
just another UI framework, that runs on SDL and has another design
philosophy (GUI around the app, not vice versa).
In the end, you still face the question, how you would do it yourself. Have
a look at current games. Starcraft has its own kind of menu with a rotating
planet and a hover event, warcraft series has some sort of animated moving
menu (with hover, too) and battlefield 1942 even has a video as background
(which I find quite fascinating, is this possible with SDL, too?). They
don't use the same set of UI items. But they all use the same kind of logic.
There are UI items and events attached to them. How they are forged,
drawn, if they are 3d models or surfaces doesn't matter. That's where the
interesting part begins. How do you create such an interactive item? And how
to use it? And would there be other ways of doing it? Maybe a gentle reader
would explore such a way.
The single thing I really would appreciate out of the Agar package would be
the table, as I imagine this a whole lot of work. I would like to use a
drop-in for that :)
Please note: I hope my word choice doesn't sound that negative, it isn't
intended that way. English is simply not my native language.
Best regards,
Alex
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: Kartik Thakore [mailto:thakore.kar...@gmail.com]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Januar 2012 15:13
An: Alexander Becker
Cc: chroma...@wgz.org; sdl-devel@perl.org
Betreff: Re: Revamping SDL_Manual
On 2012-01-10, at 2:03 AM, Alexander Becker cap...@gmx.de wrote:
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.
Perhaps getting Agar working again in perl will help? Http://libagar.org/
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.
Hmm we would love it if you can provide feedback/issues on the SDLx::Widgets
github site.
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).
Seems like a good idea. Thanks.
hth,
Alex
Kartik
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
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