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Hah,fair enough.

I did have to fill out a form to register on the forum, and, in turn, the Wiki, though

I get that part, CEGUI simply seems be in a sort of "uncanny valley" where good intentions from newcomers might just turn sour by trying to do what they can on their own before bothering others. I didn't pick up CEGUI to be a raging ahole on a forum, I wanted to be nice, etc... but then th...

Thanks, after completely ignoring anything but the code, I have made quite a bit of progress.
I don't want to jinx anything, though. I'm gonna delete my other, more vitriolic post, it was born from true helpnessness, but making leeway helped.

Edit: The documentation confused me quite a bit and I scratched everything up until that point. My findings so far, cause I don't want to make the next guy wonder about things like I have wondered so many times. I am currently embedding images into widgets, at runtime, using C++ code, and the OpenGL...

I ended up using the "unstable" development version, after pampering it's little butt a bit. (There was some windows only code in it¹, and a few bugs) So I guess the sample collectino in the "mature stable version" uses a different way of using IL/ILU. How? i don't bloody know. T...

Maybe I'm just stupid or maybe this library can be really obtuse, in any case, I'm cheesed off because of this tutorial. http://cegui.org.uk/wiki/Menu_and_Popup To be precise, this part of it: To add menuitems runtime to a popupMenu you add a CEGUI::Window childWindow to the popupMenu. You don't cre...