CEGUI (Crazy Eddie's GUI) Forums

It happens! I spent a day going crazy before I realised I was using scrollbar and slider interchangably. Since the interface is similar, it even half works, you just get really wierd virtual function call crashes. On this point: Currently dynamic_cast seems to be disabled. Is it disabled deliberatel...

Ok, I had one more play with it, and it does offer an improvement even in general cases. To stress it out, I added this snippet of code to sample7. The patch brings it up from 100fps to 150fps or so on dx8. // Add static images static const int NUM_EXTRA_IMAGES = 200; for (int extra=0; extra<NUM...

Ok this patch works, I've actually tested it against a clean copy this time - note to self, should always clean and apply my own patch before submitting it! I've also investigated things more, and unfortunately, I don't think this patch will help in the general case much. The saving of the lock/unlo...

Ok, what I did was make up a patch purely with the optimisations, because the allocator changes also need an extra CEGUIAllocator.h file, and it is already part of the resubmitted rotation patch (the one I made up a few weeks ago). The changes were done for both the dx8 and dx9 renderer. The sample ...

I'll make up a patch next week. To clarify my question, the four changes I have so far are: - rotation support - constructor flag that skips render state setup - ability to supply a custom allocator - the above 2 optimisations I can make up a patch just with the 2 optimisations, or with the lot, or ...

Jezzz. All this frustration for a simple dialog box that says Are you sure you want to exist? Yes No

Thats a pretty deep question to ask people. Do they have a choice?

I've been doing some profiling, and came up with a few improvements for the DirectX8.1 renderer. I've already optimised it previously, so it allocs from a custom allocator (avoiding lots of news/frees per frame), and passed in a flag so it doesn't set all the render states - I can do that externally...

Ok, so those properties look pretty good for any data driving of custom widgets. Good stuff!

As for subclassing Falagard, obviously the system is itself still under development, but I thought I'd throw the idea out there.

One concern I've had was how to make a data-driven widget outside the normal Falagard domain - for example the analog clock widget that was proposed a while back. It doesn't fit the Falagard mould, but it does need some data driving. I think the properties in LookNFeel are exactly what is needed her...

SkyTracks has been released, at www.hotboxgames.com . It uses CEGUI for the menus and in-game overlays, with the DirectX8 renderer. Mainly its a modified version of the TaharezLook stuff, with a couple of small additions - buried in there is a single use of a rotating static image for the radar. So,...

This is a very interesting series of challenges. I'd be interested to see how you go implementing them! The main thing it looks like you need is rotation support for images and the ability for the render to draw lines - or perhaps rotated, stretched, images (using an image of a nice line segment). I...

Now I'm a little confused. Which secret tool is CE working on, or is it a secret?

Seems I've arrived a little late on this, but perhaps we could thrash out what the problems are in having an editor that uses CEGUI itself. One of the huge advantages is that is its WYSIWYG. No matter what wacky widgets have been created (either as standard, or as game-specific add-ons in a dll), an...

Are these skins going to be publically available for use in produced games? It would be nice to have a wide selection for all those indie developers out there who need a GUI. As is, CEGUI is already the best choice, but it would be even better with a dozen or so themes ready to go out of the box. It...

Thats true. I assumed that all exceptions should descend from a common root, thus avoiding the completely worthless catch(...) statement. However perhaps the std::exception hierarchy is expected to be used for the standard set of exceptions only, and other libraries should not share the common root....