Tutorials

CrazyEddie's Beginner Guides

• The Beginner Guide to Getting CEGUI Rendering - How to initialise CEGUI to render properly.
• The Beginner Guide to Loading Data Files and Initialisation - How to load some data files and perform basic system initialisation.
• The Beginner Guide to Creating a CEGUI Window - How to create a simple window and get it on screen.
• The Beginner Guide to Injecting Inputs - How to inject inputs into CEGUI and get interactive.

Scripting with CEGUI

• Getting Started with Lua and CEGUI - How to initialise CEGUI with a Lua script module and configuration file.
• Handling Events from Lua - How to load Lua script files and bind CEGUI events to Lua functions.
• Writing CEGUI scripts - Code snippets
• Adding LuaScriptModule to Sample_FirstWindow - Experience adding scripting to an existing sample.
• Creating a scriptable interface using CEGUI

Window System Examples

• Using CEGUI with SDL and OpenGL - Guidelines on how to get SDL, OpenGL and CEGUI running together.
• Using CEGUI with Producer and OpenGL - Guidelines on how to render and inject input to CEGUI from the Producer API.
• Using CEGUI with Qt/QGLViewer
• Using CEGUI with GLUT - Some tips on using OpenGL's GLUT with CEGUI.

Extending CEGUI

• Using Expat XML parser within CEGUI - How to add support for another XML parser.

Skins - Tutorial For Artists

• Creating Skins - Extra notes for artists on how to create skins.
• The Beginners Guide to Falagard skinning - Part I - Learn by doing a Button.
• The Beginners Guide to Falagard skinning - Part II - More Falagard fun, this time with the Editbox.

Overviews

• Overview of GUI files - A quick introduction to all the XML files used by CEGUI.
• Overview of resource system enhancements in 0.5.0 - Introduction to enhancements made for the 0.5.0 release.

Miscellaneous HOW-TOs

• Create ImageButtons - A few different ways to create image buttons.
• Create a CheckListboxItem - Create a CheckListBoxItem that you can use with ItemListbox.
• Identifying Multiple Event Sources From A Single Callback
• Cool_window_effects - A collection of cool "special" effects on (frame)windows.