Skinnable GUI`s...?
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| Are there any form designers for Blitz+ or Blitz2D that allow you to create non windows standard looking GUI`s. ie. I dont want it to look like a VB app, more a skinnable kind of thing where I can make it look more "gamey". I have been using Blitz3D and BCF2, but the whole 100% CPU thing is a problem as I`m going to be running this in the background while another full game is played on the PC, so need all the CPU cycles I can get. I`ve looked through the Toolbox and most are either not what I`m after, discontinued or look like plain old Windows API GUI`s. Cheers for any help you can give. |
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| You can use a canvas and draw an image on it. If that image suggest a button, then you only need to check on mouse events on that canvas, and if you're 1337 then you alternate that canvas with another image, of a pressed-button orso. Works like a charm, in Blitzmax this is even more convenient and clean to do btw, but alas, not in B+ |
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| I'm pretty sure that someone has already written code for this and put it into the archives. You might want to check that before you try out CS_TBL. |
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| I only picked Blitz+ as I figured it had GUI commands built in. I don`t need any 3D (I`m writing a game that interfaces with another full 3D game that runs spereatley) so I figured someone may have done this already for Blitz+) |
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| It does have GUI functions built in... but they kind of suck compared to other languages. If there's something missing that you really need, then you need to either make a userlib or else use a cheap replacement like this one. Function skinwindow(window,backupimg) skin=CreateCanvas(0,0,ClientWidth(window),ClientHeight(window),window) SetGadgetLayout(skin,True,True,True,True) skinimg=CopyImage(backupimg) ResizeImage(skinimg,ClientWidth(skin),ClientHeight(skin)) SetBuffer(CanvasBuffer(skin)) DrawImage(skinimg,0,0) FlipCanvas(skin) Return skin End Function |
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