17 Jan
2004
17 Jan
'04
6:42 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:13:42 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote:
It would work, XUL + ECMAScript is quite a powerful environment (I've built
some significant apps in it), but it only really makes text based widgets
easy to manipulate, and its sloooow.
A system like
this for describing plugin GUIs using XML, PNGs and OpenGL
(but extensible in C + OpenGL) is on my list of future projects, but
wether it will ever get to the top is another matter. The general
lack of interest in linux UIs, and lack of skilled graphic designers
with time to spare is a bit of a problem.
I don't know it, and it's not opengl, but would something based on XUL work?
They've probably done most of the hard work already. I'm currently working on an opengl user interface
for a game I'm writing. Once
you get a scenegraph set up (so child widgets inherit parent transforms etc)
it's not too hard to get something working.
Agreed. I'm half ported meterbridge to OpenGL and the code is actually
simpler (and /much/ faster, even on my ageing laptop) than the native SDL
drawing code.
I wouldnt want to use OpenGL if you had a lot of things like scrolling
text panes, but plugin UIs are mostly sliders, meters and graph displays
which are all easy to do in OpenGL + pixmaps.
- Steve