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User Interface

Started by vbisme May 22, 2003 at 12:27 PM 0 replies 300+ views

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May 22, 2003 at 12:27 PM

Could anyone give me any insight on developing a user interface? How you would go about design it so that it is general? Would you have UI objects that keep track of Menu objects which keep track of controls such as button? Should controls be made from a general interface?

Spacecat

May 22, 2003 at 1:17 PM

I recommend you have a look at this article.
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/features/gui/

And after having built one, I recommend the following: Have all your ''GUI'' objects contain a small state machine to figure out when they''ve been clicked, dragged, double-clicked etc... And thanks to virutal inheritance, make it so any ''mouse event'' like this rolls a function of the GUI that needs only be defined.

In the first GUI I made, I''d have several functions called ''MouseDown'', ''MouseClick'' and so on. In hindsight, I''d suggest making one ''MouseEvent'' function that receives two or three DWORDS with the first indicating the event type. Generally, those generic messages are a great way to communicate between objects.

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