Making some cheezy menus

Paul Dolhai · 2002-04-15T02:36:15+00:00

Hey, I was wondering if the best/easiest way to make a simple HUD for a game was to draw it in Photoshop or whatever, load it as a texture and blit it to the screen every game loop. Thanks Paul

Paul,
That is the simplest way to do it, however its not very reusable. A new menu will have to be hand drawn every time and code will have to be added to handle any buttons on the menu.

A more reusable method would be to write individual buttons and controls. You then place these on a screen via code or a data file. (Think of all the GUI builders where you just drag and drop buttons on a form).
~Rufe

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