Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/05/18/16:02:07
Jeffrey Drake writes:
>Has anyone not liked the allegro gui?
>I think it doesn't look the best.
>ex: jagged button when mouse is moved over.
True enough. In my defense, though, I'd like to point out that it was
never intended to be a polished, 'finished' set of routines. I wrote it
primarily because I needed a user interface for the grabber, but tried
to make the code as reusable as I could. My goal was something that
would be small and simple but easily extendable, so individual coders
can customise the appearance to suit their personal taste...
>A friend and myself are working on some modifactions to the GUI
>objects including:
Sounds good to me. Before you start work, though, it would be worth
considering just how you plan to release this. I'm not going to offer to
merge it into the main Allegro distribution, because I think this sort
of polished GUI is quite a different beast to the basic framework that
I'm providing, and would be more useful as a separate package. You need
to decide whether to write it as a drop-in replacement for my GUI files
(this would run the risk of breaking with future versions of Allegro) or
as something that can be used together with my routines (this would
obviously require you to choose different names for the common
functions).
Good luck with it!
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