From:	Vic <tudor AT cam DOT org>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	New GUI?
Date:	Sat, 07 Mar 1998 11:45:44 +0200
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Hey, it seems everybody is doing one these days, and so am I :)
Now, seriously, I got interested in the "who wants win95 look for
allegro" thread and I started my own 3D looking windoze like GUI.
Is there any interest in a new one?
The reason I did this is, well, I didn't like the others.
Some of them look nice (like Degui for example) but they are based on
Allegro. I don't like the allegro GUI cause
1: the buttons don't act like bloody buttons! (I mean, they act like a
checkbox only look different!)
2: you are trapped inside the dialog.(meaning you say do_dialog() and
that is it) The dialog draws directy on screen. If you want to add your
own thing on the screen you have to add a dialog procedure. etc.
So I coded for a couple of hours and I got the bases of a 3D GUI, where
buttons are buttons, and you just tell it to "update" itself on a
bitmap, and it will check for mouse and keyboard input, and draw itself.
The thing is based on a message system, it calls the object's MouseOver,
MouseDown etc.
Should I put the sources on the Web?
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