Drawing 2d image in Window?

[Magus_Stragus]

Hey there. I need to draw an 2d image (a texture) in a window, instead of the environment. I found that the element IGUIWindow doesn't have a method to do that. How, then, do I do it?

Thanks for the help.

[nmn]

Hey there. I need to draw an 2d image (a texture) in a window, instead of the environment. I found that the element IGUIWindow doesn't have a method to do that. How, then, do I do it?

Thanks for the help.

IVideoDriver::draw2DImage() ?

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		virtual void draw2DImage(const video::ITexture* texture, const core::rect<s32>& destRect,
			const core::rect<s32>& sourceRect, const core::rect<s32>* clipRect = 0,
			video::SColor* colors=0, bool useAlphaChannelOfTexture=false) = 0;

It should work...

[Magus_Stragus]

That draws me the image in the environment, not in the Window.

[Ion Dune]

Why not use IGUIImage?

[dlangdev]

Hey there. I need to draw an 2d image (a texture) in a window, instead of the environment. I found that the element IGUIWindow doesn't have a method to do that. How, then, do I do it?

Thanks for the help.

What do you mean window? Like a HWND? Is that what you want to get a pointer to HWND?

I may look smart, but I'm actually stupid.

[Magus_Stragus]

Why not use IGUIImage?

Hmm... I could, but I need to use the draw2DImage function. (I'm using the Animated Sprite code found in the Code Snippets). Anyone?

[nmn]

Why not use IGUIImage?

Hmm... I could, but I need to use the draw2DImage function. (I'm using the Animated Sprite code found in the Code Snippets). Anyone?

It should draw regardless of 3D transformations if I get what you mean... But I guess I don't know.

It's probably not impossible to port your existing code to use IGUIImage, though, if there are no workarounds.

[hybrid]

If you really need some special case og GUI element just throw together your own one. Simply copy the code from CGUIImage or CGUIWindow with the functions you need.

[Magus_Stragus]

I don't think I get what you meant, but I'll try.

What I want is simple: when you use draw2DImage(), it draws a 2d image to the environment (the Irrlicht main window.) Now, I wat to draw an image to a window I created, not the main one (let's say, like a window holding the status of a character in a game), how can I do that, is my question.

[vitek]

You need to use a gui element. Either write your own that calls draw2DImage() or use IGUIImage.

Travis

[nmn]

Oh, I finally understand - The GUI environment's window.

Can't you manually draw it after you drawAll the GUI environment? I haven't tried it so It's probably a stupid suggestion.

[ehenkes]

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=30199
could be helpful. If you need to move (x,y) fix it mathematically (delta_x, delta_y) to the left corner of the parent window. I do that with own context menus fixed to characters. It's easy. If you need images in the 3D-space, use billboards instead.

[vitek]

If you don't draw it at the right time, you'll never be able to control the z-order. The easiest way to do this is to use a gui element.

Travis

[Magus_Stragus]

So, you're telling me that's impossible to use draw2DImage on a GUI element? What a bummer...
Well, then I shall use IGUIImage. Thanks for the help.

[bitplane]

What Travis means is that it's impossible to draw other GUI elements over the top of a draw2dImage call if you draw your GUI using gui->drawAll(), you need to insert your draw2dImage call into the GUI so it will draw in the correct order.

So you just have to make a custom IGUIElement and add it to the GUI environment in pretty much the same way that you would make a custom scene node (example 3). To see how to do it, just steal the code to any other GUI element (CGUISomething.cpp/h) from the source directory, make the changes you want, create it ( new CGUISomething(...) ) and of course remember to drop() it.

Once you've learned how to do that, you can add any new fancy widget you can imagine.