your preference on gui?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 10:51 pm

hey all just wondering on what ur preference on gui would be

would u prefer making a button and setting it an image?

or making an image and putting an invisible button on top of it?

second choice i suggested cause then you could just have one big texture instead a texture for each button...but idk, ur thoughts plz

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 10:58 pm

i would go for the second

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:08 am

gotcha, sounds good,thanks!

Masdus · Post by **Masdus** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:37 am

The choice i think would depend completely on the style and look you are going for with your GUI. For me it is best to make a button with and individual image, as i can then easily and quickly change the image for things like mouse hover and button pressed.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:16 pm

oh that reminds me, how would u change it for mouseover?

Harry_Mystic · Post by **Harry_Mystic** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 7:32 pm

The easiest way I found was to create a new class derivered from IGUIButton, copy the code from CGUIButton.h and .cpp and then start changing/adding functions depending what I need. So it is a button with an image.

About mouseover, in the button OnEvent I've putted something like this:

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case EET_GUI_EVENT:
		if (event.GUIEvent.EventType == gui::EGET_ELEMENT_HOVERED)
		{
			MouseOver = true;
		}
		else if (event.GUIEvent.EventType == gui::EGET_ELEMENT_LEFT)
		{
			MouseOver = false;	
		}
		break;

And in the draw function check if mouseover and draw the right image/texture.

Don't know another way to do this but is works. Oh, and you need a function setImageForMouseOver.

About "one image for all states" vs. "one image for each state":
you can have the 3 functions for each state and another one for 1 image for all states. Can't find any code at the moment , sorry.

Hope this helps