GUI alternatives...

[LordJonas]

Hi...

It seems that IrrlichtGUI is far from be a good choice since it's very limited.

I would like to know if there's other options available to use with Irrlicht and if someone had experienced them.

(sorry for my english... )

[jaeg]

If you are using Windows there is always Visual C++ or the raw Windows API. You can embed an Irrlicht rendering window into these forms.
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/example014.html

[WLGfx]

I've had partial success with Qt on Linux but when it came to Windows I had a few issues. Might go back to it some time and try again.

There's always wxWidgets too which I haven't yet tried out.

[Cube_]

CEGUI is good

[lymantok]

I've tried a couple with Irrlicht. Started with CEGUI 0.6, which met my needs. It's evolved considerably. I think Sudi posted a working example of librocket on the forums here, which is pretty interesting. Mygui is another.

http://www.cegui.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://librocket.com/wiki/documentation
http://mygui.info/

[LordJonas]

I'm tring to use CEGUI with Irrlicht but it looks that there is no examples available in the net...

If someone could point me to a piece of code showing how-to use cegui and irrlicht would be nice.

[sudi]

I'm tring to use CEGUI with Irrlicht but it looks that there is no examples available in the net...

If someone could point me to a piece of code showing how-to use cegui and irrlicht would be nice.

Just checkout the CEGUI examples on how stuff is rendered and how events are handled. Then you should be able to create an irrlicht wrapper for it.

[roxaz]

berkelium. with some creativity seamless experience can be created where you can directly call from c++ into js or vice-versa. html UIs are best.

[sudi]

I just downloaded cegui and it seams it already has an irrlicht renderer.

But that renderer seams to be from 2004. Maybe it works maybe it doesn't who knows. Just try it. besides there are all the other renderers so you can check how to fix it in case it is actually broken.

Edit: nvm it seams to work

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Release 0.7.9
- Bug Fix: CEGUI produced no rendering under irrlicht 1.8+
- Bug Fix: CEGUI would not build against Irrlicht 1.8+
 

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Example:
 
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// create a renderer which uses the irrlicht filesystem to load data
renderer=new CEGUI::IrrlichtRenderer(device,true);
 
// create the gui
new CEGUI::System(renderer);
 
// draw everything
while(device->run())
{
    // draw only if the window is active
    if (device->isWindowActive())
    {
        driver->beginScene(true, true, video::SColor(150,50,50,50));
        //draw scene
        smgr->drawAll();
        // draw gui
        CEGUI::System::getSingleton().renderGUI();
        driver->endScene();
    }
}
 
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// irrlicht event handler function
bool CEGuiTest::OnEvent(SEvent event)
{
    if(irrlichtrenderer!=0)
        return irrlichtrenderer->injectEvent(event);
    else
        return false;
}
 
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[LordJonas]

CEGUI seems very good...

I only wish the GUI Editor would be better. I'm facing very difficulties to make a simple menu with it.

I'l give a one more try and see what comes...

[Cube_]

GUI editor? I just do everything through code ^^; (Far more control that way)

[Brainsaw]

I like the idea of berkelium. Maybe I'll have a look into that

[LordJonas]

Yep...

It really seems that i'll have to write everything myself since de editor don't produce good enough results.

That's a shame since the potencial is so great...

[Cube_]

LordJonas, Once you get used to coding over WYSIWYG editors you'll realize how much faster it is (I can damn near see the end result before compiling)

If you need the location of something just place a random gui element of the same size and note down the coordinates it ends up at (10,10,600,679 for example)