BetaGUI : BetaGUI 2.5 update - Style system added.

[funguine]

I found BetaGUI today and liked the direct approach, but as it happens, I'm
currently developing with Mogre. So here's a WIP at getting BetaGUI to work with Mogre. It compiles fine in my
project, but I haven't tested it; and the callback-system is not properly
implemented. Anybody with ideas, or better yet, a finished implementation
for tomorrow when I get back to work ....

Edit: mind you, this is based on v015 from the wiki, and good part
of the time was spent un-obfuscating the code .... i've since found out
about betajaen's own dev version at http://get.nxogre.org/betagui/.
You'd think one learns from banging the head against the wall?
Well, I'm so angry at myself for not following up on the thread
that I'm still gonna finish *this* version first and patch it to latest
after

Edit: it's functional now, the link has been updated.

[amroc]

Haha love the source

[Rhaythe]

Tried using BetaGUI today, and had it integrated into my application in literally only two minutes.

Many thanks for this fine package!

[betajaen]

Wait until you get the new one with the positioning system.

I'm also playing with the idea of working with Cairo again, and creating a some sort of callback system inspired by Cocoa; Usual callbacks to functions, but callbacks to other widgets with "DataPayloads", i.e. up/down buttons next to a text input widget with a floating point number. Pretty much what talked about in the recent thread of GUIs. Seriously powerful, but seriously small. Except I can't think of a good enough name except for BetaGUI 4.

ETA 2012.

[nim]

just so I'm sure. the files in http://get.nxogre.org/betagui/ are the latest right? so they're called both "016" and some "2.5" or "3"? or are 2-4 still unreleased? (sorry if it's on previous pages, i have a bad short term memory :))
great work, betajean! appreciate the src over library approach.

[lXciD]

Hi,

I'm also interested in how beta gui is coming along. Where can I get the latest version?

I downloaded cake which seems like it is using BetaGUI-Bullet.h. Can I know which one should I use? I interested in integrating BetaGUI into my engine. I already is using NxOgre. I love it. Thanks! I am a noob. But i always have a heart to contribute something someday. Hopefully one day, that day will come.

cheers!

[andreu_as]

Hi! I can't use BetaGUI in my app because the 1.4.x Ogre version don't found this files ("OgreEventListeners.h", "OgreKeyEvent.h"), I speak spanish (and my english is really bad) someone can help me telling me what I have to do?

Si puede ser en español ya seria la monda! jeje

[ScottLanning]

I ported BetaGUI version 016 to Perl:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Ogre-BetaGUI/

As an example, I ported Intermediate Tutorial 2
(the one where you place robots on a terrain with a CEGUI mouse cursor,
http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/In ... Tutorial_2):
http://search.cpan.org/src/SLANNING/Ogr ... /itute2.pl

You should probably also know there are some (incomplete)
Perl bindings for OGRE:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Ogre/

[betajaen]

Wow. The third language for BetaGUI to be ported too, and Perl of all languages. I didn't even know there was a Perl binding for Ogre.

Kudos!

[Edit]

Your more than welcome to add your links and what not to the BetaGUI wiki page, just after the C# version.

[ScottLanning]

I put it there, thanks:
http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Be ... rl_Version

[andreu_as]

This is my small contribution!!!

In the uncompressed betaGUI 016 (I think) I added this function between LINE1 and LINE2:
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/* LINE1 */ void setFontSize(uint fontSize) { mFontSize = fontSize; }
/* MY LINE */ void setFont(String font) { mFont = font; }
/* LINE2 */ OverlayContainer* createOverlay(Ogre::String name, Vector2 position, Vector2 dimensions, Ogre::String material = "", Ogre::String caption = "", bool autoAdd = true);
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
for add '->setFont("otherFont")' to the GUI system like the '-setFontSize(16)'

may be it's stupid but I'm noob and happy thanks lads!

Sorry for my bad english

[andreu_as]

Please, I have a question:

In my app I want to erase some items of my GUI (staitcText or buttons) and put others like a refresh action. I tried to do this:

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mGUI->destroyWindow(mWindow); 

but the window don't disappear, then i tried to delete my GUI and create a new one:

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delete mGUI; // that works, the entire GUI disappear! 
mGUI = new BetaGUI::GUI("MyFont",16); // but that crash my App 

This is the crash :
OGRE EXCEPTION(4:ItemIdentityException): Overlay with name 'BetaGUI' already exists! ... blah blah

I tried to do next too:

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delete mWindow; // that works too, but after destroy and create  11 windows crash again with a similar Error

This is the similar crash:
OGRE EXCEPTION(4:ItemIdentityException): OverlayElement with name BetaGUI.w11 already exists. in OverlayManager::createOverlayElement at... blah blah

may be is a problem with the "destructor" I need some help please! Thanks!

[Beauty]

I wanted to use the usage example code of MogreBetaGUI, but there seems to be still a little problem.

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Callback cc = new Callback(this);  
    // remember to give your program the BetaGUIListener interface

This line makes trouble, because the constructor of BetaGUI.Callback has no argument.
I could'n found an other example for Mogre.
C++ I don't know, only C# (and Perl). Maybe someone can fix it in the forum?

Greetings from Germany
Beauty

http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/MogreBetaGUI

[Beauty]

I tried to get run the Mogre-Version of BetaGUI.

The problem of my last post seems to be fixed by

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Callback cc = new Callback((BetaGUIListener)this);
// Callback cc = new Callback(this);  // old

Then there are used variables / structs which are not defined in the public code.

Now I modified, can compile, can see the GUI, but no action is possible.
This lines does confuse me:

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uint screenx = (uint)(viewport.ActualWidth * ((float)mouseStatus.X / 50f));
uint screeny = (uint)(viewport.ActualHeight * ((float)mouseStatus.Y / 50f));

This generates large xy-values (like x:7790 y:4380). What is the reason?
Or is it wrong code?

update:
like this it runs:

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uint screenx = (uint)mouseStatus.X;
uint screeny = (uint)mouseStatus.Y;

There are still little other problems, but I will work on.


Does somebody get run a Mogre-Version of BetaGUI?
I would be happy about help (like example code or program).
Also I want to add / update information to the wiki.



General question about the C++ version number:

In the wiki is the Code of version 015 (C++) and on the developer-website is the version 016.
Is there a reason, why it's not updated? What are the differences? I did not found information about in this thread.
Also:
The title of this forum thread is BetaGUI 2.5 [...].
And in the wiki top right box is written Latest Version 1.0'15
This is confusing. What is right?

[funguine]

Does somebody get run a Mogre-Version of BetaGUI?
I would be happy about help (like example code or program).
Also I want to add / update information to the wiki.

Nice work with he Wiki, did you get it running in the end?

--
ketarax/funguine

[Beauty]

I got it to run, but I was not happy with it.

In the wiki I added information about the problems in the section "how to use", but (as I saw just now) somebody did remove my notes.
This would be ok, when the problems are fixed in the code, but they aren't.
Look here in the history:
http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php?ti ... ample_code

In the next time (if I have enough motivation to do) I want to publish my (tiny) modificated code. But before I must seperate it from my project. Also will try to use MOIS instead an own solution of key status. In the past I did not know what MOIS is and how to use. Later Raygeee added information about to the wiki.

General question about the C++ version number:

In the wiki is the Code of version 015 (C++) and on the developer-website is the version 016.
Is there a reason, why it's not updated? What are the differences? I did not found information about in this thread.
Also:
The title of this forum thread is BetaGUI 2.5 [...].
And in the wiki top right box is written Latest Version 1.0'15
This is confusing. What is right?

... I'm sad about that there was no answer

[funguine]

I got it to run, but I was not happy with it.

Re-creation of the UI: sounds like a namespace issue; for a reason
or another you propably make Mogre angry for trying to create something
with a name that was used previously and not cleaned up right.

Mouse Coordinates: strange. My code has worked in our studio with different versions of Windows/DirectX/OpenGL. But you'd really like to implement it using MOIS in a serious application anyway.

General question about the C++ version number:
The title of this forum thread is BetaGUI 2.5 [...].
And in the wiki top right box is written Latest Version 1.0'15
This is confusing. What is right?

2.5 = 015 = 1.0'15 or whatever. MogerBetaGUI was ported from this version. Differences to 016/others are explained in the thread.

[dsl9]

Totally noob here. Anyone can show me a functional example for version 2.5?

I mean...the entire file to make a simple menu with a button or something?

Thanks in advance.

[toglia]

My program just need buttons and a pointer, can I use the smaller version (0.15 I think) on Ogre 1.4?

[betajaen]

Should be able to.

[toglia]

Hello!

I'm using BetaGui with a touch screen so I had to change my update cursor code from relative to absolute positioning, but now my cursor seems to be trapped in a 51 x 51 box in the higher right side of the screen. It can move ok, but I cant get it out of there.



This is my init code:

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mGUI = new BetaGUI::GUI("Fondo1Material","Ocra10",24);
	mGUI->injectMouse(0,0,false);
	mPointer = mGUI->createMousePointer(Vector2(32,32), "bgui.pointer"); 

	
	mGUIWindow = mGUI->createWindow(
		Vector4(0,0,
		mViewport1->getActualWidth(),
		mViewport1->getActualWidth()), 
		"bgui.window", BetaGUI::NONE);

	
	cb = new BetaGUI::Callback(this);

This is my update:

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const OIS::MouseState &ms = mouse->getMouseState();

	mouseX = ms.X.abs;
	mouseY = ms.Y.abs;

	
	if (ms.buttonDown(OIS::MB_Left)){
		mGUI->injectMouse(mouseX, mouseY, true);
	}else{
		mGUI->injectMouse(mouseX, mouseY, false);
	}

I would appreciate any help

[mysterycoder]

Perhaps it is an issue with OIS? Try setting the width and height of the MouseState to the size of the window. Look in OISMouse.h for more info.

[betajaen]

It does sound like an input problem. BetaGUI only accepts absolute positioning of the cursor and usually doesn't moan about where you put it next.

[toglia]

this fixed it:

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mouse->getMouseState().width = 1024;
mouse->getMouseState().height = 768;

(on the init)

Sorry to bother...

[Beauty]

For MogreBetaGUI someone wrote the additional functions createAlterableOverlay() and createAlterableText().
This is nice to display text that changes every frame (e.g. to show fps).

The source is C#, but I think it's not difficult to port it.
www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2addons/viewtopic.php?p=47533#47531
If someone port it, it would be good to add the code block to the wiki.

If there is still a solution for that, sorry for the redundant post.
I don't remember all the posts of this thread and don't want to read it again now.