have a look : AntTweakBar - GUI code for a property editor

Post by **Assaf Raman** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:10 pm

I found this nice new GUI code today.

AntTweakBar is a small and easy-to-use C/C++ library that allows programmers to quickly add light and intuitive graphical user interface into OpenGL and DirectX based graphic programs to interactively tweak them.

Program variables can be linked to a graphical control that allows users to modify them. Thus, parameters exposed by programmers can be easily modified. They are displayed into the graphical application through one or more embeded windows called tweak bars.

this is the web site:
http://www.antisphere.com/Wiki/tools:anttweakbar

It is released under the zlib/libpng license.

Post by **sinbad** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:07 pm

Pretty interesting, could be handy for knocking out simple debug stuff if it's quick.

Nauk · Post by **Nauk** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:18 am

nice one

irrdev · Post by **irrdev** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 5:53 am

Very interesting... potentially a nice "light-weight" alternative to CEGUI. Thanks for posting the link.

silenttree · Post by **silenttree** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:41 am

does it exist a version integrated with ogre?

cybereality · Post by **cybereality** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:38 am

I would also be interested in seeing this working in ogre. Seems like a nice simple gui that could be used for a game editor. Especially for simple stuff like changing a light color that could be easy tweaked without a recompile.

tau · Post by **tau** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:21 pm

Interesting library.
Does zlib/libpng license permit static linking with closed source code?

Post by **pjcast** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:23 pm

tau wrote:Interesting library.
Does zlib/libpng license permit static linking with closed source code?

Yes.

CaseyB · Post by **CaseyB** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:48 am

I forgot all about this until today, so I spent a little time working it into Ogre. I still have a long way to go to make it clean, but here's a preliminary screenie.

detox · Post by **detox** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:31 pm

Nice work CaseyB. How difficult was it to integrate into an Ogre viewport?

CaseyB · Post by **CaseyB** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:44 pm

Actually not at all! To use what I have so far all you need to do is create an OgreTweakBarManager and ask it to create OgreTweakBar for you. So it'll look like this:

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OgreTweakBarManager *tweakManager = new OgreTweakBarManager(mSceneManager, mRenderWindow);

OgreTweakBar *tweakBar = tweakManager->createOgreTweakBar("My Ogre Tweak Bar");

Then you can set properties of the OgreTweakBar, such as color, position, size, hide / show / iconify as well as adding different controls to the OgreTweakBar. So far the only control that I've wrapped is a RealControl, that lets you enter a floating point number with options min and max values. I think this is a really nice GUI system, really light, intuitive and easy to use. It would be great for a world editor or something like that. Also, when I release the code, it will be under the same license as AntTweakBar so you can static link it if you like!