GBPVR Widget Library

[jasonf]

I put in the request for a new SourceForge project, so by next week, there should be a collaboration environment in place for those interested in this side project, plus whatever else SourceForge provides.

Here's the list of widgets that I have already gotten a good start on:

IWidgetControl: Defines the interface that widget controls must implement

BaseWidgetControl: A basic realization of IWidgetControl.  Provides functionality common to all other widget controls, like screen layout (size and position), Border style color, Background color, etc.  WidgetControls inherit from this class.

Button: Essentially a Frame and a Caption with a click event

Frame: Draws a border and fills with a color.  Border styles created so far include Square, Rounded, Borderless, Top & Bottom only, and Left & Right only.

Label: Draws text on the screen

Listbox: A Frame containing a list of strings, allowing the user to scroll through the list to pick a value.  Can optionally display a VScrollBar

Picture: Draws an image to the screen.  Has the ability to keep the aspect ratio to prevent stretching.

VScrollBar: Provides feedback as to the window position within a list moreso than a method of scrolling.


I plan to have a container object as well that will really manage control focus and event handling between the controls and the plugin.  This object will also hopefully provide a lot of the skinning functionality by allowing layout and display properties to be externalized in the skin files, and the container object will refer to those files when initializing the controls.  Not too much different than how it is today, but should be a little more object oriented.

[fini]

a standard/default skin that each plugin could refer to as previously mentioned would be brilliant.

I don't want to rile the plugin community, but I have neither the time nor the inclination to install every single plugin just so I can bloat my skin up with compatibility for every single plugin... which is what I'm currently expected to do if I want the user to have a uniform experience.

fini

[jorm]

I have a keyboard widget that I will submit to the project.

[jasonf]

In the interest of moving forward, I have assembled a pre-alpha preview release of some of the source code for the Widget Library (specifically to demonstrate the controls).

The SourceForge project home for the entire library is found at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gbpvrwidgets/

The preview release is in the files section.  Besides the current source code, there's also a windows app that hosts an instance of each control, and displays a PropertyGrid control to allow you to view/edit the properties for any selected control (select controls by clicking on them).

Please keep in mind that this is definitely work in progress, and some things may not work (i.e., I noticed that the ShowScrollbar property of the listbox control does nothing).  

[reven]

ill clean up some of my code and supply a file list widget, it will take an array of FileDetails (just a class i wrote, for file information, location, type, image etc).

this is a really good idea i think. (the widget library i mean)

[darrin75]

How is the development going?

[jasonf]

Unfortunately, slower than ever expected. Still a one-man operation at this point, and my real-life workload had more than doubled since the project's inception, leaving little time at the end of the day to work on it.

[darrin75]

man i can tell you right now if i new code i would do it for you, but i am new at learning c# and new to gbpvr. Thats why i am so eagered to help create a project that would help people like me learn how to help improve this program?