GBPVRUIElements - Similar to the widget libary, but skinnable

[McBainUK]

I've made a 'GBPVRUIElements' dll that is used by the files plugin. This handles the display, scrolling, and user input on the menu buttons, filter and favorites popup lists, and the file lists itself. Posted a preview of it here, not ready for public release tho. I made it because it was taking 10mins to add a button, and over a hour to add another File pane! This also involved copy and pasting code which was a nightmare. Using the fileList class in GBPVRUIElements.dll I can just declare 2 objects, fileListA and fileListB.

The dll currently provides support for buttons and button lists, object lists, labels, and file lists. Will think about developing it further and releasing it for public use if there is interest?

[dottore]

there is interest ;-)

[McBainUK]

If I post a demo with details of how to use the elements with a plugin, and how the skin I used would people take a look?

[dottore]

i would use it with cdplayer-plugin.

[McBainUK]

i would use it with dplayer-plugin.

How do you currently do your list box / buttons?

[dottore]

i use the commongbpvrutilities that come with video-archiver. i think it's jeffs work.

it's ok, but there are some things i don't like that much...button handling for example. it has a good config-dialog-integration though.

[Old Dog]

I've made a 'GBPVRUIElements' dll that is used by the files plugin. This handles the display, scrolling, and user input on the menu buttons,

Sounds really good to me. Maybe I can use it in Appearance Manager.

Just wondering, does it handle the display of buttons as they are currently defined by CompositeImages in the skin.xml files?

-David

[Jeff]

i use the commongbpvrutilities that come with video-archiver. i think it's jeffs work.

it's ok, but there are some things i don't like that much...button handling for example. it has a good config-dialog-integration though.

Yes, my utiltiies are more focused on GBOVR interaction and less on the UI side. I;ve been meaning to abstract my UI stuff to a seperate library but never have. Maybe there is some way to combine or coordinate these two sets of libraries so that they work weell with one another.

Jeff

[dottore]

i will give it a try, i don't want to loose the confighelper-stuff.

i had one problem with the common-thing: i couldn't rewrite the text on the buttons. i had to define a "open drive" and a "close drive" - button, but i just wanted to have it change from "open drive " to "close drive", depending on the state of the drive.

is that possible with the ui-dll?

[McBainUK]

I havn't played with the AM/collection yet. If they can work together then great.

Just wondering, does it handle the display of buttons as they are currently defined by CompositeImages in the skin.xml files?

Sorry I dont understannd what you mean? :o