Question 2: Extendible OpenGL GUI library

[Bill Baxter]

janderson wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> janderson wrote:
>>> So far luigi looks like my best option: 
>>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/luigi
> <snip>
> 
>> I felt the same way when I started writing luigi.  And unfortunately 
>> for you, I still feel the same way today. :-)  Meaning Luigi isn't 
>> actively maintained because I just needed some way to get some buttons 
>> and sliders on the screen, and now it does that.  I would have used 
>> someone else's lib if there had been one to use.  It only has 1-line 
>> text fields right now, though.  No multiline.  But I did write it with 
>> the idea of making it extensible in mind.
>>
>> --bb
> 
> 
> Thanks.  Does luigi use the frame buffer or triangles to render its gui? 
>  I'm simply wondering if I can apply 3D operations on the gui.

That's a good question.  I think I left that up to the Theme subclasses. 
  For the windows-ish theme I'm pretty sure I use GL lines which won't 
look so good rotated around.  But for the DXUT theme I'm pretty sure 
it's all textured quads.

Hmm but the font is done using glbitmap.  I think with a little work the 
Font interface could be implemented by some texture-based FT-using 
thing... like the text code from H3r3tic.

--bb