sjgui version 1.0

News

• (Jun,12,2003) The web page is started

Description

Features:

• OS independent
• Object-oriented approach using C++ templates
• Common set of widgets (push button, edit field, panels, etc...)
• Extensive use of std library (works fast)
• Glut and win32 api windowing support (as an option)

Why another gui?
Well, read why Glow toolkit is better then all the others and I will tell you why I did not use glow and wrote my own!

The main reason is that I did not want to have gui which would so much dependent on glut (both glut and glow was not updated for a long time).

I think, that there are two types of usage of the gui, people are looking for: First one is for starters, people, who are going to use OpenGL and they are looking for a proper startup (go straight to Lesson 1, you are at the right place). The second type is "I just need a button!", people, who already have their thing running, and at some point, they decided too have some friendly gui (this is the point where glow and alike fail)... But sjgui is just for you, there is very little for you to do, in order to have this button on your screen, without changing too much your existing code. Such people should read Lesson 8 to see what are the required changes and then they can go over the rest of the lessons (no need in Lesson 1 though) to get knowledge of "What? and How?"

Glow gives a nice feature of having your controls in the window other then your main window, but it was something I did not need (it could be that in the future sjgui will have this feature too).

For a quick start look at documentation page. If you would like to help me with something, feel free to contact me. I would really like to have someone on the team to make this project much faster and much better.

Source Code

Want to help

• Beta testers (anyone)
• New widget design (programmers)
• Different platform support (programmers)
• Additional styles design (art,design)

Credits

So far there is only one person on the development team: me, Alexander Shyrokov

Disclaimer

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