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I was looking around to try to find you some good pointers, but actually I came up empty. The Texture class contains no methods for pixel sampling, much less bitmap blitting, the Renderer interface too lacks this. I simply have no idea of how to access bits on a pixel surface controlled by CEGUI. Ku...

DX7 is very much a different beast to DX8. Version 8 fundamentally changed the way to render graphics by managing all data in index and vertex buffers. In DX7, iirc, D3D was in practice a 3D addition to the 2D-oriented DirectGraphics system and 3D rendered to DirectGraphics' 2D surfaces (generally a...

This might have been said already, but basically, as I understand it, the facilities that would be needed are simple (1) getting access to the texture that is the surface of the window and (2) the ability to read and write a specific pixel from that texture. The colour picker is basically a matter o...

uelkfr: Yeah, I would start by renaming StaticText to something that would describe that it's powerful but bloated. Perhaps creating Label in the stock skins to replace it in the simple cases. Any ideas what StaticText should be called in 0.8? BasicText , BasicTextLabel , Label or StaticLabel are g...

Again, it should probably be said that static text might not actually be what you want. Name to the contrary it is not just a static text label. See this post by CE: I would start by avoiding static text. To be honest, the static text has become bloated and horrible, and is not really suitable for a...

I think the contents of this thread (Just went looney with "MouseEnter" and "MouseLeave"...) perhaps should be mentioned here since it involved backward-breaking fixes intended for the 0.8 branch. I have to agree with emarcotte in that you should try to automate bindings; prefera...

I really wish I could help you but I think Jamarr is right in that you will probably not get any answers here. Have you looked for any dedicated tolua++ communities, or gone to some of the major lua hubs? Indeed a boring answer to get, I know, but perhaps better than silence...

Well, "colour picking" also often means that you can sample a colour from anywhere on the screen, and it is common that you can do so when a colour picker widget is active. So musing about how to accomplish that was my train of thought in my message above. And yeah, you're right, the defau...

Hi! I think this is a very nice idea! Given that I often write tools and I often find I'd like to have a colour picker but can't take the time to make one I for one would certainly find good use for it. I would assume that colour picking in itself would be a matter of gaining access to the render co...

About the size and clutter of tools in the toolbox,: yeah, there should be a balance. I actually think that C++ doesn't have too many tools to choose from, which is in fact testified to by that we have C++0x coming and a TR2 on the horizon after that. C++ grows slower than many languages, and I thin...

Use the renderer for your graphics context (in your case the OGRE renderer):

http://cegui.org.uk/api_reference/class ... derer.html

...C++ is an expert-friendly language, but unfortunately the discipline and foresight required by these experts to produce maintainable code aren't very common resources. This is not the language's fault though. :P I still feel that the standard, in this case, results in a negative ROI. Here is why...

I suppose the best compromise is to associate specifiers with variables, while actively pushing to slowly phase out semantic-shortcuts in favor of natural-language semantics. There is often an interesting tension between a language's programmability and its readability: languages that are natural-s...

If you're interested, have a look at my own code standards at http://wiki.dark-omen.org/do/Wartbed:Code_style I like most of this. ... All in all I think your coding philosophy is spot on ... Especially that you followed KISS with your standards documentation. Thanks :pint: One thing most people wh...

About loading images, I think CrEGUI images might abstracted to imagesets. Check this recent thread for a similar question and a possible solution, and some bonus forum drama:

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