Complete GUI reload (including resources from disk)

[d-Pixie]

Hi all.

I have a question that I have not been able to find the answer to on/in the forums/tutorials. I'd like to be able to do a complete GUI reload from within the GUI. This might seem strange but I have all of my GUI code in Lua/XML and for prototyping the GUI it would be awesome to be able to press Ctrl+r to reload the GUI from disk (as you can in WoW for example, when developing addons).

I can think of one way to do this, completely unload the GUI rendering subsystem and then bring it up again, but that is a pretty long road to take ;o) Is there any quicker way to get it done? I have seen the invalidateAllCachedRendering() call but I can't see from the doc if this just invalidates all the resources for the layout and reuses the loaded images and such to redraw or if it does a deep reload of the GUI from disk (I figured the first since it is not really made for the purpose I need it for). Anyway I figured that you might get away with first reloading the resources from disk manually and then calling that function to get a complete redraw with the refreshed resources.

What do you all think?

[Kulik]

Depends on what you want to reload/refresh. Just the layout? Or even looknfeel? Imagesets? Layout is easy, looknfeel is really hard, imagesets are probably easy.

Falagard will receive some major changes to allow it to be modified at runtime to support CESkinEditor.

[d-Pixie]

Basically I want to be able to modify any resource belonging to the GUI, imagesets, looknfeel, fonts, schema, the lot. I infer from your comment that my intuition about having to basically destroy the GUI system and reload it all is correct? ;o)