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Bixion2D, a pretty good graphical user interface using OpenTK

Posted Thursday, 28 April, 2011 - 18:09 by migueltk

Bixion2D v11.04

I just finished adapting the project to work with OpenTK. The capture of the keys on the keyboard should be improved but overall I think it is a very useful tool. I have not tried in Linux but in theory should work fine, but you have to install freetype previously. Requires an OpenGL 3.0 context, this change in the future I hope to work with OpenGL 2.0/2.1, any help is welcome.

Enjoy it!

Miguel


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Re: Bixion2D, a pretty good graphical user interface using ...

Posted Wednesday, 31 August, 2011 - 08:56 by migueltk

With time and effort, nothing is impossible. Like doing things, we have, but having time is something else.

I understand that there are two ways to eliminate dependence on "freetype" in the project Bixion2D.

1 - Replace method "void DrawText (string text, float x, float y)" in class "Font" using "QuickFont."

2 - Try replacing the dependent "freetype" in method "bool CompileChar (char character)" in class "Font.FreeType." Basically, this method does is create a "Pixmap" for each character, in a "Pixmap" image data representing the character is saved as "byte [] pixels".
I think this can be achieved with "Graphics.DrawString ()" in theory is only necessary to replace or adapt the code of the method "bool CompileChar (char character)."

I understand that the second option is more practical.

P.D: Were you able to run Bixion2d on Windows?

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Re: Bixion2D, a pretty good graphical user interface using ...

Posted Monday, 5 September, 2011 - 19:07 by carga
migueltk wrote:

I understand that the second option is more practical.

I'll find some time to test this approach.

migueltk wrote:

P.D: Were you able to run Bixion2D on Windows?

Not yet. Win is extremely rare animal in my environment, it almost disappeared eventually. Especially the one with OpenGL 3.0.

BTW, I have posted a bug to mono with Bixion compilation error. ;-)

Have a fast code!
Anton.
http://kyta.spb.ru

PS For some strange reason I do not receive e-mail notifications about your replies, so please excuse me for possible delay with answer.

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Re: Bixion2D, a pretty good graphical user interface using ...

Posted Thursday, 13 October, 2011 - 20:12 by carga
migueltk wrote:

2 - Try replacing the dependent "freetype" in method "bool CompileChar (char character)" in class "Font.FreeType." Basically, this method does is create a "Pixmap" for each character, in a "Pixmap" image data representing the character is saved as "byte [] pixels".
I think this can be achieved with "Graphics.DrawString ()" in theory is only necessary to replace or adapt the code of the method "bool CompileChar (char character)."

I understand that the second option is more practical.

Looking in the code (I personally don't understand what's going on around CompileChar method) I saw another font class (BitmapFont or something like this). So to cut the corner, I just updated GetFontType method to always return Bitmap font type instead of TrueType.

Is Bitmap font support complete enough to be used in Bixion demo?

After this change, I received other error:

logfile.txt	LibGui initialized.
logfile.txt	
logfile.txt	Searching for skins...
logfile.txt	Loading content...
logfile.txt	Generating GUIObjects...
logfile.txt	  done.
 
Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException: Can't add 'null' to FontPool!
Parameter name: newFont
  at Bixion2D.ZweiDe+TextHelper.ChangeFontPool (Int32 indexNum, Bixion2D.Font newFont) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at Bixion2D.Program..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at Bixion2D.Program.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.ArgumentException: Can't add 'null' to FontPool!
Parameter name: newFont
  at Bixion2D.ZweiDe+TextHelper.ChangeFontPool (Int32 indexNum, Bixion2D.Font newFont) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at Bixion2D.Program..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at Bixion2D.Program.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

PS I have to run Bixion in my Ubuntu box which has GPU with OGL v3 support, and in this environment there is no line numbers provided in stack trace. Sorry.

Have a fast code!
Anton.
http://kyta.spb.ru

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