Anyone have a game UI recommendation? [duplicate]

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What C++ GUI library can you suggest?

I am creating a simple 2 dimensional GUI for an RPG game. It will be pretty simple and will contain a few windows a chat box. Does anyone have any suggestions for UI code to use?

Answer 1

There are Flash based GUI systems too. There's the open-source projects GameSWF and Hikari for . There are commercial products too - Scaleform

Answer 2

The Ogre3D team recommends both Crazy Eddie's GUI System and MyGui, so they might be worth checking out.

Answer 3

For really, really, really simple GUIs, I recommend rolling your own IMGUI library. If all you need are buttons and sliders, it's dead simple. If you need anything more, I recommend looking at some other GUI libraries, though.

• http://iki.fi/sol/imgui - my step by step IMGUI tutorial
• http://iki.fi/sol/files/Assembly07_IMGUI.pdf - IMGUI seminar slides by me and Jetro Lauha
• http://silverspaceship.com/inner/imgui/ - another implementation
• http://mollyrocket.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=10 - discussion on Molly Rocket website
• http://mollyrocket.com/861 - the original lecture on IMGUIs

Answer 4

I have had a positive experience with Guichan. It has an SDL back-end (as well as others) and a good set of basic widgets.

Some highlights:

• Widgets are easy to extend, which makes it great if you're building a simple RPG GUI. I was able to extend widgets for my game such that new ones could be created entirely by the scripting language -- it was great!

• It is not multi-threaded, which could be seen as a positive and a negative. It's up to the implementer to decide when (and in which thread) things are rendered.

• It allows components to communicate through the use of an Event system.

If you haven't already, check it out. I have used it in the past and plan on using it for my next project.