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Karanveer Singh
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May 2009
Posted on 05/31/2009 1:59 PM   View Profile

can we use a gui like qt with allegro? for example, if i want to include buttons and other stuff in my game?

Martin Kalbfuß
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Posted on 05/31/2009 2:13 PM   View Profile

No.

Use the included allegro-gui, guichan, CEGUI or CGUI.

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Thomas Fjellstrom
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Posted on 05/31/2009 2:21 PM   View Profile

If you have a lot of experience with Qt, you probably can use it with Allegro probably.

One way would be to implement a QPaintEngine and QPaintDevice to render using allegro itself. Another would be to implement an Allegro widget in Qt.

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Steve Terry
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Posted on 05/31/2009 2:54 PM   View Profile

Depends on how much GUI elements you want in your game. If it's simple as a button just do that in code. If it's list boxes, menus, movable windows, etc. then you will most likely want to look into MASkinGUI or guichan. I actually wrote a GUI for allegro long ago and it has since died as a project but I was really close to full GUI functionality and it was damn fast and skinnable.... memories :'(

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LennyLen
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December 2004
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Posted on 05/31/2009 4:17 PM   View Profile
Martin Kalbfuß said:

Use the included allegro-gui, guichan, CEGUI or CGUI.

CGUI Homepage said:

The CGUI toolkit uses an object oriented ECMAScript library to create SVG based Custom GUI elements inside a web browser. These widgets can be embedded in an html document and viewed within the html, or the user can open the SVG document in their web browser and view the SVG directly.

That really doesn't sound suitable for writing Allegro applications.

Steve Terry said:

I actually wrote a GUI for allegro long ago and it has since died as a project but I was really close to full GUI functionality and it was damn fast and skinnable.... memories

NAS GUI right? It's a shame you abandoned it, it was a good system.

Speedo
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May 2008
Posted on 05/31/2009 4:25 PM   View Profile
Martin Kalbfuß said:

No.

Use the included allegro-gui, guichan, CEGUI or CGUI.

Is there a CEGUI renderer for Allegro? Or are you just using its OGL renderer with AllegroGL?

LennyLen
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Posted on 05/31/2009 4:27 PM   View Profile
Speedo said:

Is there a CEGUI renderer for Allegro?

No.

Martin Kalbfuß
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Posted on 05/31/2009 4:39 PM   View Profile

CGUI

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