New GUI feature in the works.

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:05 am

grinvader wrote:
funkyass wrote:Make the Tabs more obivious...

Better yet, make them buttons - as you can't really make the tabs look like how other GUI's have done it.
Well, yes I can, with a lot of effort.

Code-wise they are already buttons. I would like to know how to make them "more obvious", since that's what you want. Tabs are the same colour as the window they link to, so tab colour isn't an option. Bigger ? Different text colour ?

is it possible to use the selection color as the background color for the inactive tabs?

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:07 am

since most of the things you have a choice from are green... i would say make the tabs have green text like the rest. (and maybe orange [like it is in the pics] text for the inactive)

tabs can be so handy in many parts of the gui... excellent job considering how hard it is to change the gui.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:48 pm

A line separating the active tab space from the background would be nice.

(I've changed the tab captions like Sith-Smasher said - looks good to me as the yellow text indicates "inactive status info".)

EDIT1: Another version: tabwip_2.png
EDIT2: And another one with the dark color as background: tabwip_3.png

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:14 pm

how bout a brighter yellow for the active one and creaothceann's line would be nice aswell as keeping inactive players white/grey

Sith · Post by **Sith** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:45 pm

The posted pic looks good.

Tabwip_2 looks messy because all tabs have the same bg color.

Tabwip_3 is the best IMO, it looks very clear because of the darker bg area next to the tabs. In this case it does look better that all tabs have the same bg color.

Post by **grinvader** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:52 am

funkyass wrote:is it possible to use the selection color as the background color for the inactive tabs?

Err, what do you mean ?

creaothceann wrote:A line separating the active tab space from the background would be nice.

Hmm, ok.

<pics>

I still want to put a colour difference between active and inactive tabs. I'll just make the tab background even darker to give off a similar effect.

grinvader wrote:All further OT posts will be baleeted.

Post by **grinvader** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:02 pm

Lo. And behold.

After some 13 hours, this...

Code: Select all

    GUIDrawTab 3,GUIInputTabs,5,2
(...)
  GUIInputTabs db 'ZOMG',0
             db 'GRIN',0
             db 'IS',0
             db 'TEH',0
             db 'D00D',0
             db 0

... now produces that:

Please notice the AUTOSIZED TABS GOD MY FACE HURTS.

The implementation is still very rough, this was mainly test code. Overall it's halfway done (the easy half <_<;).

Comments are welcome, but no need to digress.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:19 pm

awesome... would it be possible to make it so that it selects keyb/gamepad by default?

Post by **grinvader** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:32 pm

Is it that easy to forget I'm not doing anything special for the input feature ?

Focus on tabs please.

Post by **Agozer** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:19 pm

'zomg grin is teh d00d' indeed.

Excellent work.

And then there was much rejoicing.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:09 pm

Agozer wrote:'zomg grin is teh d00d' indeed.

Seconded. Looks nice!

Sith · Post by **Sith** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:37 pm

I'm glad you used my idea abt font colors.

And also Creaothceann's darker inactive tab idea.

Looks great!

Post by **odditude** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:00 pm

looks amazing. great job, grin!

Post by **grinvader** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:15 pm

Thanks all. The feature is now done and polished. It will be put in CVS after I split the video config window.

For documenters: You can use the mouse to click in tabs you want to pop up (obviously), and the TAB key will also control which tab is selected.

Once it is accessible through either CVS or a WIP, please report if clicking on a tab or pressing the TAB key to browse them produces a sudden and painful crash (I made sure it shouldn't, but better safe than sorry).

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:05 am

Looks great. Nice job!

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:03 am

creaothceann wrote:
Agozer wrote:'zomg grin is teh d00d' indeed.
Seconded. Looks nice!

Thirded.

Post by **Nach** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:17 pm

Yay!

Now I no longer have issues of opening all the windows at once

KingHanco · Post by **KingHanco** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:28 pm

Wooooo!!! That is alot of open windows there.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:50 pm

It's nice. Tabs were the perfect thing to add.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:03 am

im not sure but are the save options and misc keys meant to be there nach?

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:23 am

grinvader wrote:Once it is accessible through either CVS or a WIP, please report if clicking on a tab or pressing the TAB key to browse them produces a sudden and painful crash (I made sure it shouldn't, but better safe than sorry).

No crashes here using ZSNESW.

DEFIANT · Post by **DEFIANT** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:17 am

I like it. Good job Grinvader.

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:39 am

DEFIANT wrote:I like it. Good job Grinvader.

Seconded.

MaduinTheMarauder · Post by **MaduinTheMarauder** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:01 am

That new GUI is like the shit man. I'll drink to it.

Sith · Post by **Sith** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:10 pm

Nach wrote:Yay!

(pic)

Now I no longer have issues of opening all the windows at once

Wow so many windows.
Yeah, this makes the GUI even more comfortable to browse.