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Hi, I'm looking for any GUI tutorials for Slick. I have seen both of Slick's MouseListener and MouseOverArea in the Javadoc, but I don't know how to use them to their fullest extent. Does anyone know of a good tutorial, or can you tell me how you learned it? Thanks in advance!

Welcome to the forum! Yeah I wondered about that too and here is an example how you can do it with MouseOverArea:
https://bitbucket.org/kevglass/slick/src/23a67408b3a1/trunk/Slick/src/org/newdawn/slick/tests/GUITest.java

Nevertheless, does anybody know about a simple UI library (possibly build on top of Slick2D) with components like DropDownMenu, ProgressBar and the like? If there isn't, it shouldn't be too complex to build one and I'll most likely build one myself eventually.

Edit: Okay I've found this thread, but it seems to be inactive.

Don't think it is that easy to build an UI Engine. If it should be flexible you will have a lot of work to do. TWL is a prove for this. You can use TWL inside Slick2D without problem. TWL is for complex GUI's with layout and such.

If you just need a simple In-Game-GUI, you can just make some simple class to provide you with buttons (since you mostly need buttons).

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TWL can also be used for simple game UIs with manually positioning of widgets - just take a look at the Game UI Demo source (ignore all that wheel stuff - this should get it's own demo).

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Thanks for the advice!


Yeah, I thought of relatively basic stuff.


Great , I'll try that library out.