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For those of you wanting another GUI option, I have mercilessly ripped off JMonkey Engine's JMEDesktop and converted it to Slick.

JMEDesktop allows you to create a Swing GUI and render it in your 3D app.

At the moment only mouse input is working for the in game GUI, but if there is any interest I'll get keyboard input in ASAP and try to host the classes somewhere.

Cheers,
Brett

sounds cool, got any screenshots ?

Wicked! I tried at this a while ago and gave up pretty quickly... can't wait to see how you did it.

Here is a screenshot of the GUI running on top of the GradienTest program. I haven't had time to put in key input yet, and there is an issue with popups that I'll have to look into, but... it works



Cheers,
Brett

Increadibly cool stuff! When can I try it!

Kev

All I'll say is: wow.

- Jon

Anyone know of a site I can host the source files on?

The code is missing some features from the JME version

- mip-mapping (probably only useful for a fully 3D GUI)
- drag-n-drop

and the pop-ups don't work properly yet.

Apart from the above, the keyboard and mouse input is working so it is fully usable.

Cheers,
Brett

Do you want SVN or just somewhere to host a bunch of files in a ZIP?

There's java.net, sourceforge etc, or can give you access to SVN for Slick and you can create a sub-project if you're interested.

Kev

Hi Kev,

SVN would be good so we can keep everything Slick related together and up to date. You can send the details to the email address I registered with.

Cheers,
Brett

Sent,

Kev

Ok folks, thanks to Kev the source for SlickDesktop is now available at

https://bob.newdawnsoftware.com/repos/s ... ickDesktop

Any feedback on how it works in games, on different setups, etc. is welcome.

Cheers,
Brett

Works fine here. I've modded the code locally to be 1.4 compatible (I still work there atm - though this looks likely to change v soon, 1.6 time ).

Performance impact is pretty high at the moment.

Kev

Yeah, the big hit is copying the data from the BufferedImage into the texture. I can't see any way around that though.

Also, it looks like from this post that there is a problem with popups and 1.6 so I don't think there'll be a fix for that one.

Cheers,
Brett

Any progress on this? I was thinking of taking a look but if you're in progress I'll leave it alone.

Kev

As far as the popup issue is concerned it seems to be fixed in the early access version of the JDK I just downloaded, so it seems to be something specific to earlier versions of 1.6

For the performance impact, I haven't been able to think of a way to speed this up. There is no way that I can see to get around having to copy the dirty region of the image (or in the case of no sub image support, the entire image) into the GL texture. If you can see any way to speed this up then by all means add it to the code

I started playing around with making a sort of 'transaltor' to map all the AWT graphics calls to Slick graphics ones so that Swing thought it was drawing normally but the whole GUI would be accelerated but I haven't had any time lately to work more on this (not to mention implementing a fully featured SlickAWT would be a whole lot of work)

Cheers,
Brett