[Ohrrpgce] SVN: jay/5076 gui*: generalizing. Not factory factory factory...

[James Paige]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 07:27:03AM -0800, Jay Tennant wrote:
> > From: subversion at HamsterRepublic.com
> > Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 9:20 AM
> > 
> > jay
> > 2012-02-26 07:20:03 -0800 (Sun, 26 Feb 2012)
> > 331
> > gui*: generalizing. Not factory factory factory...
> > 
> > Restructuring the system to follow Window's design a little more closely, namely using a registration system and extra data associated with "GuiClass's", and the GuiClass instance extra data.
> > 
> > Added GuiObjectState to retrieve pertinent render state about a particular GUI object.
> > ---
> > U   wip/gui.h
> > U   wip/guiBase.h
> 
> The goal is making this easier to construct GUI objects in plotscripts.

Wait... I am confused again. Why would there be a direct plotscripting 
interface for this? I thought the purpose of this gui code was low level 
stuff to use for custom?

> I don't really know how the slice tree is adjusted whenever a node must
> be manipulated/moved to another location in the tree. I was considering
> just letting the GUI manager keep a tree, and allow that to be readable
> through the functions guiGetChildCount() and guiGetChildByIndex().

Slice tree nodes are moved to other places in the tree by reparenting. 
They can also be reordered relative to their simblings with commands 
like "slice to front" "slice to back" "move slice above" "move slice 
below" or by sorting a group of slice siblings.

---
James