So I’ve started working on GUI elements for my little engine that could. My quick list of things I’d like to include in a GUI system:
- ability to create a menu bar
- ability to create windows / panels with drop shadows
- ability to create scroll bars for window content
- ability to create buttons and button animations (hover, click)
- ability to create text boxes and text fields
I started working on text today, i.e., font rendering. The NV path rendering extension actually does a pretty good job with larger text:
It’s not so good with smaller text:
Look at that ugly subpixel rendering:
Bleh! So I’ll have to figure out something else for smaller fonts. I’ll probably look into the Java AWT package, or perhaps look into NanoVG, especially since it looks like lwjgl already has bindings for it. (Maybe it already has everything I want?)
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