Need GUI code? Art? All of the above for your game?

If so, contact Hawthorne@theregulators.org for more information!

I will also be posting screens of a utility I am creating for Visual GUI development with XNA.

-Pat

Your post is pretty vague... can you update with more detail - the FAQ for this forum has some ideas. http://forums.xna.com/thread/12781.aspx

Sorry about that. Let me try again!

Here are some key features I have in place as of now. And a screenshot of what I have been doing. Thanks for the support and interest! I will post more information as I make time to do so. Obviously by my first postings impression I should have taken more time!

Again thanks, and here is more information and a PICTURE. Also some ARTWORK.

2DNA Features
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-Visual Editor with dynamic editing and C# or VB.net GUI class creation (exporter).
-11 stock controls (workspace,button, checkbox,combobox,image,label,listbox,panel,progressbar,slider,textbox)
-All controls can house other controls (Child/Parent)
-Background texture and color support for all controls
-Dynamic realtime XNB SpriteFont creaton/loading without c# express/spritefront processing.
-Fully automated Window manager.
-Render surface workspace's with delta only change logic for super fast GUI processing.
-Mouse, Gamepad and Keyboard support via Injection.
-Target Platfrom support: XNA 1-2.0, DX9, DX 10 via Windows 98,2000,XP,Vista and the XBOX 360
-Multiple Game Engine support via multiple GUI rendering systems. (The prototype is native to XNA only currently)
-VB.net and C# scripting support
-Create GUI systems with the Editor or through your own designs with the 2DNA API.

COMMON PROPERTIES
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BackColor
TopBorderColor
BottomBorderColor
BorderSize
Position
Name
Hasfocus
Visible
Tag
Enabled
RenderChildern
Texture
BackGroundImage
Rotation
Scale
Effects
TabIndex

COMMON EVENTS
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[Mouse Events]
MouseEnter(ByVal MouseData As MouseState)
MouseLeave(ByVal MouseData As MouseState)
MouseHover(ByVal MouseData As MouseState)

MouseMove(ByVal MouseData As MouseState)
MouseUp(ByVal MouseData As MouseState)
MouseDown(ByVal MouseData As MouseState)
MouseClick(ByVal MouseData As MouseState)
      
[Keyboard Events]
KeyPressed(ByVal KeyStates As KeyboardState)

[Gamepad Events]
GamePadButtonPressed(ByVal GamepadID As PlayerIndex, ByVal GamePadData As GamePadState)
GamePadPadPressed(ByVal GamepadID As PlayerIndex, ByVal GamePadData As GamePadState)

[Drag and Drop Events]
DragStart()
DragStop()
Dragging()    
DragDrop(ByVal DragObject As BaseClass)
DragOver(ByVal DragObject As BaseClass)

[Misc Events]
Created(ByVal NewControlName As String)
SizeChanged()
GotFocus()
LostFocus()
ChildAdded(ByVal NewChild As BaseClass)
ChildRemoved(ByVal NewChild As BaseClass)
ChildFocusChanged(ByVal OldChild As BaseClass, ByVal NewChild As BaseClass)

:TODO MORE DOCUMENTATION!

Each control has its own events and proprties and methods that are not listed in the above. I was to lazy to write a list for 11 controls =/ But trust me there are lots of options!

-Pat

Thanks for the update... your post is more suited for the general forum thatn the help wanted which is there to look for or offer people to work on a project.

Great job, it looks excellent!  Are you going to allow others to download and use it at any point in time?  I look forward to trying it out.

Yes, thats kind of the point of the system. So that others can use it to make GUI.

I will be releasing this version pretty soon, as soon as I get a few more features wrapped up, and polish off the exporters.

-Pat

Hi Pat,

Any updates on this?

Also, the links to the screenshots above are broken.

Thanks,

Hi sorry I was away, I have been working on a system for DirectX 9 called Geonardo (www.zepadev.net)

The 2DNA system will be placed back online for download ASAP and is still working well. Sorry for the delay! And if anyone needs a copy before I get the files on the servers please email pat.shearon@gmail.com

 

-Pat

Hi, I am with the University of Southern Mississippi school of construction and I need help w/ a GUI for a serious game. The name of the project is Utilizing XNA and Xbox 360 Game Console as a Sustainable Streetscape Spatial Review Tool in a Virtual Environment. A paper was published at CONVR08 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Oct.21-23. I presented the tool in Malaysia and a guy from the UK with Microsoft suggested i look for help on the XNA forum. The tool is to be tested on the city council soon here in Hattiesburg, MS and it is not complete. I really need help to produce a GUI for my FBX model loading code. All I need is a GUI that will allow a client to browse for a FBX model, and a Button to load the Virtual Environment. I have made a GUI useing the racing game provided by XNA, but the code is to complex to merge with or rewrite in the FBX model loading code I have. If you can help please email me at Shawnokeeffe@mac.com. If you would like to help and participate in the next paper to be published, let me know as well. thanks

I have made a big post about our GUI system days ago. For some reason it is not yet approved by the moderators here. nUI SDK - A GUI library which is completely engine independant and even comes with a full blown visual editor (optional) Here are our forums: www.ionstar.org/smf/ You need to register in order to be able to download the latest version. We are always online and glad to help anytime. Note that this is a commercial UI system, but we are open for personal deals. Cheers, chris

This sounds really cool - a few XNA GUI systems exist out there, but it's nice to see some more choice!

Hawthorne:

-Dynamic realtime XNB SpriteFont creaton/loading without c# express/spritefront processing.

Can you elaborate on this? I was under the impression that this was impossible without manually installing content pipeline DLLs or reverse engineering them... both of which violate the EULA.

You say that a few XNA GUI systems exist out there. And i tried to find them, but i failed for some reason. Don't get me wrong, i did find some projects, but they were not feature complete. nUI offers anchoring, docking, z-ordering, tab indexing, modality, dynamic use of sprite batches and render targets, animated cursors, context menus, tooltips, simple html display, 3d rendering support with projected mouse coords, standard OpenFile/SaveFile and MessageBox dialogs. There is an event model for DialogResults. It even has a PropertyGrid control and supporting classes that simulate the UITypeEditor and StandardValues behaviour known in WinForms. And most of all, it's very easy to extend, since it's all based on a handful of baseclasses. Inherit nUI.Control and off you go developing your own GUI elements.