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Duffer
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@ Ric,

Thanks for the response... does the plugin and include work on sprites or 3d planes / objects? if so, would it interfere with sprites and dbos on screen?

Also, can you alter the texture of a gui button etc with commands within the DBPro project ie. a facechange on a characters portrait over some healthbars- could you load in a changed portrait>? (obviously could do this in native code - but looking at flexibility of your gui...)

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All gui entities are sprites. When an entity is created in GUI Studio it's spritenumber(s), image number and sprite priority are automatically assigned (they are seeded with sprite numbers and image numbers of 1000, to give you plenty of room 'underneath'). By right clicking on an entitiy it will tell you what these values are if you want to know. Generally this means that the gui will be infront of any 3d objects and sprites in your game and without any interference, unless you deliberately give your sprites higher sprite priorities, or use the draw sprites first command (could be useful if you want your gui as a menu page at the back of a 3d scene, I suppose).

Changing of images (other than changing a button or switch's image from mouse-up to down/hover/inactive - but that's not what you mean!) is not something which is currently included in the gui functions - but I could very easily add it if that was a feature request - it would only be a couple of extra lines of code that need to be added to the included functions file. (I should point out that there is no plugin - all the functions are in an included .dba file which, if you wanted to, you could even modify yourself.)

Quite a few of the features in GUI Studio are a result of what users have asked for - I'm currently working on the next update, so there will be more features as they are requested. I'm also working on additional media for the library - 'GUI Media Pack 1', which all users will get for no extra charge, when it's finished.

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Maybe you could release a free beta version of the software ... I'll help find the bugs.

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@ Ric,

Noted - and understand - thanks for answering all the questions... and backreading this thread I see that add on pack 1 will include rpg stuff - excelllent...

come the next pay packet I think this will be a purchase....

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Posted: 21st May 2007 18:36
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what sort of stuff will be in the addon pack 1?

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Posted: 21st May 2007 21:50
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So far, I have been concentrating on rpg elements, as this seems to be what people would like. It already has: several old (roman and anglosaxon) coins, gems, celtic tiles, coats of arms, compasses, 197 world flags, wooden and stone gadgets (dials, knobs, sliders etc.), oak panels, astrological buttons, ... and I will be adding medieval weapon icons too, like swords, battle axes, and icons like potions and magic things ....

I'm going to be working more on this in the coming week, so if there are any things in particular people would like, now's the time to say, and I'll see what I can do.

By the way, the latest release now has the ability to change the image of panels from within DBPro.



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@ Ric,

RPG - hmmm - Any chance of character status tiles? - you know where you get character portraits (that would be up to us! could we change that part?) on the top right or top left hand side and then three horizontal or vertical status bars or more? and perhaps a small square at a corner of the tile where you could enter symbols for status - say dead, paralysed, poisoned, diseased etc - again could we have option to change/make graphics there...?

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Posted: 27th May 2007 11:34
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All of that is possible - you can do it quite easily. There is no 'status tile', but you would make one using a panel, and then layering over the top of it healthbars (perhaps 'health' is misleading - it can be a status bar to show anything you like), and additional panels to show icons representing dead, paralysed, etc.

Once you have your status tile how you want it, you can move, copy, paste, hide or show the whole thing as if it were one entity.

In your project, you could either have lots of them, and hide/show them at the times you want - or, perhaps better, you could have just one, and just change the images on the panels in your program as you need to.

If I get time later on today or tomorrow, I'll knock up a quick demo to show you.



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Posted: 27th May 2007 21:50
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@ Ric, that's great - thanks.... I havnt yet purchased (but no doubt will shortly) so dont have the 'hands on' of what it can do..

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Posted: 31st May 2007 11:15 Edited at: 1st Jun 2007 11:39
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Here's a demo of a quick character status panel made with GUI Studio in a few minutes. There are a million different ways you could lay it out and style it - this is just what I came up with, but obviously you would adapt it to your requirements. Demo attached as a zip file.

Clcik on the any of the character buttons at the bottom, and the status panel will slide onto the screen, showing the stats for that character. Click the close button on the status panel and it will slide off the screen again. The rotating cube is just a representation of a 3d background.



(The character portraits are some free ones I found on the internet which I'm using as an example - they are not part of GUI Studio itself. The rest of the graphics are from GUI Studio and the soon to be released (and free) GUI Media 1.)

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Posted: 31st May 2007 20:24
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@Ric, looking excellent...

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wow looks good.

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Looking great Ric,looking great
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Posted: 5th Jun 2007 21:48
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Seems that Ric's site is down. Anyone know?

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I think the server went down for a little while but it should be back up again by now .... it's usually very reliable.

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It was up but it's down again, and while it was up no images loaded.

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Posted: 6th Jun 2007 11:56
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Yep, my host just reported that they had a glitch with their servers last night - everything should be back to normal now.



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Posted: 6th Jun 2007 15:06
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@ Ric,

Could you give a preview of the sort of things coming with the add-on pack?

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Posted: 6th Jun 2007 15:21 Edited at: 6th Jun 2007 15:25
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You had better have a backup cause it is down, and this is several days now.
EDIT: Ok, it's back, but no images or links working.

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Posted: 7th Jun 2007 15:19
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@ Jerbil: That's odd - it all seems to be working here - and the server status report says it's all working normally again. Where are you, UK, US..? (I do have a backup - if the worst happens!)

@ Duffer: Once the pack is finished I'll post details of what's in it with a couple of screenshots. Unfortunately its taking me longer than I'd hoped due to other stuff ..... like getting married in two weeks!!

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Posted: 7th Jun 2007 17:04
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Quote: "Unfortunately its taking me longer than I'd hoped due to other stuff ..... like getting married in two weeks!! "


Congratulations on that one Ric,THAT is a real good reason you have there *

*=Not meant sarcastic...
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@ Ric,

Noted - we can all wait I'm sure - and, congrats...

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Posted: 8th Jun 2007 17:21
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Ric,
I'm in the US and never had this before. Yours is the only site that won't come up.

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Thanks Jerbil - I'll get in touch with my host and see if they can figure out what's going on.

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@ Ric,

How is the add-on rpg pack comimg?

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I'm aiming for the end of this week - which will give me time to add a few more bits to it. It's not specifically an rpg pack, but certainly has a leaning towards that genre. I'll post an announcement here as soon as it's available, with details of what's in it.

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Really?

Shouldn't you be honeymooning this week?



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Back to Earth with a thud!! We're both back at work this week, but rest assured I am giving my new wife my full attention during the evenings and not sneaking off onto the computer! Just have a few bits to do to the pack which I can squeeze in during my breaks in 'office hours'. As for a honeymoon - we're going to wait until Christmas for some snow, as we're going on a skiing holiday ..... nothing like breaking a few limbs to show your devotion to your partner!

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Posted: 10th Jul 2007 17:25 Edited at: 10th Jul 2007 17:26
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Good news - Media1 for GUI Studio is now available - free to all GUI Studio users!



Media1 is the first add-on pack for GUI Studio - and in a moment of madness, I decided to give it away for nothing! There are a whopping 18 Mb's of images in the pack, with a leaning towards (but not limited to) role playing games - by popular demand!

All registered users of GUI Studio can grab it now - find out more by clicking here

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Woah!thanks ric!Downloading now!


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@ Ric, that swung it - I have just purchased GUIStudio and downloading now.... excellent!

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I just used a little of the RPG part,and i must say,It looks great!


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very generous of you, that's a lot of media.

thanks
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This looks great Ric. Well worth the purchase price!

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Update: GUI studio v1.06 is now available, which includes some improvements to functionality and some bug fixes. You can find the link to download, and the full update log here: http://www.andromedus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=152

Cheers,

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Intresting,I'll look at it right now.Oh,and the domain responds terribly slow over here.


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bought it, this looks awesome

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Very interesting , I will purchase it.

Does it supports Greek fonts?

Could you create some Greek font for me?

Thank you very much.

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Hi Takis,

I have only tested GUI Studio with English fonts, so at the moment I can't say for sure if they would support Greek characters. There are two ways you can create text - 'text entities' and 'headline entities'.

Text entities use DBPro's native text command, which means that if you can use Greek fonts with DBPro, you will be able to with GUI Studio's text entities too - if you can't use them in DBPro, then it won't be possible in GUI Studio either.

Headline entities use a plugin I wrote especially for creating text, based on a c++ library called freetype2. It may be possible to alter this plugin so that it can handle international fonts - I will have a look into it and see what I can do.

Cheers,

Ric.

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Wow Ric, you've certainly hit the spot with this application

I would buy it, but the thing is, I'm improving my art skills with photoshop. It's a big help if you're a web designer. And due to this, I can design everything I need to for my game design needs

Keep up the work, though. Who knows, I might just buy it to send you some cash


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Quote: "Wow Ric, you've certainly hit the spot with this application "


Thanks!


Update: Version 1.07 is now available - it's a small update that corrects a couple of issues to do with digits, and improves the editing of dial entities.

Full details can be found here:
http://www.andromedus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=158

Cheers,

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Another month, another update! GUI Studio v1.08b is now available for voluntary testing. The latest version has some nice additions to the editor, including a much requested text alignent tool, a couple of useful new commands for interacting with your interfaces, some minor bug fixes and a few pieces of bonus media to stick into the library. You can find the download link, the full update log and more information over at the Andromedus Software forum: http://www.andromedus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=433#433



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Ric - The new update has the features I have been wanting. This is an awesome utility that gets better and better with each update.

I highly recommend this utility, what a time saver it has been for me. Thanks
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GUI Studio version 1.08 has now moved from beta phase to final release. Thanks to those who helped with the testing. To get your hands on the latest version click here

@Terry: thanks for your comments - I'm looking forward to seeing your completed project - it's looking great!



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Hi all.

This is my first time posting, though I have lurked on these forums for a couple of years now. First let me say that I have learnt a great deal from these forums. There have so far been no problems I have not been able to find a solution to or get some good advice for on these forums. Hence why I have never had the need to post. However, I have a question regarding GUI Studio, which I have just purchased.

Minutes prior to buying GUI Studio and had spend $20 on Blue GUI, only to find out after purchase that its not suitable for my needs. Since it want work in Full Screen exclusive mode. Does GUI Studio work in Full Screen exclusive mode? Please say yes. GUI Studio was considerably more expensive than Blue GUI.
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Hi QBert,

yes, GUI Studio will work fine in full screen exclusive mode.

Keep in mind though that the current version is designed for working in resolutions of 1024x768 or greater. I am hoping to add support for lower resolutions for a future update.



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@ Ric,

[I will email you seperately) I have just had my old laptop self-destruct (a blessing in surprise) but when I've come to try and re-install everything for DBPro I find that I cannot find the original of GUIStudio on my backup DVD - I am hoping you will have a record of my purchase (see my email as well) and will re-send me a password and link?

thanks,

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No problem - I've emailed you with the details.



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@ Ric,

Great - thanks

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Open source is a good idea. It would help out with my game development toolkit.

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