Re: [paragui-users] Making ParaGUI play nice with other SDL libraries

[Andrew Ford]

If you're going to do this, check out the
double-buffer example.  What you want to do is set up
the screen context outside of paragui, and instead of
using PG_Application::run, you'll want to pass events
into paragui.  I do that in my paragui minesweeper if
you want to look (www.geocities.com/andrewhford/ see
sdlmain.cpp).

Andrew.

--- Robby Dermody <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For starters, I'm just getting into SDL programming
> (I mostly do network
> programming and server-side stuff), so forgive me if
> I seem clueless on some
> areas.
> 
> Basically, for a game client I'm working on, I'd
> like to get ParaGUI and
> Kyra working together. Kyra is an isometric sprite
> engine. What I would
> like, for example, is say  you have a screen
> (fullscreen or windowed) at
> 1280x1024. The Kyra "game-window" might take up
> 800x600 of that, and paragui
> windows can be dragged anywhere on the SDL surface
> (over the kyra game
> window, or outside of it. For an example of what I
> mean, check out:
>
http://www.gamesdomain.com/gdreview/zones/reviews/pc/oct97/uo01.html
> 
> Imagine that Kyra is taking care of the "world
> window"...while that
> character window, with the character's appearance
> and the buttons and all is
> ParaGUI.
> 
> Now, I took a look at this from getting Kyra to work
> with others first hand,
> and it seems that if I want to do this, I would need
> to do some clever work
> with screen updating and update order:
>
http://www.grinninglizard.com/kyra/kryaFAQ.html#playWithOthers
> 
> What I'm wondering, is what I need to do for paraGUI
> to get this working. I
> would imagine that I would not use PGApplication's
> Run() function as well
> (??), and I would need some kind of master game loop
> which would determine
> whether the Kyra game screen or ParaGUI should be
> sent any user input, and
> then pass it off to the appropriate library
> function.
> 
> Past all this, is there something I should look out
> for, or something I
> need? Anyone know of an example application which
> does something like this?
> (The client is GPLed so GPLed code is fine.)  I
> guess I'm just a SDL newbie
> looking for a good starting point in integrating the
> two...
> 
> Much thanks for ANY help!!
> 
> Robby
> 
> 
> 
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