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Hi Guys,

I was wondering, has anyone be able to get GUI from windows to work with GDK in c++. I was looking at the gui smartwin. Its open source and has a BSD licence. Also it can be used for commerical projects without paying any fee's. thx.

Here's what I think you'll find to be true... but I haven't tried to do my gui yet in DarkGDK:

1: DarkGDK Takes over the WinMain entry Point - so many tool kits
that like to be in the WinMain might not be easily manipulated to work in DarkGDK.

2: In windowed Mode (Not full Screen Exclusive) I hear reports of people saying they can use normal windows, forms, and controls.

3: In FULL SCREEN exclusive mode - you should be able to get the DirectX GUI working like you would normal window gui stuff - though you won't be able to have the control you MIGHT need to keep DarkGDK managed gfx "underneath" the DairectX GUI. The BlueGui product I BELIEVE uses this DirectX means of getting GUI Gadgets....

4: IT's Much Easier to do with the DarkGDK.Net product - you can make DarkGDK.Net render to a "Bitmap" control (I think) inside a Normal Windows C# managed Form. e.g. System.Forms.etc

5: For Full Screen Exclusive Mode (especially in DarkGDK which is the C++ version) - it Sucks - and you will probably need to write your own.

Thank you for the quick response. Actually what I really need the gui for is to make calls to a windowed darkbasic form. So that instaed of having two exe's talking to one another. Everything can be done in one exe. The Game I'm designing is a 4x empire game. my hope was to have the gui handle all the nit and gritty stuff. While battles can be handled using Darkbasic commands and full screen combat. Any ideas?

im also curious as to how to go about this, I played around with the design thingy in visual c++ 2008 and made a toolbar some how, but the code made no sese what so ever and connecting it to DarkGDK was way beyond me.

Does anyone know of a good tutorial to walk me through the basics ?

The only way I think it can be done, is with two different forms. Where one form has the darkbasic gdk running and the other forms have controls, that pass along parameters to the gdk form. This is how I would do it in C# or vb. I'm sure its possiable doing it with c++ as well.