Changes between Version 12 and Version 13 of dev/projects/HUDbyChai

Timestamp:

Apr 2, 2008, 11:48:40 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

chaiy

Comment:

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dev/projects/HUDbyChai

@@ -1 +1 @@
 = HUD =
-See also: Ticket #233
+See also: Ticket #233,#252
 
 == Author ==
@@ -17 +17 @@
 For Windows Users there is already an editor made by Patrick Kooman: [http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Overlay_Editor Overlay Editor]
 
-== Already Done ==
+== Fall 2007 ==
 
 See Printscreen: Version 2.0
 
+== Spring 2008 ==
+
+Instead defining the whole HUD in a single script, and then linking every object of the script into a C++ file, it is now possible to directly creating the HUD in a single C++ file. In orxonox.cc, only one command is needed:
+{{{
+HUD hud = new HUD(int zoom);
+}}}
+the idea is to create a flexible HUD, which can become bigger or smaller easily. 
+
+A simple element of the HUD can be created as following:
+{{{
+Ogre:: OverlayManager& overlayManager = Ogre:: OverlayManager::getSingleton();
+Ogre:: OverlayElement* element = overlayManager.createOverlayElement("Panel",name);
+}}}
+
+In the second step, it is to create few inherited classes to Ogre:: OverlayElement, so more complicated and often used elements can be easily implemented. There is a problem about inheritance: Ogre:: OverlayElement doesnt have a constructor for itself, and Ogre:: OverlayManager::getSingleton().createOverlayElement() only creates an OverlayElement, but not its inherited classes. I could not find out how to inherit Ogre:: OverlayElement, so I wrote classes, which have an OverlayElement as public variable and several functions to change this OverlayElement. 
+
+Class Bar:
+{{{
+class _OrxonoxExport Bar
+{
+
+.....
+.....
+
+public:
+  Ogre:: OverlayElement* element;
+
+  Bar(Ogre:: Real left, Ogre:: Real top, Ogre:: Real width, Ogre:: Real height,
+      int dir, int colour, std::string name);
+  ~Bar(void);
+  void reset(int percentage);
+  void setColour(int colour);
+  void show();
+  void hide();
+};
+}}}
+
+Single elements cannot be directly put into HUD, they have to be added into a panel at first. The panel will be set into the whole overlay afterwards. 
+{{{
+Bar* energyCounter;
+Ogre::OverlayContainer* energyCounterPanel;
+
+...
+
+Ogre::Overlay* orxonoxOverlay = overlayManager.create("Orxonox/HUD"); 
+orxonoxOverlay->add2D(energyCounterPanel);
+orxonoxOverlay->show();
+}}}
+
+
+
 == TODO ==
 
- * To make HUD cuter, easier to use. 
+ * To find out how to write letters or numbers with C files. 
+ * To create more module classes.
  * To realize Radar System.
 
@@ -36 +88 @@
 === Version 1.0 ===
 
-[[Image(HUD1.0.png)]]  
+[[Image(HUD1.0.png,250)]]  
 
 === Version 2.0 ===
 
-[[Image(HUD2.0.png)]] 
+[[Image(HUD2.0.png, 250)]]