User Interface Development Plan By: Bentley Johnson Jr'

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User InterfaceDevelopment PlanBy Bentley
Johnson Jr.
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Tasks

• 3D Object Interaction
• 2D Display Objects
• 2D Text

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3D Object Interaction

• Mouseover
• Highlighting
• Cursor Changes (image or color)
• Clicking
• Picking
• Callback methods

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3D Object InteractionClasses

• bzItem additions
• Highlight flag
• callback function
• Rendering addition(class TBD)
• Highlight()

• MouseEventHandler
• position
• EnterObject()
• LeaveObject()
• Picking()
• DistanceToObject()

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3D Object InteractionClasses

• Cursor
• currentIcon
• List of Icons(with names)
• SetIcon(char name)
• Darken()
• Lighten()

• Callback (need class?)
• delay time
• function pointer

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2D Display Objects

• Inventory
• Internal representation
• Graphical output
• Icons / Labels
• Mini-Map
• Position Rendering
• Other features?

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2D Display ObjectsClasses

• Icon
• 2D position
• texture
• Draw()
• bzItem addition
• Icon
• Character addition
• Inventory

• Inventory
• List of Items
• 2D position/Region
• AddItem()
• RemoveItem()
• HasItem()
• Draw()

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2D Display ObjectsClasses

• MiniMap
• 2D position
• viewport
• Camera instance
• Height above player
• Render()

• Other MiniMap Features
• To Be Determined

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2D Text

• Research a Text/Font ToolKit
• Implement Toolkit into Bronze
• On screen text with background
• Drop Shadowing
• Fonts and colors
• Connect to Conversation module

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2D TextToolkit Research

• glFont
• Loads fonts from .glf files (includes windows
  based .exe to create .glf files from any font)
• Stores as a Texture
• Simple calls to draw. Draws on GLQuad.
• OpenGL Matrices can easily manipulate.
• Needed extension Need to setup wrapping
• If this doesnt work, will continue looking

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2D TextClass Idea 1

• Text (1 for all fonts)
• Text region
• currentFont
• List of Fonts
• fontSize
• textColor
• shadow - bool
• shadowColor
• backgroundTexture
• Color?

• AddFont(char filename)
• SetFont(char name)
• SetRegion()
• SetFontSize()
• Set Color/Shadow Color
• TurnShadowOn/Off()
• SetBackgroundTexture()
• PrintText(char text)

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2D TextClass Idea 2

• Text (1 for each font)
• Text region
• font
• fontSize
• textColor
• shadow - bool
• shadowColor
• backgroundTexture
• Color?

• SetFont(char filename)
• SetRegion()
• SetFontSize()
• Set Color/Shadow Color
• TurnShadowOn/Off()
• SetBackgroundTexture()
• PrintText(char text)

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Questions / Suggestions?