gui's

xAndrewx · #1 11-12-2004, 08:01 PM

I had an idea of making a GUI using strings and variables to hold the value of the gui, is this a good idea or is it crap? :o

Kaimetsu · #2 11-12-2004, 08:10 PM

What else could you use?

xAndrewx · #3 11-12-2004, 08:11 PM

Well, I could do a GUI with ### showimgs.

Dach · #4 11-12-2004, 08:21 PM

Depends on how much scripting you will save yourself by doing so.

When using strings just be careful not to try and manipulate them ititerively much. Although you're just storing data, so no real harm there.

xAndrewx · #5 11-12-2004, 08:22 PM

Hrmm, It wouldn't matter if I did use a string to store the values.. I'd still have to use the same number of showimg's wouldn't I?

Kaimetsu · #6 11-12-2004, 08:37 PM

You are talking about generalising the showimg process as a single function and supplying it with uniformly-formatted data to tell it how and where to draw the GUI components?

xAndrewx · #7 11-12-2004, 08:41 PM

Yeah, but then i'd be adding the same number of showimgs, right?

Kaimetsu · #8 11-12-2004, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by xAndrewx

Yeah, but then i'd be adding the same number of showimgs, right?

Showimg would be called as many times, but you wouldn't have as many individual calls to the function.

xAndrewx · #9 11-12-2004, 09:03 PM

Ah yeah, true. I'd just be using the sub commands, thanks