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* Eol-style fixes * (Hopefully) fixing a unittest++ issue on linux systems
author mvbarracuda@33b003aa-7bff-0310-803a-e67f0ece8222
date Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:15:32 +0000
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1 IMPORTANT!
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2 =========
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3 Guichan is currently in a beta stage. This means that the API is not fixed and
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4 may change in the future. Every API change will break compatibility between
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5 older versions of Guichan.
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7 INTRODUCTON TO GUICHAN
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8 ======================
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9 Guichan is a C++ GUI library designed for games. It comes with a standard set
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10 of 'widgets' and can use several different objects for displaying graphics and
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11 capturing user input. Guichan has an abstract design which allows users of
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12 Guichan to use different objects for displaying of graphics and grabbing of
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13 user input. Guichan comes with three implemented graphics objects (SDLGraphics,
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14 OpenGLGraphics and AllegroGraphics) and two implemented input objects (SDLInput
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15 and AllegroInput). Due to Guichan's extendible nature, new objects can also be
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16 created by the developer to suit their needs. As Guichan is designed for
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17 games, Guichan lacks many features of more advanced GUI libraries (such as GTK
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18 and QT). However, a game developer may not normally require all the advanced
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19 features of the larger GUI libraries. Guichan aims to keep small and simple,
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20 thus avoiding the complication and large dependencies found with some other GUI
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21 libraries. Guichan is small but contains all basic GUI features making it ideal
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22 for games.
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24 Guichan allows the developer control over the initialization of external
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25 libraries, giving a degree of freedom which is almost required in game
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26 development, but not provided by some GUI libraries. Guichan should not be
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27 considered a full GUI library but rather a tool or helper library for game
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28 development.
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30 The basic nature of Guichan means that it comes with a small number of default
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31 widgets. There exists no themes or theme handling for Guichan, as their
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32 implementation would increase the size and complexity of the library
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33 unnecessarily. Instead, the developer creates their own new widgets by
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34 inheriting from the standard widgets or by overloading standard widget
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35 functions. This makes Guichan much more flexible for customisation than theme
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36 based GUIs, and more natural to use for C++ developers, as they need only learn
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37 the API instead of a whole new theming system.
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39 FOR MORE INFORMATION AND DOWNLOADS
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40 ==================================
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41 For more general information about Guichan and/or downloads related to Guichan
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42 please visit the Guichan homepage at http://guichan.sourceforge.net.
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44 GETTING HELP WITH GUICHAN
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45 =========================
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46 If you need help with Guichan, the best way to proceed is to ask questions
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47 either by joining the users mailing list or by joining our forum. Information
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48 about Guichan's mailing lists and our forum is found at the Guichan homepate at
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49 http://guichan.sourceforge.net.
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52 GETTING INVOLVED WITH GUICHAN DEVELOPMENT
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54 If you want to get involved with Guichan development, the best way to proceed
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55 is to suggest improvements to Guichan either by joining the developers mailing
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56 list or by joining our forum. Information about Guichan's mailing lists and our
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57 forum is found at the Guichan homepate at http://guichan.sourceforge.net.
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59 By Olof Naessén 2006-06-30.