IGLass or MaxGUI?

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Greetings,

Why would i want IGLass or MaxGUI? i have no idea what is the difference...

IGlass is a Graphics-based user-interface. ie. it runs inside a graphics frame (like OpenGL/DirectX).

MaxGUI is a "native" user-interface. Think of a standard windowed application with buttons and whatnot (like the IDE, or your email client app).

They are different things for different purposes.

You might use IGlass (or something like it) for rendering in-games windows/buttons.

With MaxGUI you'd probably use it for writing an application.


Of course there are other less expensive alternatives, if you look around ;-)

"Of course there are other less expensive alternatives, if you look around ;-) "

Please give me hint ;-)
All i need is some buttons and dragable handles (in-game)

Try google

FryGUI BlitzMax
http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=65067

or

HighGUI BlitzMax
http://www.highgui3.com/

HighGUI BlitzMax has no demo
FryGUI BlitzMax looks interesting, altough it runs at 60FPS, thats a bit slow.... i still have to add my game.
Thanks for helping tough.

HighGUI comes with sources, so just put it in and compile the whole set of samples :)

What download? the link in the website is mods only.

You want a hint? Look in the man's signature!

wxmax: http://code.google.com/p/wxmax/

FryGUI runs at 60FPS?

What does that mean? The GUI does not control how fast your app runs.

FryGUI runs as fast as your program can run. I had no issues with it being slow. It does need a little work, as Fry Crayola has not updated it in a while, and I had to make some pretty major changes to it to make it do what I wanted.

well he does not understand the major difference between his two choices anyway ... which he first would need to understand to do a usefull dicision :)

FryGUI runs at least 240 fps on my machine if I tick off the fps limiting.... and HiGUI has demo in the mod folder in the source folder.

Please try more, thanks.

>All i need is some buttons and dragable handles (in-game)

BTW if that's your need, buy IGlass won't be wrong.

Thanks for the comments guys. Seems i missed out on some stuff. Ill defently dig deeper this time.