BAGG

GUI library for the Allegro Game Library

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last update : July 18, 2005

Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• News
• Features
• Screenshots
• Download
• Documentation
• Tutorial
• Custom Controls
• Contact
• Links

Introduction

BAGG is an add-on GUI Library for Allegro, written in C++. It is designed specially for games.
My goal was/is to create a small and flexible (OOP) library for creating a (custom) game GUI.
One that is nice to work with as a programmer, with bagg you can modify and control basically everything in your GUI.

ANOTHER GUI Library!?
Yes I know, there are already several GUI libraries available next to allegro's own GUI,
But there are few that are suitable for game GUI's with bitmapped graphics.
Using BAGG you will be able to do bitmapped (skinned) gui graphics. But it's also possible to write your own drawing code for example by using drawing primitives. (see features for more details)

If you are interested in what other GUI libraries are available, take a look in the lib section
at the allegro depot : www.allegro.cc

This library uses allegro, but does NOT use allegro's GUI in any way.
It is not a 'wrapper' or an attempt to make allegro’s GUI look good (no offence :) )
Bagg uses only allegro functions, it does not depend on any external libraries.
It is likely that bagg will compile on the platfroms supported by allegro (although, so far I have not tested this for all).

This library is still under development
Help and/or comments are very welcome.

News

[19-may-2005] v 0.3 ready, lot's of new stuff!

[8-jan-2005] BAGG v 0.2 ready, lot's of new stuff!

[1-sept-2004] Created and uploaded project webpage

Features

• A complete set of classes and controls for creating a game Gui.
  [Controls : Button, Checkbox, Check-Button, Radio-Button, Scrollbar, Slider, Progressbar,
  Textbox, Text-Input-Box, Listbox, Hotkey, Window and various Visual-controls.]
  [Dialogs : Message]
• Bitmapped graphics
• Skins (easily customized)
• Possibility to customize controls, create new controls and combine them.
• Completely separated graphics and update functions.
• Draw positions do not have to be the same as screen positions.
• Special Event Handling system using C++ templates, making it easy to create custom events.
• Double-click and mouse scroll-button support.
• Basic window support

Screenshots

Some screenshots for a basic impression. if you use the library, and have a nice screenshot feel free to send it to me!

Download

Download from sourceforge

Documentation

Full documentation not yet available

Tutorial

Ready Soon!

Custom Controls

Source code and or graphics for custom controls, if you have made a cool looking custom control, please submit!

None so far

Contact

For bugs, suggestions or feature requests send an email :

Steven

It's also possible to use the sourceforge system for this - sourceforge.net/projects/bagg

Links

allegro.cc - most stuff done with allegro can be found here.