OpenGL, I/O, and buttons

[MadPumpkin]

Does anyone know what probably the best I/O is to use with OpenGL that is NOT OS dependent? And also, what method do you all use for clickable buttons, I've been having problems making it simple.

[Milch]

I think SDL and SFML is what you're looking for, but unfortunately there is no "pure" I/O and window creating lib that I know of.
SDL/SFML have soo much unnecessary stuff in it that you simply don't use if you just want I/O and window creating.

[Ginto8]

SFML is very modular, so you can make it so that you only use windowing, and don't use (and therefore get the overhead from) the parts of the library you don't want to.

[Milch]

Trust me, it is not as modular as it sounds at the first moment.
I've tried splitting it up into different DLLs and ended up having to link most of the stuff inside the main exe anyway.

[ismetteren]

I think SDL and SFML is what you're looking for, but unfortunately there is no "pure" I/O and window creating lib that I know of.
SDL/SFML have soo much unnecessary stuff in it that you simply don't use if you just want I/O and window creating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Ori ... put_System i think this is "pure" io. I have never used it directly, but it was a dependency for something i worked on. Maybe this is what you are looking for.

Edit:
More direct link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wgois/

[Falco Girgis]

Does anyone know what probably the best I/O is to use with OpenGL that is NOT OS dependent? And also, what method do you all use for clickable buttons, I've been having problems making it simple.

As long as whatever your targetted platform/architecture is has a proper implementation of the C and C++ standard libraries, both of those are "platform independent."

Use either the fscanf(), fprintf(), etc series with C or fstreams with C++.

[dandymcgee]

Does anyone know what probably the best I/O is to use with OpenGL that is NOT OS dependent? And also, what method do you all use for clickable buttons, I've been having problems making it simple.

As long as whatever your targetted platform/architecture is has a proper implementation of the C and C++ standard libraries, both of those are "platform independent."

Use either the fscanf(), fprintf(), etc series with C or fstreams with C++.

I'm pretty sure he means user I/O, not file I/O.

[Falco Girgis]

Does anyone know what probably the best I/O is to use with OpenGL that is NOT OS dependent? And also, what method do you all use for clickable buttons, I've been having problems making it simple.

As long as whatever your targetted platform/architecture is has a proper implementation of the C and C++ standard libraries, both of those are "platform independent."

Use either the fscanf(), fprintf(), etc series with C or fstreams with C++.

I'm pretty sure he means user I/O, not file I/O.

DOH!

[N64vSNES]

Does anyone know what probably the best I/O is to use with OpenGL that is NOT OS dependent? And also, what method do you all use for clickable buttons, I've been having problems making it simple.

As long as whatever your targetted platform/architecture is has a proper implementation of the C and C++ standard libraries, both of those are "platform independent."

Use either the fscanf(), fprintf(), etc series with C or fstreams with C++.

I'm pretty sure he means user I/O, not file I/O.

DOH!

ROFL.

If you mean I/O as GUI then you would probably be best just writing a GUI system yourself


for example

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class Button {

	public:
	
	Button();
	~Button();
	
	bool IsMouseHover() {
			if ( IsCollision(GetMouseRect(),Pos) ) {
				return true;
			}
		return false;
	}
	bool IsClicked() {
		if ( IsCollision(GetMouseRect(),Pos) ) {
			if ( GetMouseState() == LEFT_CLICK ) {
				return true;
			}
		}
		return false;
	}
	
	void Render() {
		// Draw your button here
	}
	
	private:
	
	Rectangle Pos;
};

[MadPumpkin]

Alright thanks everyone, and thank you N64vSNES for your way it's plenty simple haha.

I think SDL and SFML is what you're looking for, but unfortunately there is no "pure" I/O and window creating lib that I know of.
SDL/SFML have soo much unnecessary stuff in it that you simply don't use if you just want I/O and window creating.

I'm quite familiar with SDL but not at all with SFML. I've heard lots of good things about SFML though. What are the differences between SFML and SDL?

[dandymcgee]

What are the differences between SFML and SDL?

To be honest, not many. I'd recommend SFML over SDL to a newbie, but if you're familiar with SDL already the benefits are minimal. SFML's 2D rendering capabilities are superior, and it has a few helper classes (ie. Sprite) similar to XNA.

[MadPumpkin]

What are the differences between SFML and SDL?

To be honest, not many. I'd recommend SFML over SDL to a newbie, but if you're familiar with SDL already the benefits are minimal. SFML's 2D rendering capabilities are superior, and it has a few helper classes (ie. Sprite) similar to XNA.

Oh alright, any rendering is pointless then actually xD I'm using OpenGL for rendering anyways.

[Milch]

Actually, SFML uses OpenGL to render stuff and SDL only uses software.
So thats a big difference!

[dandymcgee]

Actually, SFML uses OpenGL to render stuff and SDL only uses software.
So thats a big difference!

No it's not because he's using OpenGL for rendering.