In progress screenshot of new GUI

[telengard]

Still more to do but a lot of the heavy lifting is done like the threading and synchronizing the game thread w/ the GUI as well as all of the scaling logic (the UI can be resized to any size).

Lots of "polish" still needed and I'm having some issues with repaints on Windows after being obscured by other windows.

I also need to somehow extract the scoring cell graphics and find a nice background for the board since I can't use the original (due to non symmetrical cell layout).

http://home.comcast.net/~bsturk/dreamblade/db_gui.png

The image above doesn't show any copyrighted artwork but there will be provisions for adding your own artwork easily.

The ncurses based UI will also be kept since that is what I use for testing.

Should be ready in a week or two!

EDIT: For some reason the IMG tags truncated the right-most part of the screenshot so I provided a link instead.

~telengard

[Huggybaby]

The forum will obscure images, you have to zoom out with ctrl/scroll wheel to see it all, but by then text is too small.

The new "paint job" is great, keep it up!

[frwololo]

Looks good!

[nantuko84]

really good;)

[BagelJester]

Its beautiful! Cant wait to see it done!

[Snacko]

Looks great, hope you can find a better background with no skewed perspective.

[brianmathews]

awesome

[telengard]

Thanks guys! I know there's not a lot of eye candy (like Wagic/Incantus) but it will look decent.
I wish I had the UI skills of Incantus and frwololo.

~telengard

[telengard]

I've updated the screenshot linked above with the latest which shows the stats base (which was a *real* pain to get right as far as rendering and word breaks/spacing between sections etc).

What's holding up the release is redrawing issues on Windows when alt-tabbing or resizing. After doing one of those things you have to "force" a redraw by minimizing and bring back up. I've spent a few nights trying to figure it out and so far no luck. Linux etc works perfectly. I'm using the same toolkit for both platforms.

Only other thing is the background which right now is pretty vanilla. I'm also disappointed that you can't see the text well on the minis when they are on the board. Only so much space I guess. The exploded view to the upper right helps with that (you can toggle top/bottom view by double clicking).

Sooo, should I do a release given the Windows issues? They aren't showstoppers, but could be a little annoying. I'll know on Tuesday how good the OS X version will be.

~telengard

[telengard]

Finally figured out the issue on Windows, yay!

~telengard

[Huggybaby]

Awesome! BTW, if you have more questions I know someone that maybe could help. He programs in Linux and has had the same problems with Windows that you're confronting.

[melkor75]

Cool! Look forward to try it

mm75

[telengard]

Awesome! BTW, if you have more questions I know someone that maybe could help. He programs in Linux and has had the same problems with Windows that you're confronting.

Cool, thanks for the offer, much appreciated. I seem to be good for the moment.

~telengard