Embedding LE

[Uberman]

I'm not anywhere near this point yet with my little test game, but I'm thinking ahead a bit to the point where I'm going to need to do 2D overlays (e.g., a GUI for the game).

 

I was wondering if anybody had attempted to embed -- or having attempted, had any success embedding -- the LE engine in a "foreign" framework? I'm thinking of something like Qt, that would provide a wrapping application framework where the LE engine's rendered output could be somehow displayed in a context (perhaps by blitting the framebuffer), and then use the framework's input handling, and 2D drawing capabilities to overlay GUI-based elements onto the context. Mouse and keyboard events would be managed, and those that were targeted for the LE engine (i.e., all events taking place directly on the non-GUI elements) would "fall through" to the game code.

 

Anybody taken this road?

[Uberman]

Wow. Crickets. Ok, I guess it's an "advanced" question that few people have contemplated.

[AggrorJorn]

I do not have any experience in this. Some people do use Leadwerks in the dot.net framework though. Kinda like Pixel perfects stranded demo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-csE7nbVvg&feature=context&context=C4a437c4ADvjVQa1PpcFO0CVw4fO0V7sU1cy3RYviY8_AGaCAXiC4=

[Daimour]

Ok, I guess it's an "advanced" question that few people have contemplated.

That's true.

[flachdrache]

Leadwerks has a "custombuffer" - i used to render le`s framework to a custom openGL context but the upload got lost during the forum database mismatch some time ago.

 

PS: "fallthrough" was suggested by using librocket`s "spacegame" demo.