[MOD/0.7] NetGUI - embeddable networking GUIs! [new/beta] (Page 2 of 2)

Compiling on Linux is much simpler indeed, that is the reason why I don't provide a native Windows build yet. But as I see it, the only easy way to circumvent the need of compiling would be the implementation of something like Lua. Wouldn't be that difficult at all, but the thing is that this mod is intended to be embedded into other mods, and I really don't want to force anybody to implement Lua aswell.
I also thought that it might be a bit annoying to always open the esc-menu to interact with the GUI, that's right. Your idea about how to deal it sounds quite good, I have to admit that having a bind to make the menu popping up didn't came to my mind yet, thanks Though, there are a few complications to deal with. For example the bind couldn't toggle the menu, it could just open it up (because there are text boxes etc to interact with...). But for me it makes not a big difference whether I press q or esc. One idea of me is to seperate displaying-menus in which the client just gets some information from the server (e.g. to replace the need of abusing the broadcasting, which doesn't exist in 0.7 anymore), and interaction-menus where the client can, well, interact. We'll see what time brings...

Announcement:

Beta3 released, bringing along Listboxes (which where quite complicated to figure out )
Also, a lot of code refractoring has been done. See my initial post for all information.

øıµĸ!! - I finally gave up on cross compiling for windows and had no time yet to setup everything on Windows myself, so I'm searching someone to be so kind and compile a Windows build for both Client and Server Just PM me (or write it here, shouldn't matter Dunno if I see the pm xD)

That would be an idea indeed You might have seen that beta3 could possibly be the last beta, so that would be really the time to start
I'll see if there are some GUI elements left which I'd really like to add, but this is only a small task and could be added by update afterwards. Anything else is just fixing and cleanup of buggy crumbs that I forgot in my code xD

Look forward to get my PR, implementing NetGUI is not a big deal (exactly how I wanted it to be )

I'll do that, there are a few important things left before it is as much finished as I want it to be. But I don't understand why you want to rename everything? It is NetGUI anyway so why rename it? Not renaming = less danger of nameclashes ^^

Ok I've got good news and bad news

The bad ones first:
I did a big mess with Beta3, it is completely broken and not usable. But I just released Beta3-rev1 which (sadly) removes Listboxes again, but fixes the mess.

Now the good news:
NetGUI and ModAPI are finally about to team-up I commited the first basic implementation a couple of minutes ago. It is a sample implementation which could be done in any other mod, so I created a patch file from that commit for you ^^ Just "git apply" it and you're also done with implementing NetGUI. You can download it here [zip], or view it in my Gist

Nice, I like it

First of all, this you post doesn't belong in this thread, it belongs rather here.
Secondly, don't panic, I support ModAPI, yes. But I also develop NetGUI as a standalone modification to be embedded into other mods who don't want to use ModAPI. And if you would have read carefully on the ModAPI repo, you would know that the branch-seperation is wanted like this, and will be merged when I have finished rewriting NetGUI for ModAPI (which I don't have). Also, necropotame wanted me to remove the example. But yoru idea to use it for the "server-example" branch is good, since it is the example
I will manage everything when time has come, but it also takes some time.