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CEED 1.1.1

A little humble CEED release to push its outstanding perfection even further :)

Stability and UX improvements included.

NB: you can simply run your v1.1.0 and it will update automatically. For earlier versions download an update manually.

State: 
Stable
Branch: 
master
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CEED

CEED 1.1.0

If it seems to you that this place is abandoned, we are in a hurry to dispel this feeling!

Welcome CEED, the best of officialy supported CEGUI editors!

In its brand new 1.1.0 flavor, CEED does the work formerly done by hand and is specially tailored for:

  • pleasing your eyes with correctly rendered widgets even if they use imagery caching surfaces
  • editing TabControl in a way you'd expect
  • and the same for every type of property
  • filling layout containers with only your Shift and a mouse cursor
  • telling you what you can achieve with different keys in the current context. No boring documentation crawling required!

And many more tiny brilliants of stability and usability.

CEED makes your life easier and does it for free.

Let yourself work with comfort!

 

* Contains no injurious chemicals or known crashes

* Just in case you missed it, you may order your very own CEED copy here!

State: 
Stable
Branch: 
master
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CEED

CEGUI soon migrating to Git and maybe to GitHub / GitLab

Migrating to git (and in the course of this maybe to github) had alreadyin discussion among the CEGUI devs over the past year. Now bitbucket made the decision for us with their change to deprecate Mercurial
Bitbucket dropping Mercurial support

We have been using Mercurial for many years now, just like the Ogre Engine project. This change now leaves us no option open: We will definitely migrate to Git. The question is, do we stick with bitbucket? Most of the things, like the tickets and Releases, we can migrate to GitHub or GitLab without great problems. Since we need to make a change anyway, why not make a big one? If you want to talk to us about this please feel free to join our freshly created Discord server ( https://discordapp.com/invite/NJ3fgsw ) or our Forum.

CEGUI 0.8.7

Patch release from v0-8 branch - It contains many minor fixes and changes. You can use the following links:

Source Package Downloads:

Code zip from github

Sourceforge code packaged a a .zip file
Sourceforge code packaged as a .tar.bz2 file

Dependencies (Windows / Apple OS X Only): 0.8.X Dependencies from github

Documentation Downloads:
Documentation packaged as a .zip file
Or click here for the online version of the docs

State: 
Stable
Branch: 
0.8
Changelog: 

Release 0.8.7 (Full issue list on the github issues page )

  • #1123: Library soname was changed from 2 to 1 in 0.8.6 . This is important to all packagers - The 0.8.6 release should be ignored, use 0.8.7 instead.
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CEGUI

CEGUI 0.8.6

Patch release from v0-8 branch - It contains many minor fixes and changes. You can use the following links:

Source Package Downloads:
Source code packaged a a .zip file
Source code packaged as a .tar.bz2 file

Documentation Downloads:
Documentation packaged as a .zip file

Dependencies (Windows / Apple OS X Only):
https://bitbucket.org/cegui/cegui-dependencies/get/v0-8.zip

Or click here for the online version of the docs

State: 
Stable
Branch: 
0.8
Changelog: 

Release 0.8.6 (taken from bitbucket issue-tracker, with the respective milestone. To read the full issue go to https://bitbucket.org/cegui/cegui/issue/ "Issue tracker" and append the ID - e.g. https://bitbucket.org/cegui/cegui/issue/998

  • #1120: Bug regarding order of destruction : Element object referenced by '__auto_titlebar__' is not attached to Element at (...) 
  • #1111: Add official support for MinGW (32 and 64 bit targets) 
  • Child removal (e.g. on destruction) always triggered a deactivation event due to a change in a fix for 0.8.5, now the deactivation event is only triggered when the element was actually active.
Category: 
CEGUI

CEGUI 0.8.5

Patch release from v0-8 branch - It contains many minor fixes and changes. You can use the following links:

Source Package Downloads:
Source code packaged a a .zip file
Source code packaged as a .tar.bz2 file

Documentation Downloads:
Documentation packaged as a .zip file

Dependencies (Windows / Apple OS X Only):
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/crayzedsgui/cegui-deps-0.8.x-src.zip?...

Or click here for the online version of the docs

State: 
Stable
Branch: 
0.8
Changelog: 

Release 0.8.5 (taken from bitbucket issue-tracker, milestone 0.8.5. To read the full issue go to https://bitbucket.org/cegui/cegui/issue and append the ID - e.g. https://bitbucket.org/cegui/cegui/issue/998

  •     Some changes around the Cmake for the OgreRenderer were done, both fixes and enhancements
  •     #998: SimpleTimer.cpp includes headers into namespace
  •     #1019: Docu lacks info on deinitialisation of CEGUI
  •     #1034: Doxygen docs use GIF images
  •     #1063: OpenGLRenderer on Linux renders CEGUI samples upside-down
  •     #1065: The 0.7->0.8 porting tips should either be added to the API Docu or referenced from there
  •     #1072: Docu: Replace CEGUIFalagardWRBase with CEGUICoreWindowRendererSet in Docu
  •     #1076: TabControl XML printing prints children twice
  •     #1077: ComboDropList output to XML shows RestoreOldCapture for Scrollbar's autowindow children
  •     #1078: Properties that are forwarded via PropertyLinkDefinitions are printed to XML
  •     #1079: Tooltips behave glitchy, take away focus from underlying windows, affect move-events
  •     #1080: Tooltips are wrongly printed to XML, inheritance affects the printing and uses wrong values
  •     #1081: Numerous windows XML-print some redundant (because forwarded) AutoWindow properties
  •     #1082: Scrollable panes print their children inside their autowindow instead of directly inside them
  •     #1087: StaticText uses incorrect Font when DefaultFont of a GUIContext is changed
  •     #1097: Window font ignored in RenderStringTextComponents
  •     #1104: Issue an exception if the locale is unexpected, before parsing anything with sscanf
  •     #1110: Support building CEGUI and its deps on Windows with MSVC for 64-bit.
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CEGUI

Current CEGUI developments and future plans

We are currently working on improving CEGUI 1.0 (current default branch) to bring CEGUI to the next level by upgrading core code using C++11 features, by improving the API design for easier and more inituitive use, by resolving naming issues and by adding features that will make everyday CEGUI usage easier. We will also in time improve the official API docu, which we consider crucial for the Release of 1.0.

To summarise our current developments and goals for 1.0:

  • Text rendering is currently slow due to Renderer changes, we will fix this soon and potentially also improve how Font will be rendered in general, by considering Kerning and thus improving the look/readability.
  • We already replaced some containers using the new unordered containers of C++11 and replaced output/input int types using std::int8_t etc. We will continue adding C++11 features such as move-constructors, std::array, std::copy (removing memcpy), simplify loops, potentially use std::thread and are already in the process of doing so.
  • We will replace sscanf and printf using sstream, to make CEGUI ready for multi-threading and protect it from changes to the global locale, which can occur from other libraries or user-code. We already finished this process for the PropertyHelper class.
  • A Vulkan Renderer will be added once Vulkan drivers are available
  • All CEGUI containers, which allow adding widgets as items, will be adapted so that they can be filled using layout XML files as well as via code. Currently filling them in layout files is not possible for all widgets, which is a big mistake in my opinion
  • Let's also not forget that 1.0 already contains a lot of new features such as: a new input handling based on semantics making it suited for different input devices, loading/rendering simpel SVGs and creating custom vector graphics in runtime as CEGUI Image, new MVC pattern for container widgets, etc etc etc

We are also working to solve the open tickets on our bug tracker, feel free to check them out if you want to know more about upcoming changes.

Version 0.8.X has also not been forgotten. We work on bug fixes and ABI-compatible new features there. A new Release is planned and contains a lot of fixes we have applied in the past year. Unfortunately, a smaller release-blocker is keeping us from releasing it currently, but progress on resolving it has already been made. We will release the new version as soon as we have solved all blockers!

CEGUI tutorial videos by MakingGamesWithBen

The channel MakingGamesWithBen on youtube recently posted this awesome guide on how to install/build CMake and go through the entire build process on Windows. Every CEGUI that every beginner should watch this video!

I also just added this video to the Getting Started section with some extra information - check it out. And don't forget to follow Ben's future videos, it seems like he got more interesting videos coming up on CEGUI!


Edit: A new video has been published. This one gives you a good introduction to the integration of CEGUI into your project, the resource initialisation and basic rendering.


Edit2: And another helpful video by Ben: This one shows how to set up SDL input injection for CEGUI and talks about bit shifting and UTF Strings. In this context I would like to remind users to look at the CEGUI application templates (news here), which also deals with input injections, updates etc (SDL2 and GLFW currently only):

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