Overview of GUI files

From CEGUIWiki

There are a lot of files that go into creating a GUI with CEGUI. Here is an overview (thanks to lindquist for the original version). An expanded version of this brief overview would be quite useful.

1 Overview of CEGUI resource files
2 About Falagard
3 Related Documents

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Overview of CEGUI resource files

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.imageset Files

An imageset is an xml file describing a set of images contained in an image file. When an imageset is loaded, images from that file become available to the application via the ImagesetManager.

Editor: CEImagesetEditor in the works by Martignasse.

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.scheme Files

A scheme file is an xml file describing the binding of widgets defined in a looknfeel file and the base Falagard widget set. Once loaded the components in the scheme file are available via the WindowManager. A detailed description of Scheme files is also available.

Editor: none

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.looknfeel Files

These are also xml files, which define the visual aspect of widgets declared in the scheme file.

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.layout Files

A layout file is also in xml format. It describes a set of widgets to create and their positions, sizes, and other attributes. Basically this describes the final on-screen layout of your GUI, hence the name.

Editor: The_"official"_layout_editor

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.font Files

These simple xml files give the location of a font file (like a TrueType .ttf file) and define a few extra properties about how CEGUI should use that font.

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About Falagard

Falagard is the part of the API that makes it possible to create a completly new set of widgets (at the visual level) from xml files.

You can, with a looknfeel, describe a widget and make it appear as you want (by using images defined in some imageset) and finally bind it to one of the widgets from a Falagard Base widget set in a scheme file.

Link: Falagard documentation

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