UI Editor is AGE's tool for designing and building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) from AGE components. It allows you to design and build widgets and windows using on-screen forms using the same widgets that will be used in your application. Components created with UI Editor can be previewed so that you can ensure that they will look and feel exactly as you intended.
Release 1.0.0.0 Beta of UI Editor introduces several new features:
- Added new widgets: item.
- buttongroup.
- treeview.
- tooltip.
- Added icons into menu entries, combobox entries, buttongroup entries, treeview entries and into button.
- Added new skin (GS_IBRID_SKIN)
- New user interface of the editor.
- Fixed some bugs.
- Added new online tutorial.
An important feature is the ability to integrate the GUI into your render scene and the render scene into your GUI, (example: graphical windows).
In UI Editor, widget positions and sizes are organized by layout managers. this is an easy way and fast in order to choose the correct position and size of the widgets.
UI Editor fully supports the AGE Resource System, allowing resources to be specified alongside windows as they are designed. This is an method to help designers and developers manage the resources that are needed by applications.
The UI Editor output are:
- the .aui file
- the .arc file
The .aui file format used by UI Editor is an XML file, that describe all widgets added to your project. You can open this file (from memory, zip, zip file in memory, resouce) from your application with the simple AGE SDK's api.
The .arc file format used by UI Editor is an XML file, that describe all resources added to your project. You can open this file from your application with the simple AGE SDK's api.
Be aware that the aui and arc format may change in future UI Editor releases.
Enjoy with AGE UI Editor.
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