Refactoring for automated creation of Gui elements

[brinoausrino]

Hello Gal,

first, thank you for this addon! I'm using it extensivly to create GUIs for my multitouch applications.

Some months ago I started to need some more flexibility, so I refactored some parts of ofxInterface. I'm not sure if you want to apply this kind of major changes but I'll give it a try. To sum up what changed:

Creation of Nodes from json file:

• the GuiFactory reads in a json and creates a scene out of it
• therefore nodes can be setuped with a struct that contains the nodes properties
• GuiFactory creates this struct by parsing the json and creating nodes automatically
• some base components like buttons and keyboard have been added
• for own non-basic components you can subclass GuiFactory and register other elements
• since some components require textures or fonts I decided to use ofxFontStash2 as font renderer and ofxAssetManager to manage textures and fonts, so this maybe a drawback since this two addons are now mandatory to compile ofxInterface

Lambda functions

• I moved the Touch-lambda functions from LambdaView to Node since they are very useful ;)

Render changes

• added a pre and post-draw function to have more flexibility while rendering (shader etc.)
• added a group render function, to enable a photoshop like layer system (I release that in another addon)

Export scene

• not yet completed but planned: export scene to json file

What do you think?

Best
Brian

[moebiussurfing]

hey @brinoausrino ,
thanks for sharing this.
your bundled examples look really helpful.