Advices needed for a HUD/GUI

[Resethel]

Hello everyone,

I've reached, in a recent project, the point where I must develop a HUD/GUI.
So I was wondering, how to correctly implement it?

Right now the solution I'm trying to build is:

• Creating a base class from which each widget like buttons, sliders (and so on) will inherit
• Creating a HUD/GUI class which will contain all the widget currently displayed, create them and draw them
• The HUD/GUI class could handle the widgets' informations, I mean when I click on a button, the information will be sent to the HUD/GUI container class which will perform an action according to the message received

But I guess there are plenty of flaws by this method. So I thought that the HUD could be build as a single class with a vertex array, but I have no clue how to handle the "widgets" this way...

So I was wondering, is my first idea good and how can I improve it?Is the second method better? or should I process in a totally other way?

Anyway, thanks a lot for hearing my request

[eXpl0it3r]

It's a rather abstract topic and I'm not sure you explained your idea well enough for others to understand it in-depth.

[firefly2442]

If you would like to use an existing library, SFGUI is an option:

http://sfgui.sfml-dev.de/

[Verra]

Here's a quick in dirty setup I threw together a bit ago. It relies heavily on sfml, you might be able to use it as base to get working on your message passing thing you were talking about. https://bitbucket.org/Verrazano/sassy