Sassy GUI

[Verra]

Sassy stands for "straight-forward and su-".... well screw it it doesn't stand for anything it's not an acronym anyways! That's how simple it is. Here is a list of words that could be used to describe Sassy: quick, simple, dirty, straight-forward, robust-ish, ugly, unsafe (currently has scary pointers. That's right you heard me).

Sassy is a GUI made for sfml apps. It contains some generic GUI elements and a simple interface for creating new elements. However it doesn't do much of the work for you, basically just override the processEvent/draw methods and go to town. The purpose of this collection is just to make a GUI in as little time as possible. there is no compiled library just a folder with some headers/source.



Current Features:

• Element interface
• The usual gui elements: Buttons, Sliders, Text-boxes, etc.
• Color theming

Planned features:

• Making creating new GUIs even easier!
• Finding ways to comply with Google's Material Design (That might make it to pretty).
• Adding new default elements: Combo box, color picker, etc.
• Fixing and adding bugs

If you want to get some debug interface up and running quickly I think Sassy might be for you, if you want a sleek UI that players can use, I recommend making something nice and custom. However note that you can still use Sassy for that it'll just require a little more work.

Here's the repo which contains the Sassy source, an example and some other stuff (Debug folder just has a font).
https://bitbucket.org/Verrazano/sassy

Feel free to make suggestions and ask for features. I'll be willing to hear you out.

P.S. Thanks jagoly for the name.

[01:19:00] <Verra> hmm
[01:19:08] <Verra> need to think of a dumb name for a library
[01:19:16] <Verra> or rather just collection of clases
[01:19:37] <jagoly> call it "SQCC"
[01:19:47] <Verra> what's that stand for?
[01:20:06] <jagoly> Sassy Quick Collection of Classes
[01:20:22] <Verra> I like sassy
[01:20:30] <Verra> and so it shall be called sassy

[eXpl0it3r]

Nice!

How much can the style be modified?

[victorlevasseur]

Hi, nice work !

I'm currently looking for a lightweight GUI for SFML in which the widget can be draw independently (so it doesn't need a "global" class to be constructed at the beginning of the program). Can we draw each elements independently ? For example, I want to draw a textbox, do I need to create a sy::GUI object or can I use directly the Textbox draw method ?

I have seen some problems : almost everything in the public scope and you use std::string instead of sf::String (to have a better support for Unicode). I may do some pull requests to improve these things (if you want) for your project.

Thanks

[Verra]

Nice!

How much can the style be modified?

Currently the theme only modifies colors, outline thickness and font.

Hi, nice work !

I'm currently looking for a lightweight GUI for SFML in which the widget can be draw independently (so it doesn't need a "global" class to be constructed at the beginning of the program). Can we draw each elements independently ? For example, I want to draw a textbox, do I need to create a sy::GUI object or can I use directly the Textbox draw method ?

I have seen some problems : almost everything in the public scope and you use std::string instead of sf::String (to have a better support for Unicode). I may do some pull requests to improve these things (if you want) for your project.

Thanks

You can have as many or as few sy::GUI components as you like. They are only there for convenience. Feel free to make a pull request, I am going to be updating the repo pretty frequently at least for the next week or two.

http://paste.unixcube.org/k/f50dbc

[Hapax]

My favourite part of this thread is:

Sassy stands for "straight-forward and su-".... well screw it it doesn't stand for anything it's not an acronym anyways!

[DingusKhan]

SASSY: Straight-forward And Super Simple... Yeah...

[Hydra]

Well. I searched on Google for synonyms and though about it and I managed to get this:

Simple Advanced Sleek SFML

SASS

We just need something for the "Y".

[Satus]

I recently implementer basic View class and Button inherited from it for my main menu. Almost the same code, actually. 

[Verra]

Sassy will never be a an acronym, it's just a name.
Yea I'm not surprised that it's similar to many other peoples button/gui code, it's probably the most straight forward way I could think of doing it.

[JackPS9]

So what features are you currently working on for this?

Edit: (8/30/2015)
Any chance of making it that a window doesn't have a name?