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Customizable GUI's Using HTML/CSS

Matt Shafer-Skelton · 2012-08-31T15:58:20

As you may or may not know I have forked the Glest Advanced Engine to work on a somewhat unorthodox RTS-like game. The game is, due to being a Glest fork, open source and designed to be easily modded. I don't necessarily expect my game to be widely modded, but the engine will be used for 7 games of fairly different types, although all RTS-like. For these reasons I want to have a GUI that is easily modified in all aspects. This engine uses C++. I was wondering if their are any good libraries, which are open source, that allow for HTML4-5/CSS3 files to be used to modify the GUI. Over at 0 A.D. they talked about stuff like Webkit and Awesomium and Berkelium, but I was wondering if people who are more expert in game programming and design could think of any more or better options. Awesomium is no longer open source I believe. I basically want to have easily moddable styles for panels/menus/buttons and also Civpedia style manual type stuff.

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Started by AoS August 28, 2012 06:53 AM

11 comments, last by dougbinks 11 years, 7 months ago

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August 30, 2012 01:25 PM

Something to consider is that using a Chromium based project will tie you to 32-bit Windows only as there still does not exist a 64-bit version of Chromium for Windows.

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64 bit editions of windows will run code compiled for 32 bit windows without any issues so no you are not limited to 32 bit only versions. I myself run a 32 bit version of chromium on my laptop which is running windows 7 64 bit.[/s]
My misunderstanding, sorry bout that

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Hodgman

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August 30, 2012 01:27 PM

He means you're tied to only making a 32-bit build (and can't make a native Win64 build), not that your Win32 program won't run at all on Win64.

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August 31, 2012 03:58 PM

I know Mike Acton has had some progress building a 64bit version of Chromium for Windows, but don't know how far he got. An alternative might be to use Chrome in a separate 32bit process and use shared memory - since Chrome is already a multi-process architecture this doesn't seem totally impractical, though it's does make integration that bit harder.

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