Gump Editor

[Bradley]

I've got screenshots of my new totally rewritten gump editor.

http://tkpups.com/screen1.JPG
http://tkpups.com/screen2.JPG
http://tkpups.com/screen3.JPG

[Bradley]

New Features:
1.All properties are edited through the Visual Studio Property Editor (you do not need to have visual studio)
2. Hue and GumpID properties ahve thier own porperty value browsers integrated with the VS Property Grid.
3. Full Drag, Drop, and resizing mouse support
4. The ability to group elements together, so they are treated as one single object
5. The ability to import to export groups to files that can be used as prebuilt templates, or exchanged with others over the web.
6. Users can create Element plugins for making thier own custom elements.
7. Scripting plugins that allow the Gump Designer to generate Emulator scripts in any lnaguge (and emulator)

[Fury]

Sweet, ive been using ggg just for the mouse resizing ability.. i hate em but i always end up making a ton of gumps, i look forward to using this great looking tool.

[Xandor]

Looks great! I am looking forward to its release.

[Arya]

Yep it looks great! If it's not too much asking, would you consider adding a snap-to-grid like feature when positioning items using the mouse?

[Khaybel]

Looks Great, keep up the good work

[Bradley]

Originally Posted by Arya

Yep it looks great! If it's not too much asking, would you consider adding a snap-to-grid like feature when positioning items using the mouse?

I'll see what I can do

[Limitmaker]

is this doen yet? and is there something better? I have tons of Graphics I want to use

[Atomic]

holy sh*it! this would be very useful, indeed

[Bradley]

Originally Posted by Limitmaker

is this doen yet? and is there something better? I have tons of Graphics I want to use

No, I'ts not done yet. I want to take the time to really make the editor good, before I trying to worry about some of the things that will make it useable by people.

Currently it would be good for laying out a form, but it can't generate script yet. There are also a few other Element types I want to implement. The plugin system is working, but I'm currently having a problem gettings objects loaded from extrenal DLLs to deserialize correctly, so it needs some work.

If anyone wants to help test what I have so far, and make suggestions contact me via ICQ and I can send you a current copy to look over.

[Bradley]

ok, that didn't come out right... let's try it again.

I want to concentrate on make the editing interface really smooth and functional before I add the scripting support.

[Arya]

Here's another suggestion (or request depending on how you look at it ). I like to write most of the code by myself, and use software only for the gump generation part. I'd love to have an option to quickly copy to the clipboard a method that will only create the gump itself without the need of specifying namespace, class name and saving it to a script I'm not going to use. I'll try to stop now Thanks!

[XxSP1DERxX]

Arya, in regards to your signature. Pure oxygen can be considered a drug, or a poison (depending on how you view its use).

Sorry if that was a little off-topic.

[Bradley]

Originally Posted by Arya

Here's another suggestion (or request depending on how you look at it ). I like to write most of the code by myself, and use software only for the gump generation part. I'd love to have an option to quickly copy to the clipboard a method that will only create the gump itself without the need of specifying namespace, class name and saving it to a script I'm not going to use. I'll try to stop now Thanks!

This could very easly be done through the plug-in interface. a plugin could be created that adds an items to the menu to export the gump in any way you want.

[Fury]

Ive been testing this.. even in its early stages this is the best gump creating program i have used yet.. keep up the excellent work on it

[Arya]

Glad to hear, I guess I didn't notice the plug-in part

Spider, that's true. My sig is just a quote I found funny though, I'm not trying to make oxygen illegal or something

[XxSP1DERxX]

LOL It is illegal in pure form (without proper license)

[Bradley]

The Gump Editor can now display Label Elements in the UO Fonts.

[Fury]

sweet

[crazyseamonkey]

Just want to say I got a look at this program already (Thanks Bradley) and it's looking awesome...I can't wait for it to be finished...it already blows most of the other editors out of the water and it's not finished yet.

[JonnyBrav]

Originally Posted by crazyseamonkey

Just want to say I got a look at this program already (Thanks Bradley) and it's looking awesome...I can't wait for it to be finished...it already blows most of the other editors out of the water and it's not finished yet.

Exactly

[Bradley]

I am currently working on moving the "snap to grid" feature into a plugin. I will post the source code and instruction on compiling the plugin to give an idea of what kinds of things can be done with the system.

[Bradley]

This is the source code for a Gump Studio plugin. It is actually 2 plugins working together to create the snap to grid feature.

The first plugin, SnapToGrid, Adds a menu "Show Grid" that toggles on or off the grid of dots in the designer. It also hooks into the mouse movement code to watch for element dragging, and alters the mouse coord to snap it to the grid when the shift key is held down. It also installs another plugin, SnapToGridExtender, which gets placed into each type of Element. This plugin adds the "snap to grid" context menu to elements when they are right clicked.

The code would be compiled into a DLL, and placed into the "Plugins" folder next to the GumpDesigner.exe.

I'll try to come up with a better tutorial on creating plugins once I officially release the edit.

[code:1]Imports Gump_Designer
Imports Gump_Designer.Plugins
Imports System.Drawing


Public Class SnapToGrid
Inherits BasePlugin

Protected mDesigner As DesignerForm
Protected mExtender As SnapToGridExtender
Protected mShowGrid As Boolean = False
Protected mShowGridMenu As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem

Public Overrides Function GetPluginInfo() As Gump_Designer.Plugins.PluginInfo
Dim Info As New PluginInfo
Info.AuthorEmail = "**********"
Info.AuthorName = "Bradley Uffner"
Info.Description = "Allows elements to be snapped to an 8x8 grid."
Info.PluginName = "SnapToGrid"
Info.Version = "1.0"
Return Info
End Function

Public Overrides Sub Load(ByVal frmDesigner As Gump_Designer.DesignerForm)
mDesigner = frmDesigner
If mExtender Is Nothing Then mExtender = New SnapToGridExtender(mDesigner)

mShowGridMenu = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem("Show Grid", AddressOf DoToggleGridMenu)
frmDesigner.mnuPlugins.MenuItems.Add(mShowGridMenu )
AddHandler mDesigner.PreRender, AddressOf RenderGrid
End Sub

Public Overrides ReadOnly Property Name() As String
Get
Return GetPluginInfo.PluginName
End Get
End Property

Public Overrides Sub InitializeElementExtenders(ByVal Element As Gump_Designer.Elements.BaseElement)
Element.AddExtender(mExtender)
End Sub

Public Overrides Sub MouseMoveHook(ByRef e As Gump_Designer.Plugins.MouseMoveHookEventArgs)
If e.MoveMode = MoveModeType.Move AndAlso CBool(e.Keys And Windows.Forms.Keys.Shift) Then
e.MouseLocation = mExtender.SnapToGrid(e.MouseLocation, mExtender.GridSize)
End If
End Sub

Public Sub DoToggleGridMenu(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
mShowGrid = Not mShowGrid
mShowGridMenu.Checked = mShowGrid
mDesigner.picCanvas.Refresh()
End Sub

Public Sub RenderGrid(ByVal Target As Bitmap)
If mShowGrid Then
For x As Integer = 0 To mDesigner.picCanvas.Width - 1 Step mExtender.GridSize.Width 'DrawGird
For y As Integer = 0 To mDesigner.picCanvas.Height - 1 Step mExtender.GridSize.Height
Target.SetPixel(x, y, Color.LightGray)
Next
Next
End If
End Sub
End Class

Public Class SnapToGridExtender
Inherits Plugins.ElementExtender

Public GridSize As Size = New Size(8, 8)
Protected mDesigner As DesignerForm

Public Sub New(ByVal Designer As DesignerForm)
mDesigner = Designer
End Sub

Public Overridable Sub DoSnapToGridMenu(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
For Each o As Object In mDesigner.ElementStack.GetSelectedElements
Dim Element As Elements.BaseElement = CType(o, Elements.BaseElement)
Element.Location = SnapToGrid(Element.Location, GridSize)
Next
End Sub

Public Function SnapToGrid(ByVal Position As Point, ByVal GridSize As Size) As Point
Dim NewPoint As Point = Position
NewPoint.X = CInt(NewPoint.X \ GridSize.Width) * GridSize.Width
NewPoint.Y = CInt(NewPoint.Y \ GridSize.Height) * GridSize.Height
Return NewPoint
End Function

Public Overrides Sub AddContextMenus(ByRef GroupMenu As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem, ByRef PositionMenu As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem, ByRef OrderMenu As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem, ByRef MiscMenu As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem)
If PositionMenu.MenuItems.Count > 1 Then
PositionMenu.MenuItems.Add(New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem("-"))
End If
PositionMenu.MenuItems.Add(New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem("Snap to Grid", AddressOf DoSnapToGridMenu))
End Sub
End Class[/code:1]

[Nagash]

where can I download it?

[Ravenal]

its not done read the whole thread before asking hehe