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Qt added support for Vulkan / Metal / D3D starting in 5.15, but FlightGear / OpenSceneGraph can’t support those, so integrating the two renderers went from being ‘complicated but ok’ to ‘very very complicated’. | Qt added support for Vulkan / Metal / D3D starting in 5.15, but FlightGear / OpenSceneGraph can’t support those, so integrating the two renderers went from being ‘complicated but ok’ to ‘very very complicated’. | ||
So now James is going with something much more lightweight using some C++ compatibility code, some Nasal for styling and the existing [[Canvas widgets|Canvas widget rendering]] from Thomas Geymayer (TheTom) with some extensions and additions, based on the [[Howto:Processing_legacy_PUI_dialogs_using_Canvas#Original_Discussion|plans originally discussed when the Canvas GUI system was added to FlightGear]]: some pieces are in FlightGear & FGData already. | So now James is going with something much more lightweight using some C++ compatibility code, some Nasal for styling and the existing [[Canvas widgets|Canvas widget rendering]] from Thomas Geymayer (TheTom) with [[Canvas Widget Matrix|some extensions and additions]], based on the [[Howto:Processing_legacy_PUI_dialogs_using_Canvas#Original_Discussion|plans originally discussed when the Canvas GUI system was added to FlightGear]]: some pieces are in FlightGear & FGData already. | ||
James has basic dialogs working okay but not the more complex ones and everything looks kind of ugly, he needs to improve the visual look before he shares screenshots to avoid everyone freaking out :) The disadvantage of this approach is James is far from expert at creating visual appearances this way, so it’s kind on unrewarding and slow for him. If someone likes messing with CSS-type styling, border-images and hover-states, ping him since we could probably move things also faster <ref>https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/37701750/</ref>}} | James has basic dialogs working okay but not the more complex ones and everything looks kind of ugly, he needs to improve the visual look before he shares screenshots to avoid everyone freaking out :) The disadvantage of this approach is James is far from expert at creating visual appearances this way, so it’s kind on unrewarding and slow for him. If someone likes messing with CSS-type styling, border-images and hover-states, ping him since we could probably move things also faster <ref>https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/37701750/</ref>}} | ||