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Re: [LUG] graphical front end to a game

 

On 13/03/13 23:11, Neil Stone wrote:
>
> So you want a pointy click interface project?
>

yes,  it should be simple enough,   however there are lots of gui type
stuff out there,  and some are better than others for a specific
purpose,  the lug members have experience of this sort of thing so
should be able to suggest an option or more than one option that would
fit this.

thanks 

Paul
> On Mar 13, 2013 11:05 PM, "Paul Sutton" <zleap@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:zleap@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Yeah,  i know the commadn line options i just want suggestions as
>     to how
>     to build a gui for this,  as in do it myself as a project
>
>     as in which tools to use
>
>     Paul
>
>
>     On 13/03/13 23:04, Neil Stone wrote:
>     >
>     > Used man recently?
>     >
>     > On Mar 13, 2013 10:54 PM, "Paul Sutton" <zleap@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:zleap@xxxxxxxxx>
>     > <mailto:zleap@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:zleap@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Hi
>     >
>     >     Just been playing prboom which is a clone of the doom game
>     from about
>     >     1993,  if you remember doom it had loads of command line
>     options, in
>     >     addition the dos version had a nice gui type interface in
>     dos that you
>     >     clicked on certain options and it would pass these to the
>     game for
>     >     example
>     >
>     >     doom -warp13 -respawn would start doom,  warp to e1m3 and
>     respawn
>     >     monsters,
>     >
>     >     so the gui would allow you to set these options,  hit OK and
>     then have
>     >     it pass the specified arguments (??) to the game.
>     >
>     >     I want to do something similar,   but am not sure on the
>     best software
>     >     to do this,  I can use a nice xorg type gui program OR
>     something like
>     >     ncurses which will work on the command line and from a
>     window,  the
>     >     latter would be better.
>     >
>     >     any suggestions welcome, and YES i have googled but never
>     having done
>     >     this before would like a suggestion as to what i can use.
>     >
>     >     It needs to be fairly simple,
>     >
>     >     Paul
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