Remnantmods

Post pictures of custom controls, full application GUI's, or an other programming related imagery in this thread...

Ah somewhere where I can post images of my custom controls...

Well here are some:

- Custom Treeview


- Custom toolbar


- Custom Button

In all of the images, you notice the controls and icon in the caption bar, my custom form enables items to be placed up there. Customization is gooooooood.

Mode's UI:

Image Link
Image might have been a tad bit big for the forums, so I linked it. I made a custom menu strip because, once again I was tired of the original .NET one.

I figured that all my new ideas would be a bitch to implement around vibrance's current code.
So yet again, a new project rises...

That's look very nice Dark! so can you switch to shaded mode with rth?

Dark, I moved your GUI here. I think we should keep the other thread to in-game images only..

And so it begins....

Progress...

Almost a meta editor:

I've been thinking about having an option for that tree style meta editor where you can select the field you want to edit out of a treeview, as well as the usual setup, and possibly popups as well.

OwnZ joO wrote:I've been thinking about having an option for that tree style meta editor where you can select the field you want to edit out of a treeview, as well as the usual setup, and possibly popups as well.

I was talking to Zone117x and he mentioned that he was able to make an extreamly fast meta editor using html/css. I've been thinking about rewriting the core code for mutation in native C++ to remove a lot of bloat and simplify some on going problems, then have the gui in C# and just call to the core library for actual data processing. The gui would have it's own definition set for the meta editor and the core would have a seperate set for processing tags/maps. I think if I coupled the html meta editor with the seperation of the gui and core code it could yield some nice results.

I don't think the poor performance on most meta editors has as much to do with using WinForms as it does with people not properly using the layout features and managing resource usage correctly. You might be pretty well off with what you're suggesting, but you can take a lot of bloat and unnecessary code out of your controls by using the anchor and dock controls along with the margin and padding and auto size features of the controls. Combine that with some lazy loading on the TagBlocks by having expanding panels that populate on first time they're opened and you will see some big performance gains. I could be wrong, I just don't see how html must be so much better.

PS: How you been Grim, haven't seen you on here in a while?

Now reads values

OwnZ joO wrote:I don't think the poor performance on most meta editors has as much to do with using WinForms as it does with people not properly using the layout features and managing resource usage correctly. You might be pretty well off with what you're suggesting, but you can take a lot of bloat and unnecessary code out of your controls by using the anchor and dock controls along with the margin and padding and auto size features of the controls. Combine that with some lazy loading on the TagBlocks by having expanding panels that populate on first time they're opened and you will see some big performance gains. I could be wrong, I just don't see how html must be so much better.

PS: How you been Grim, haven't seen you on here in a while?

Bungie even said in one of their dev docs that they had problems with Guerilla when making halo 2 and running out of memory for all of the controls. With that many controls loaded it's just inevitable to run out of memory.

I've been pretty good, this summer has been pretty interesting so far, some good things some bad things. Really not looking foward to college this fall though

click I'm really interested in how to read the meta would you care to send me the source? Do you keep revisions or just continually update?

bumlove wrote:click I'm really interested in how to read the meta would you care to send me the source? Do you keep revisions or just continually update?

Lol, not now. I am probably going to re write the source to make it faster and more efficient. Plus i don't have bitmasks or tags in the meta yet...

Click16 wrote:

bumlove wrote:click I'm really interested in how to read the meta would you care to send me the source? Do you keep revisions or just continually update?

Lol, not now. I am probably going to re write the source to make it faster and more efficient. Plus i don't have bitmasks or tags in the meta yet...

The hard part is that your tree needs to be updated with every reflexive value change because not all reflexives have the same count as the others. This slowed me a bit when I did ME2.

It's not too bad to just scan the entire tag and build a tree of all the reflexives. That's what I would do if I implement this any time soon.

bumlove wrote:click I'm really interested in how to read the meta would you care to send me the source? Do you keep revisions or just continually update?

Also bumlove, ugh you do realize this is for the halo 2 beta right?

Bitmasks and Tags

Ident Swap??


Result:

Very nice Click!

Click you should open up a WIP Thread for Beta Meta Reader. Maybe change it to Beta Meta Editor since it can now edit.