openframeworks/openFrameworks — Issue #1036: ofxGui -> ofGui - how/should we bring into core?
Author: ofTheo
Created: 2012-03-05 16:56:26+00:00
State: open

xml is one of the reasons this is currently an addon.
the original idea was to have something simple and minimal that could be in the core.
also something which could be built off of for larger gui addons ( hence ofParameter )

I see a couple of options going forward.

1) swtich from xml to newline separated text files and move ofGui into core
this would be quite simple as ofParameter already has a name, value structure

2) same as 1) but keep ofxGui as an addon - making it a bit simpler to add to a project
2b) add ofParameter to core as it is more general purpose

3) bring ofxXmlSettings into the core and bring ofGui into core.

anyway I thought it would be good to get some discussion going about this.
I'm especially interested in setting up ofParam and ofBaseGui in a way to make things modular and extendable.

also could be interesting to look at a way to represent a collection/group of ofParameters
some of this might be similar to some of the stuff @memotv was doing with his plist style system.