Developing the Cowardly W.I.M.P Library: An introduction

The Cowardly W.I.M.P library is my new hobbyist programming project.

Essentially It's a GUI library that will work alongside SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) in C++

This video is an introduction to the concept of the library, basically it's just me explaining what the library is and why you might be interested in it.

If you are interested, it would be great to hear some feedback, it would be nice to know if there's going to be any takers once the library is finished.

More updates to come in the future, hopefully more than one every 7 months :P

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• SDL
• library
• W.I.M.P
• C++
• programming
• GUI
• menus
• development
• Log

[MassimoPiai]

Windows Icons Menus Pointer

[ProgrammerInProgress]

@MassimoPiai  That's what I would define it as, although I have heard a few people reword two the words and say them the other way, but I think the way you said it is the right one

[koobydotnet]

Hmm... You have gone from 16:9 squashed to 4:3 to 4:3 stretched to 16:9 :S. :)

[ProgrammerInProgress]

@koobydotnet yeah, I was just experimenting with the resolutions, I remember the good old days when my 4:3 videos would look fine in the youtube player, then the vertical bars came in and ruined that, I don't really have the money to get a decent HD camera, so I make do :P

[adrianisen]

Nice video, subbed u should make som progress videos as well so we could see a little of the game part. :P

[ProgrammerInProgress]

@adrianisen thank you for your interest.

I've recorded a few things, I've made a massive talky video, which I just need to compress now, so that should be up in the next few weeks.

As for showing some tangible progress, I totally agree, as soon as I have something interesting to show , I'll show it, at the minute I'm just testing things in the console/dumping numbers to files, and designing, but soon enough, I'll make more stuff to show!

[clsDevAaron]

I did indeed wonder, "Who is this guy?!" :D

Hope this is still going well.

[Z3r0XoL]

@ProgrammerInProgress yeah, time is always an issue, well try to start with a really simple(as simple as possible and probably as dynamic as well if you are gonna add stuff to it) design and after youve got it functioning add more and more untill it becommes what you shape it too :P

[ProgrammerInProgress]

@Z3r0XoL That's quite interesting, how did you find it , in terms of difficulty overall?

and yeah, this project is hard to get enthusiastic about sometimes, mainly since I haven't got my design right yet, whenever I think of a good one, I usually end up finding some fault with it, also since I study at university, I don't always have the time to work on my own projects.

[Z3r0XoL]

I have also worked on a GUI in SDL, ive added buttons, windows, checkboxes, overall functioning dynamic themes, but then i lost the interest because of making a game instead :P, might be working on the gui later, i watched the video but there is no sound in school lol :P