msylvia / squid

C# Realtime GUI System

Squid UI framework

What is Squid?

SQUID is a framework to create user interfaces for games and other 2D/3D realtime applications, using a Retained Mode system. SQUID does not depend on a certain rendering engine, you can use it with any engine you like, on any platform that supports the .NET 2.0 framework.

• it's a UI blackbox
• it's easy to integrate
• it is engine agnostic
• it does not manage actual texture or font resources, only integers and strings
• it doesn’t draw anything; you do

All you need to do is to implement a single interface - the ISquidRenderer.

Example Screenshots

Sample Arrangment

Custom Game Engine

Features:

• scale9 texture grid
• docking, anchoring
• margin,padding
• z-order, clipping, scissoring
• hierarchical opacity
• input event handlers
• international keyboard support
• custom mouse cursors
• tooltips
• drag & drop
• snapping windows
• modal windows
• control state fading
• easy skinning via styles
• automatic batching
• easy to extend
• it’s fast

Standard Controls:

• Button
• CheckBox
• DropDownList
• Dialog
• FlowLayoutFrame
• Frame
• ImageControl
• Label
• ListBox
• ListView
• Panel
• RadioButton
• Resizer
• Scrollbar
• Slider
• SplitContainer
• TabControl
• TextArea
• TextBox
• TreeView
• Window

TODOs:

• merge TextBox (single line) and TextArea (multi line)
• remove Xml namespace, classes and serializer. should be external (json/yaml/etc)
• clean up comments and commented code