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Moving UI Components
« on: 6 December 2008, 14:44:00 »
I think components.cpp/h should be moved to the gui folder.

Also the rendering methods for components should be moved from the Renderer class to their component class. For example, Renderer::renderButton should be moved to GraphicButton::render. This should make it easier to replace with a GUI library and also makes calling simpler. ie in menu_state_root.cpp "renderer.renderButton(&buttonNewGame);" becomes "buttonNewGame.render();"

computeCenteredPos and Renderer::renderText should be moved to GraphicComponent class. renderText is called in Renderer::renderResourceStatus but other than that I couldn't see any problems moving the methods.

It might even be slightly quicker since it wouldn't need to call the getX() sort of methods, although, they might be inlined.
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