Closed paroj closed 8 months ago
Currently Ogre provides a config dialog written in the platform specific tookit via this API: https://github.com/OGRECave/ogre/blob/564df0072c3862ecd7f2b927497bedb9c06b886d/Components/Bites/include/OgreBitesConfigDialog.h#L47
However, on Linux the Xaw toolkit is now becoming obsolete due to not being compatible with Wayland. While we could port that to e.g. GTK, the better alternative would be to use ImGui so we get a consistent cross-platform implementation.
Using ImGui means that we are drawing the Widgets using Ogre and thus it is no longer a separate "utility" that runs before Ogre launches. Fortunately, this is exactly how the SampleBrowser configuration screen already works and thus should not be an issue: https://github.com/OGRECave/ogre/blob/564df0072c3862ecd7f2b927497bedb9c06b886d/Samples/Browser/include/SampleBrowser.h#L375
If this is done, we can drop the native dialogs with Ogre 15.
Currently Ogre provides a config dialog written in the platform specific tookit via this API: https://github.com/OGRECave/ogre/blob/564df0072c3862ecd7f2b927497bedb9c06b886d/Components/Bites/include/OgreBitesConfigDialog.h#L47
However, on Linux the Xaw toolkit is now becoming obsolete due to not being compatible with Wayland. While we could port that to e.g. GTK, the better alternative would be to use ImGui so we get a consistent cross-platform implementation.
Using ImGui means that we are drawing the Widgets using Ogre and thus it is no longer a separate "utility" that runs before Ogre launches. Fortunately, this is exactly how the SampleBrowser configuration screen already works and thus should not be an issue: https://github.com/OGRECave/ogre/blob/564df0072c3862ecd7f2b927497bedb9c06b886d/Samples/Browser/include/SampleBrowser.h#L375
If this is done, we can drop the native dialogs with Ogre 15.