GUI revamp

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The current UI in game is - well - functional. It has many features and you can 
customize everything. The problem is everything is in 1 dialog and it is very 
cluttered.

The UI would look much cleaner and nicer and would also be more intuitive if 
everything is split up into several menus - e.g. when you start the game, there 
should be a main menu, that only gives you access to starting a game, an 
"options" button that shows a seperate options window, and a button to exit the 
game.

While in-game, pressing Esc should lead to a pause menu that has the entries 
Resume, Options, Exit to Menu and Exit Game.

I know it's easier to have everything in 1 dialog. But for the player it's much 
cleaner and nicer when we tidy up the UI. Also this gives more room for future 
features (multiplayer etc.) - with the old gui there wouldnt be space anymore 
soon.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by scrawl...@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2011 at 8:32

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This new gui really must work with keyboard. If many windows will be shown, 
each one simpler with few buttons, we need to have keys 
up,down,enter,backspace/esc to navigate easily and fast through them.

Original comment by Cry...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2011 at 5:14

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I think that could be difficult with MyGUI, since it's widgets don't seem to 
have a "focused with keyboard" property like most other toolkits (Qt, gtk...)

I could think of making a simple "Menu" class that handles a single window with 
only buttons ("menu entries") in it, and it would keep track of the focused 
menu entry and highlight it in a different color.

Or we could achieve this "Keyboard friendlyness" by setting a shortcut for 
activating each menu entry and displaying it.
e.g. Start _New game | _Options | _Quit

Original comment by scrawl...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2011 at 7:56

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This is required for championships/tutorials.
Basically a short elegant simple game menu with:
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(Resume Game) - if started (or continue to load last)
Single Race
Championship
Tutorial

Replays
Options
*Quit - is in corner so not needed here
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Then in Single Race we would have those tabs (that we know): Track, Car, Setup.
And in Options those: Screen, Graphics, View, Input, Sound, About

Keyboard navigation for game menu (Up,Down,Back/Esc,Enter) is a must (at least 
for me).

Original comment by Cry...@gmail.com on 16 Dec 2011 at 7:36

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Gui done, testing welcome. Keyboard works.

Original comment by Cry...@gmail.com on 16 Jan 2012 at 10:14

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GUI Problems left (imo):

 - championship window title is "single race"
 - should show the main menu at startup, instead of the window that was active when you quit
 - fix the "can't click anything" bug (sometimes appears when you click something in the main menu, then you can't click anything on the first tab and have to switch to another tab first, then everything works again)
 - mouse not shown on the dialog that appears after you started a championship

Original comment by scrawl...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2012 at 7:32

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 - while in the dialog that appears when you started a championship, pressing gui toggle key (default tab) should show/hide this dialog instead of show/hide the other gui  (since you can get back to this other window by pressing "Back")

Original comment by scrawl...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2012 at 7:34

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 - gui toggle while ingame should show a menu similiar to the main menu, but with added contextual buttons like "Resume game", "Restart game", "Abort championship" and such.

Original comment by scrawl...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2012 at 7:36

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ah write with numbers, not just -

done:
 - championship window title is "single race" (changes now in code)
 - fix the "can't click anything" bug (by scrawl, seems fixed)
 - mouse not shown on the dialog that appears after you started a championship

also added shortcuts with alt eg.
  alt-T - track (single race), alt-H - championships, G graphics (options), V view, R replays, S screen, I input

the rest I find arguable or not easy (comment 15.2, 16, 17)

Original comment by Cry...@gmail.com on 9 Feb 2012 at 12:55

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about comment 17:
"Resume game" - is just pressing tab again
"Restart game" - is F4 (or F5)
"Abort championship" - what should it do ? with the scene, unload it, go back 
to blue background ?

And most probably: making variable count of buttons in main menu would be awful 
in code, for up/down keys and that key focus panels.

I'm thinking of adding Help in main menu (above options). it would have 3 tabs: 
some general info (up,dn,enter,backspace - navigate), readme.txt text viewer, 
and about tab (moved from options window).

Original comment by Cry...@gmail.com on 9 Feb 2012 at 2:11

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Help window is there. has Readme.txt, About tab with logos, and empty main tab 
for some short usefull infos, not sure what.

Original comment by Cry...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2012 at 5:10

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Original comment by Cry...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2012 at 7:19

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