UI recommendations

Hi All

I'm looking for recommendations for UI toolkits to use with JOGL - in the context of an OpenGL based game.  I'm familiar with Swing so I thought the Newt/Swing bridge looked promising.  I thought that GLG2D looked promising also.  And I see that JOGL has a new Graph API that might be used for rendering buttons etc by hand?  Mostly I'd be looking at rendering some buttons and text fields and obviously hooking up something to process events from these.

Can you guys share with me any recommendations or comments on the status / capabilities / supported-ness of these projects please?  Of course, alternative suggestions would be welcome as well.

Thanks!

Kaff.

I'm the maintainer of glg2d and I can comment on that. glg2d provides support for the majority of the painting operations you want to do with Graphics2D. It's still a work in progress, but it can handily render an entire Swing hierarchy. Unfortunately, there are limitations in Swing that really do require that you are running inside a Swing app. If your JOGL canvas isn't in a JFrame, it becomes very hard to render Swing components. We do have some support for that, but it's limited.

Hi

Some JOGL adopters still ask for some JavaFX/JOGL interoperability but I'm not very motivated to work on it.

There is also Nifty, I have used it a little in jMonkeyEngine projects and it works fine in that framework
I have not used it (yet) in a pure JOGL project. http://nifty-gui.lessvoid.com/

Brandon Borkholder wrote

Unfortunately, there are limitations in Swing that really do require that you are running inside a Swing app.  If your JOGL canvas isn't in a JFrame, it becomes very hard to render Swing components.  We do have some support for that, but it's limited.

I usually render inside a JFrame anyway, so that's no issue for me.  I'll give glg2d a go.

Thanks!

*sigh*

Ok, I guess this marks me out as especially incompetent, but I can't build the GLG2D project.  I don't know why but I have NEVER had a Maven project build ever.

Is there somewhere I could download a jar from?

The homepage for glg2d has a link to download the auto-build jars.  You can get the latest from http://brandonborkholder.github.com/glg2d/maven2/org/jogamp/glg2d/glg2d/0.3-SNAPSHOT/

Scene2D-UI (LibGDX) is very good too.

Nifty GUI is enough for games but not as a replacement of Swing.