MGTK

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Themable GUI framework.

Screenshot of the showcase program
Screenshot of the showcase program

I’ve always enjoyed a lot those old DOS games that implemented windowing UI elements. I’ve spent countless hours playing SimCity, Transport Tycoon, Theme Park and the like as a young kid. When I started making games I ended up gravitating towards creating similar games.

I’ve played a bunch with Allegro’s Atari ST’s-inspired windowing system, back when I was making games in C. When I started using c# at work and migrated to XNA/MonoGame for my hobby gamedev projects I didn’t find any tools or libraries that satisfied my UI needs at the time.

I was using WinForms a lot at work projects, so I ended up building MGTK inspired by that structure and philosophy.

public class frmMixer : Form
{
    public frmMixer(WindowManager windowmanager)
        : base(windowmanager)
    {
        WindowManager = windowmanager;

        int grpWidth = 40;
        for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
        {
            GroupBox grpChannel = new GroupBox(this) 
            { 
              X = i * grpWidth + (i + 1) * 5, Y = 0, 
              Width = grpWidth, Height = 100, 
              Text = (i + 1).ToString() 
            };

            TrackBar tckVolume = new TrackBar(this) 
            { 
              Parent = grpChannel, 
              X = 10, Y = 15, Width = 20, Height = 80, 
              TickStyle = TickStyle.Both,
              Orientation = TrackBarOrientation.Vertical, 
              BackColor = new Color(170, 170, 170) 
            };

            grpChannel.Controls.Add(tckVolume);

            Controls.Add(grpChannel);

            GroupBox grpPan = new GroupBox(this) 
            { 
              X = i * grpWidth + (i + 1) * 5, Y = 100, 
              Width = grpWidth, Height = 50, 
              Text = "Pan" 
            };

            TrackBar tckPan = new TrackBar(this) 
            { 
              Parent = grpPan, 
              X = 5, Y = 15, Width = grpWidth - 10, Height = 30, 
              TickStyle = TickStyle.Both,
              Orientation = TrackBarOrientation.Horizontal, 
              BackColor = new Color(170, 170, 170), 
              Maximum = 2 
            };

            grpPan.Controls.Add(tckPan);

            Controls.Add(grpPan);
        }

        this.MaximizeWindowButtonVisible = this.MinimizeWindowButtonVisible = false;
    }
}
Code to create the Mixer form pictured above