bGUI, text input, and GUI slider

[dbawel]

Hi,

I haven't yet had sucess in reading the text field value from a text_input  widget and set the string value as a variable I can send to other functions. Can you provide an example of getting the value of a text_input widget assigned as a variable? Also, I need to make sure that pressing the Enter key on my keyboard doesn't execute a return - even when my mouse curser is hovering over the field, as I need to get the text_input values from several widgets using a GUI button click. So if you have time, I would be eternally grateful if you might either provide a code example for setting the widget properly without a return on Enter, and to get the string value from an image button to make certain I'm creating the text_input correctly? Or if you have a link to any updated demo or page with this widget included, perhaps the demo will show me what I'm doing incorrectly. I searched GitHub, but haven't seen an updated demo in a few months, and couldn't locate any reference to a text_input in the "src" or any other directory/file.

I also require a slider control for a video player I have. I suppose I could pick an image button and drag, but there's so much else to build into this as well. Have you built a slider control in bGUI?

Thank you,

DB

[Wingnut]

Hi DB, sorry to butt-in but I didn't see any mention of input, either.  bGUI looks like it is a framework that can be added-to, though.  It could easily become the target of a widget-making contest. 

I had a little fun with it, because... well, I've never really driven it.  I borrowed Temechon's bGUI demo, and fiddled with it a bit... pretty fun.  http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#1KKOZA#5

But yep, bGUI could use some more toys/power... if that is possible, and it is.  Wouldn't it be cool if we designed a universal 2D widget interface, so these widgets could be used in bGUI, castorGUI, Dialog, and maybe even in Nockawa's new 2D super-engine?  4-way interchangeability.  Yum! 

Ok, sorry to interrupt for no good reason.  I gave some fleeting thought to coding-up bGUI.input v1.0... but the dog started whining, so I'm not so sure about that idea.    I think it might take a focus system to accomplish both the input and the slider.

[dbawel]

I'm currently usng bGUI and CastorGUI in the same interface, so there are few incompatabilites, except canvas positions for odd display resolutions such as smart phones. I can also build objects such as a slider in bGUI, except I'm looking at the benefits of using Widgets over JSON objects, which appears to be the primary difference between the two extensions.

DB