GUI Themes/TODO

We plan to implement a new GUI look & feel in ScummVM, roughly based on the new look of our web site. Some concept drafts of the new look can be found here: http://www.thekrest.de/wip/scummvm/

You can also read the documentation on the GUI Themes.

To Do

• Add possibility to specify shadow types to widget classes and to individual widgets
• Theme hints too
• List widget
  • get mock-up from Krest
  • shadows under lists. We do not enable those because of missing scrollbar mock-up
  • right side padding
  • fix caret misaligning
• PopUp widget (aka drop-down list)
  • get mock-up from Krest
  • shadow is wrong
  • right side text padding
• Tab widget
  • tab widget is drawn completely wrong now
    • though it would be nice to leave current drawing style and select them via widget property
• Editable text widget
  • fix caret misaligning
• Button widget
  • top line should be drawn with lighter color to make it look more natural
• Slider Widget
  • top line should be drawn with lighter color to make it look more natural
• Checkbox widget
  • smaller version of widget for 320xY resolution
• Dialogs
  • Scumm save/load dialog
    • put thumbnail and save properties inside one container. Container code is missing now
  • About dialog
    • looks bad. Probably add some shadows and text padding
    • fix glitch at the top of the dialog where part of the characters get stuck
    • [Classic theme] Text seems to be drawn over the dialog frame. At least at the top of the dialog.
    • Often (always?) crashes when changing from 1x to 2x, or from 2x to 3x scaler.
  • Chooser dialog (add/edit game)
    • proper coloring and list shadow
    • The text "Norwegian BokmÃ¥l" isn't rendered correctly since our fonts do not have the letter "Ã…".
      • If we decide to use Latin-1 fonts instead, we should also update the About dialog to use accented characters where appropriate.
  • Debug console
    • Slow when typing commands. Perhaps the redrawing could be made more intelligent. (I haven't looked at how it works currently.)
    • The text is bordering on unreadably small.
    • Does not restore the old mouse cursor when closed.
• Cursor handling
  • Cursor "jumps" in SCUMM games when opening/closing the F5 menu. (Or, more likely, when going between overlay and non-overlay mode.)
  • ScummVM crashes if, while in the GUI, changing from a 2x to 1x scaler while the cursor is in the upper right area of the screen.
    • The crash happens in the backend, when it tries to update a rectangle with completely bogus width. Perhaps a negative width stored in an unsigned variable?