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How can I make a button and textboxes in opengl and GLUT
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Hey I want to know a library that I can use to make buttons and text boxes in xy position help will be appreciated.

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A lot but most of it is failed and deleted. Just want to know any library that helps me place buttons in x and y position. Code needed in c++
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Richard MacCutchan 4-Jul-20 4:24am    
Your question is not clear. All GUI systems allow you to create Buttons and TextBoxes.
Member 14869357 6-Jul-20 10:19am    
Not in opengl. You need a external library that allows us to use function that help make buttons and textboxes noun as gui. Do you know any
VD-Flash 7-Sep-20 13:38pm    
If you don't find a suitable library then you can build your own. See my answer.

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If you are totally concerned about OpenGL and GLUT then it might seem difficult. If you don't find a suitable library then build one.

You can create buttons using textures. Load a picture of button as a texture and specify an area on the screen to render a quad. Assign the texture to the quad. And you can check whether a click was done on it using the mouse callback of GLUT.

For text boxes, do the same. Create a rectangular area using the vertices and check for key presses using the key callback of GLUT. When user enters a key, print it in the rectangle using some function. Also, create a variable to store the answer and add the letter that user has presses to that variable.

There, you have your custom key and textbox library.
 
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VD-Flash 7-Sep-20 14:58pm    
Take a look at this. This is an old GLUT based gui library for OpenGL (in case you don't want to work out). I would recommend Win32 because it has all the features you want (in case you don't like the above library).
Member 15596513 24-Mar-23 1:06am    
but my OS isnt Windows, how to create Textbox in Linux
VD-Flash 24-Mar-23 11:49am    
You can build GLUI library for Linux too. Here's the GitHub page for it.
https://github.com/libglui/glui
And if you want bare metal programming for Linux, just stick to my answer and build everything yourself with any customization you like.
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