drop down panels to show data

OpenGL Development JOGL Development
#1

How do I make, or what is it called so that I can read up on it … the transparent panels you normally see on a game console when playing a game where the stats are located.

I would like to make some popup or dropdown menus appear in my app so that I can display data. Currently I just use glutBitmapString() calls but would like something nicer like you see in the games.

Any help much appreciated.

#2

I guess you have the option of either creating your own widgets or reusing an existing opengl ui toolkit. There are some c++ toolkits, but I don’t know of any that have been ported to jogl. Most are based on glut, but glut is similar enough to jogl/awt that it shouldn’t be too difficult to port one of them.
You can find some references here.