Guides

Step-by-step guides for common tasks. Each builds something small and complete; the Concepts pages explain the ideas behind them.

• Building a game menu: a main menu, a pause menu and a settings page with Apply and Cancel, behind one frame with back history.
• Custom controls: a HealthBar control with a template part, a markup name and a default look.
• Custom themes: recolor the built-in theme with a game palette, or replace it with a whole theme file.
• Hot reload and the in-game editor: edit a page in your text editor or over the running game, in Debug builds only.
• Gamepad-friendly UI: focus on open, layouts the D-pad can walk, dialogs, and a switch for gameplay.
• Localizing your game UI: keys in markup, .po files, a language setting and community translations.
• Writing an engine integration: what an engine provides to run IcyUI, using FNA as the target.