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GUI coders seem to like to work when a contest or prize is involved. So lets brainstorm ideas for contests, and if the 1st one works well, maybe we have one every 3 months? Some ideas I have: Best Multiline Input Object Best Filedialog Object Best Windowing System Most Unique desktop/launcher		2009-01-1112:11 PM
pharoahRe:GUI Contest
Best scripting system would be a good one.		2009-01-119:39 PM
ToddRe:GUI Contest
What about making a look-alike to another GUI? Like Mac OS, older Windows, or a Linux WM?		2009-01-138:00 PM
jasonwoodlandRe:GUI Contest
I like that idea, don't forget OS/2 and RISC OS :silly:		2009-01-138:13 PM
pharoahRe:GUI Contest
Risc would be really interesting. Many parts of the GUI function in unique and unconventional ways.		2009-01-138:36 PM
ToddRe:GUI Contest
Or, how about a clone of a QB GUI that doesn't come with source code?		2009-01-139:36 PM
jasonwoodlandRe:GUI Contest
Cool idea! Pharoah, what do you mean?		2009-01-1311:29 PM
pharoahRe:GUI Contest
Well for example Risc doesn't have many dialog boxes. Instead it relies heavily on the pop-up menu system built into the OS. Some settings can actually be changed by a test box in the menu. Also, drag-and drop is highly integrated from what I understand. When you click save, the program you're running gives you an icon that represents the file, which you drag into the file manager to save. I think this is called a GUI pipe, by the way. Edit: Might be easier to do a clone of Arthur :).		2009-01-146:50 AM
ToddRe:GUI Contest
Start simple then work your way up. An Arthur clone would be neat! I'd like to give it a shot since it's simple.		2009-01-149:32 AM
Re:GUI Contest
Yeah. Arthur had a low-color palette, so it'd work in screen 12 mode. It was also single tasked I think. Not too hard to make, and the apps were upwardly compatible with Risc OS. If you were to create a similar system to arthur, you could them ake a risc clone and use the old apps if you did it right.		2009-01-1410:27 AM
ToddRe:GUI Contest
I'd have to study the file headers for that though.		2009-01-144:35 PM
BrandonRe:GUI Contest
I think he meant if you made a GUI like Arthur, you could use code from it in a RISC OS clone.		2009-01-147:45 PM
ToddRe:GUI Contest
Oh. *smacks* I thought it was like using the programs from a RISC OS clone and then implementing them around the GUI. :P		2009-01-1510:54 AM
pharoahRe:GUI Contest
I kind of meant a bit of both. What you could do is implement a uni-tasking GUI with a scripting language that looked and worked like Arthur. Then you could improve the windowing system and GUI to make it work like Risc OS, and add multi-tasking, but make it compatible with the Arthur clone scripts because the interfaces are similar so the commands could be similar.		2009-01-1511:00 AM

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