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| Brandon | Whats next?Hello, I'm Brandon Cornell. My first GUI was Fun500 and it started as a simple unitasker, and moved into a scripter. My Next project has been kind of undecided for a long time, as you can see by my past few releases: unidesk,Fun500 4 Windowing Demo, Fun500 4, and Viper. Scripting, in my opinion in a BASIC GUI won't work well, mainly because you have limited resources to begin with and the scripting kernel takes a lot of them away. There are a lot of good free Unix-Like OSes that preform good enough for daily use at 200Mhz, so any GUI I make will not be aimed at that kind of system, more than likely 33Mhz will be the target, but it will run in VGA on a 16bit CPU, so it will run on my 286. How I imagine it, there is a copy of QB1.1's exe and a batch file called GUI.BAT, then a folder with the sources of all your installed apps and the libraries ETC. When you run GUI.BAT, it launches QB which will merge all the code into one EXE. This one exe will be set up so that it can "multitask" between apps compiled in. Because its all one EXE, you don't have to mess with DOS trying to do fake multitasking, it will be like a scripter, except no scripts, chunks of actual EXE. This system could include a package manager to update the sources, and allow new apps to be installed, or to remove old ones. Does it sound interesting to anyone? | 2009-01-25 | 1:41 PM |
| Brandon | Re:Whats next?Thanks for the enthusiasm! :P | 2009-01-27 | 11:56 AM |
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