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BrandonFun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
I thought it was about time to show all of you why I'm in charge so heres a little demo to make you drool. Images tell a thousand words but the Demo tells more. [file name=F4_WD1-034d01246f527d57738b7f5b60b18eb7.zip size=554403]http://qbguiblog.xetaspace.net/images/fbfiles/files/F4_WD1-034d01246f527d57738b7f5b60b18eb7.zip[/file]		2008-07-104:27 PM
agumaRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
how do you run it? nvm i found out how to run it but its a bit slow		2008-07-104:28 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
What are you running with? I works fine for me.		2008-07-104:31 PM
agumaRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
im using dosbox cause it wouldnt work on windows.		2008-07-104:32 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
It could also be your graphics card. FB sometimes doesn't seem to like systems without graphics memory.		2008-07-104:36 PM
agumaRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
oh. hmm...		2008-07-104:37 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
DOSBox runs at 2000 cycles default Thats slower than a 486! Try it at 30,000 cycles at it will be better(To add more cycles use Ctrl+F12) What do you think Todd?		2008-07-104:38 PM
agumaRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
i set the config file so it runs at 25000 cycles, but it's still a bit slow.		2008-07-104:39 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Yeah, its not really optimized.		2008-07-104:41 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
AWESOME!! It needs controls though. I like how you have it transparently fade out near the top. Also, why is "M*A*S*H" the background?		2008-07-104:45 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Where do you think "Hawkeye" came from? Its just an early demo to show you all up, thats why there is not controls yet.		2008-07-104:52 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Ahh....		2008-07-104:54 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Well for fun I "TODDMODD"ed the demo. [img size=640]http://qbguiblog.xetaspace.net/images/fbfiles/images/Todd_WM.png[/img] Heres what you need to do it: Overwrite the TEST.BMP with this image: http://www.abm-enterprises.net/fractal-art/red-pink-wallpaper.jpg And change the PREFS.TXT to say: [i]255,192,203 3[/i]		2008-07-106:29 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
"TODDMODD"ed?		2008-07-106:36 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
TODDMODD: A term used by GUI coders to say that they have made there GUI pink. Although origins are not exactly known, the Pink WinXP theme in Fun500 GUI 2 was called "Todd" at one time, and in RMOS, typing TODDMODD at the desktop turns the wallpaper pink.		2008-07-106:40 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
So my name is associated with the color pink?		2008-07-106:42 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Essentially. Did you try the Mod? It looks cool.		2008-07-106:44 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Not yet. I will.		2008-07-106:51 PM
rCXRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Looks good so far and runs well in DOS.		2008-07-1010:34 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
If only the damn contest would let me enter!		2008-07-1010:36 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
I just optimized some! I tested at 20,000 cycles in DOS Box and it seemed more usable.		2008-07-111:11 PM
agumaRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
nice		2008-07-112:03 PM
agumaRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
how did you get the windows to be semi-transparent?		2008-07-112:35 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
I used FreeBASIC, I dunno how to do it in QB.		2008-07-112:44 PM
RetroMRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
I wrote code to do transparency in QB with the future.lib but it's rather slow.		2008-07-114:25 PM
agumaRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
could I have it to see how to do it?		2008-07-114:39 PM
agumaRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
oh finally now it goes to the next page!		2008-07-114:42 PM
RetroMRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Here's my code: FOR X% = 100 TO 300 FOR Y% = 100 TO 300 Color2RGB Future.POINT(X%, Y%), r2%, g2%, b2% Future.PSET X%, Y%, RGB2Color(50, 50, b2%) NEXT Y% NEXT X% This should create a transparent blue square over whatever graphics are there.		2008-07-114:45 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
everyone clap for murray		2008-07-115:03 PM
RetroMRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Do you have to make gay comments all the time?		2008-07-115:14 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
It's his orientation.		2008-07-119:02 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
I'm strait any gay talk and you're banned.		2008-07-119:17 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
So you say I'm gay but flip out when anyone says it about you? You gotta come out of the closet some time... lol		2008-07-119:21 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Do you want to be banned? NO GAY TALK!		2008-07-119:22 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Fine but stop saying I'm gay!		2008-07-119:25 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Thats included in the NO GAY TALK!		2008-07-119:26 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Okay. No gay talk FROM ANYONE.		2008-07-119:27 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
I'm the sheriff in these parts! NOT you!		2008-07-119:45 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Just don't get shot.		2008-07-1110:01 PM
jasonwoodlandRe:Fun500 4
[b]Brandon wrote:[/b] [quote]DOSBox runs at 2000 cycles default Thats slower than a 486! Try it at 30,000 cycles at it will be better(To add more cycles use Ctrl+F12) What do you think Todd?[/quote] Is there a way to get rid of the whole delay? I only use DOSBox so I can use other than Screen 0		2008-07-204:17 AM
agumaRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
sorry but there isnt any way that i know of.		2008-07-202:15 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
DOSBox is a full PC emulator. Thats why it does slower. In Linux DOSEMU seems faster, but in Windows XP you're stuck with DOSBOX. If you really want a good GUI Making/Testing machine, then I would suggest Windows 98SE, but keep it off-line, also I would install DOSBox on it so you can slow things down. (Yes I just described my current development machine.)		2008-07-202:47 PM
agumaRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Is there a better emulator for windows?		2008-07-203:23 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
I just reconfigure DOSBox so it runs like it's on crack.		2008-07-203:40 PM
agumaRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
how?		2008-07-204:45 PM
jasonwoodlandRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Crack, lol. How?		2008-07-205:53 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
todds on crack so everything is like crack to him. :P		2008-07-205:53 PM
ToddRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
And Brandon's on pot so that's why he puts funky colors all over his apps. lol Anyway, here's the CPU configuration I put in for DOSBox: [code]core=simple cycles=50050 cycleup=500 cycledown=20[/code]		2008-07-206:10 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
why 50050? 64000 is much more round. On slow CPUs 50000 would be to much for DOSBox.		2008-07-206:13 PM
ksrRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
Looks nice, but your sorting is faulty - in certain situations, bringing a window to the foreground brings with it another window. Also, could you put 'sleep 1' at the end of your loop? When running the demo in Windows, it seems to use 100% of the CPU (adding this line solves this).		2008-07-207:04 PM
BrandonRe:Fun500 4 \"Hawkeye\" Windowing Demo 1
The code is going anyways. Im using the old 3.0 base and using some ideas from this. I'm pretty sure it has the sleep 1 in there. I need to dig up your old comments on 3 on the archives to see if I can implement any of it.		2008-07-207:26 PM

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