Re: alt.ascii-art ASCII-OS

CyberNerdX wrote:

> i dunno wether u guys are serious about this OS but I have treid
> programming a text editor with QBASIC and it did not comeout very good, nm
> a word processor

Wordperfect 5 was a good ascii word processor. Lotus 123 was a good ascii 
spreadsheet. So don't think it is impossible.

What you need to do is make components like first a function that draws a 
box then one that does a menu.

The little icons and things that make up a modern GUI are called widgets. 
Make a set of functions that can do widget stuff

Text box
Button
Radio button
check box
Combo box
List box
Scroll bars
Labels
etc etc

When you have all these functions your program can just call them and draw 
them to the screen easier.

addMenu ( "File", "Edit", "Attach" )
AddLabel (2,3, "Subject" )
Addtextbox ( 10,3 )
ExecuteGUI

Do you now about event driven stuff? Most GUI's are event driven. The 
programs draw their window then tell the GUI to run. The GUI monitors 
events and when say a button is clicked it passes stuff back to the 
program. This is easy in C but not so in other languages but it can be 
done. You can also implment multitasking.

If you have any questions about this stuff just ask me.

See the ascii attack game on my webpage.

Personally I would want it in colour but purists say ASCII is mono chrome.

Richard :)

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