Author Topic: BlockOS [On hold until further notice] (Read 82280 times)

Scout31 · April 22, 2012, 03:26:36 PM

Quote from: Brian Smithers on April 22, 2012, 03:13:26 PM

it has some default apps - Change profiles to match style, register differently
a menu bar - Isn't that the thing on the side in BOS7?
a few little gimmicks in the menu bar. - Update a textgui every second with getDateTime(), name a textgui the same as the one in the auth bar
a start menu. - make that part of the gui visible when you click the button, invisible when you click it again or elsewhere
it has an app system. - Execute the file main.cs within any zip file in a certain folder, then place a icon and text on a grid accordingly
a skinning system. - Load different art
a user app system. - Isn't that on the website, which has no reason to change?
an auth system - Call and response, checking with http://auth.blockland.us/authQuery.php on the server-side
an auto updater. - Check if a number equals another number, and download a file accordingly.

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Brian Smithers · April 22, 2012, 03:39:30 PM

i guess i have failed to explain this to you.

Nexus · April 22, 2012, 04:14:58 PM

All of the numbers you estimated for how long each feature will take seem ridiculously low. If you think you can crank out an add-on the size of BlockOS in a few days then go ahead and try. Interfacing is some of the most time consuming programming out there.

Scout31 · April 22, 2012, 04:24:01 PM

Quote from: Nexus on April 22, 2012, 04:14:58 PM

All of the numbers you estimated for how long each feature will take seem ridiculously low. If you think you can crank out an add-on the size of BlockOS in a few days then go ahead and try. Interfacing is some of the most time consuming programming out there.

My point is that it doesn't take a month to do all that stuff. I admit that I estimated low, but it's still not a month worth of work.

Fluff-is-back · April 22, 2012, 04:48:37 PM

Quote from: Scout31 on April 22, 2012, 04:24:01 PM

My point is that it doesn't take a month to do all that stuff. I admit that I estimated low, but it's still not a month worth of work.

It takes a month for it to look good, and work well.
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Brian Smithers · April 22, 2012, 05:00:44 PM

Fluffy got the right idea.
Anyway ima work on stuff.
first fluffy has to make all the icons ;P

Port · April 23, 2012, 04:43:41 AM

Just to show you guys that this doesn't take that long, I'll make some small retina-style "client-sided app system"

Brian Smithers · April 23, 2012, 06:49:04 AM

Quote from: Port on April 23, 2012, 04:43:41 AM

Just to show you guys that this doesn't take that long, I'll make some small retina-style "client-sided app system"

Go fot it.

Port · April 23, 2012, 07:53:02 AM

Less than 22 minutes of total coding time.
The "GUI" can be toggled anywhere by pressing Ctrl+Space, causing it to smoothly slide in or out of the screen.
Has a retina-style display with full control over keyboard and mouse input.

Example application structure:

Going to add horizontal application scrolling and some other stuff in a moment.