A good gui needs...

Patz QuickBASIC Creations · Sat Aug 06, 2005 12:38 pm

Trying to develop a NGUI (non-graphical user interface), need ideas on what it needs... I've been developing my own SUBs for this stuff... Need Ideas...

YOU WONT LIKE ME WHEN I NEED IDEAS!!!

Patz QuickBASIC Creations · Sat Aug 06, 2005 12:45 pm

Follow-up: It has mouse support...
X-position, y-position, Left button, right button.

MystikShadows · Post by **MystikShadows** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:05 pm

lol well...the better part of a gui is how useful it is... So tools, utilities, apps for your GUI are definite plusses...

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Patz QuickBASIC Creations · Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:18 pm

which kinds?

MystikShadows · Post by **MystikShadows** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:37 pm

File managers, calculators, text / picture editors, maybe push things forward and make a small but usable office suite for your GUI (spreadsheet, database, etc etc..) .. Games are always fun...maybe create a language of somesort to program for your GUI

Patz QuickBASIC Creations · Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:01 pm

oh: it can't hold much text on screen: it's screen 0
how do you get a window to appear w/o changing the whole bg in other screen modes?

Z!re · Post by **Z!re** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:41 pm

You need to code more.
I'm not trying to sound mean, but it sounds like you dont even know the basics of GUI making.

Textbased UI's are usually refered to as CUI or TUI.. Consol UI/Text UI

With CUI being the more common, yet rare.

The background is always destroyed when you draw a window over it.
Windows, and other GUI's solve this by storing the parts overdrawn by the window in memory, putting them back when the window is moved or closed.

It's advanced stuff.

{Nathan} · Post by **{Nathan}** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:24 pm

Make it graphical... and it would be awsome if you could put linux or windows support on it... dos support...

INTERNET!!!

Patz QuickBASIC Creations · Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:10 pm

Z!re: In screen mode 9, when you try to make a text-based window, the whole background changes to gray - which is what I want to avoid.

{Nathan} · Post by **{Nathan}** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:32 pm

I just got an idea you can fool around with: screen 12 and viewprint.

The Walrus · Post by **The Walrus** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:23 am

I wrote an article on that subject for QB Express #10. You can read it here:

http://www.jacobpalm.dk/articles.php?lng=en&pg=566

There's also some tips here you might find useful:

http://www.jacobpalm.dk/articles.php?lng=en&pg=565

Hope this helps