Work in Progress

GUI Designer - Foundation

SP4CEBAR 2022-07-09 23:52 (Edited)

• Type DOS commands to navigate the files
• Type "GUI" and hit enter to open the GUI

The GUI is loaded from my Tree Data Structure which allows me to have many files stored in one data block

To edit the GUI, open the program source code, look for DATA and edit the MAP and the parameters (there are comments with labels)

• A menu is a group of all GUI elements
• The map is like an NX map except it stores only a GUI element ID on each cell
• An element is anything from my GUI element collection that can be called by the map
• A display is an element that can't be called by the map, and can only be called by an element, a counter is a display too (the name "display" is outdated)
• A variable file is full of variables
• A link file is full of links to link displays to the variables of elements
• A call file is full of links to call displays from an element

This is the folder structure:
'- ROOT
'  - GLOBAL VARIABLES
'  - MENUS
'    - MENU 0
'      - F MENU DATA
'      - F MAP
'      - F BINARY VARIABLES (32 BYTES (FLEXIBLE: STARTS AT ELEMENT 0, GROWS WHEN E ADDED)
'      - ELEMENT DATA
'        - ELEMENT 0
'          - F ELEMENT DATA
'          - F VARIABLES
'          - F CALLS
'      - DISPLAYS
'        - DISPLAY 0
'          - F DISPLAY DATA
'          - F VARIABLES
'          - F LINKS

I spent way too many hours on this, I need a break
I greatly underestimated how much time it would take

sucessors:

• simple reliable fixed file system
• why do we need a tool, can't it just be smarter
• 13 lines of code was all it took

SP4CEBAR 2022-07-12 12:11

I added some new commands, and I changed some commands to make them easier:

• GUI RUN, run the GUI
• GUI MAP n, draw to edit the GUI map (can be called from anywhere)
• GUI MAP PAR, navigate to an element file (under C:\1\0\3) before typing it, draw to set the size parameters of that element

Commands to be added:

• GUI PAR, change any GUI parameter and show a list of available parameters and what they are labeled as and what value they currently have
• GUI NEW, new GUI element or display

SP4CEBAR 2022-07-12 12:12

I kind of lost motivation to work on this project, more information here