Example

Gui Designer 1.2

SP4CEBAR 2022-07-25 10:17 (Edited)

click here to read about the new features in this version

Drag to define zones
There's not much else at the moment

You may be able to spot the effects of my screen cruncher

The plan is to have three menus in this GUI:

• 1. GUI MENU
  • VIEW: NUMBERS/BOXES
  • DRAG: DEFINE/EDIT THE ZONE OF THE SELECTED ELEMENT
  • buttons
    1. UNDO
    2. REDO
    3. MENU SELECTOR (SLIDER)
    4. ELEMENT SELECTOR (SLIDER)
    5. FULLSCREEN (TAP TO EXIT)
    6. MODE
• 2. FILE MENU
  • VIEW: FILES (RASTER ON TO VIEW ALL 16), SELECTOR INDICATOR
  • buttons
    1. SAVE
    2. LOAD
    3. ROM ENTRY SELECTOR (SLIDER)
    4. MENU SELECTOR
    5. LOAD BG
    6. MODE
• 3. BG LOAD MENU ('5. SET BG)
  • VIEW: BG
  • DRAG: CROP BG
  • buttons:
    1. POSITION X SELECTOR
    2. POSITION Y SELECTOR
    3. MODE

successor: why do we need a tool, can't it just be smarter

predecessor: too complicated file system

SP4CEBAR 2022-07-28 09:48 (Edited)

V0.2

• Number scrollers work
• full-screen button works

SP4CEBAR 2022-07-28 09:52 (Edited)

I want to share these subprograms which make a number display out of sprites:
Note: my 10 number characters start at character 164 and take one character each

SUB SDIGIT(S,X,Y,N)
  N2=164+N MOD 10
  SPRITE S,X,Y,N2
  SPRITE S SIZE 0
END SUB

SUB SNUM(S,X,Y,N,L,T,SP)
  'N1=INT(N)
  N1=INT(ABS(N))
  X1=X+L*SP
  FOR I=0 TO L
    CALL SDIGIT(S+I,X1-SP*I,Y,N1)
    N1=N1\10
    IF T AND N1=0 THEN
      EXIT
    END IF
  NEXT I
END SUB

The parameters of SNUM are:

• lowest sprite ID (the right-most digit),
• sprite X,
• sprite Y,
• number,
• length (digits) (counts from zero),
• type: if zero, 293 looks like 000293 otherwise it's " 293",
• spacing (8 is normal, but 7 works well too)

SP4CEBAR 2022-07-28 10:09

And... the code is a mess again... even though its fundamentals are great

SP4CEBAR 2022-07-29 15:29 (Edited)

V0.3

• Scrollers are labeled with sprite-based floating text
• The touch map is generated correctly now
• The preview buttons are now drawn correctly when they are one cell wide (or just one cell)
• the GUI element counter increments every time you draw a button, this is to optimize the workflow

Future features:

• add BG loading so you can see where the buttons in your visual BG are supposed to be
• And file saving and loading

SP4CEBAR 2022-07-30 10:59 (Edited)

V1 Beta!

• added three menus (toggled with the right-most button)
• added file loading and saving (with the two buttons on the left)
• added scrollers for each menu (touch them to view what they are for)

these are the menus and their scrollers:

0. GUI
   • Menu (0 to 255) I forgot, writing multiple menus isn't supported yet...
   • Gui element (0 to 255)
1. Files
   • GUI file (0 to 15) to load and save, this is the main file
   • BG file (0 to 15) to load so you can draw over it
2. Background
   • X offset (0 to 255) I should extend these
   • Y offset (0 to 255) they aren't capped off, so you could scroll into the next files

SP4CEBAR 2022-08-01 15:51 (Edited)

V1.1

• BG files should be loaded from a DISK, that works now (it's just the BG, not the characters because that's an awful lot of work)
• made the code even messier
• made the MENU switch button look nice, with its proper icons

SP4CEBAR 2022-08-01 19:24

V1.2

• it works! I successfully wrote a GUI file for my upcoming piano roll music studio
• code is still messy