MicroOS

[Nahuel]

Aww.

HAH

Funny thread.

mkay.. bye.

Keep up the good work Justin.

[sandman]

Okay, well let's get back on track here.

I have some suggestions:

When you press Start, instead of the window appearing in the middle of the screen, why not have it appear above the start button like in Windows?

Also, the desktop buttons are really wide and obtrusive; you should look into using transparent PNGs and checking with GUIGetMsg() from there. Maybe even use ashley's icons?

[nooby]

And nooby, you shouldn't even be talking.

I've been here longer than you have, I just don't post pointless posts like you do. I have 26 posts and that doesn't mean anything. You registered 20-June 07.. Ive been here for just under a year, you shouldn't be the one talking.

Raped? ok

[JustinReno]

Ok, there will be another update tommorow. The next feature is if no background is selected, it will randomly select from two backgrounds(Not many, it increased the exe size too much) And any more suggestions for MicroOS?

[sandman]

@Justin:

I have some suggestions:

When you press Start, instead of the window appearing in the middle of the screen, why not have it appear above the start button like in Windows?

Also, the desktop buttons are really wide and obtrusive; you should look into using transparent PNGs and checking with GUIGetMsg() from there. Maybe even use ashley's icons?

@nooby: I totally agree.. our post counts don't mean anything. Probably at least 1/4 of my posts are unhelpful.. I will try to remedy that

Edited November 11, 2007 by sandman

[JustinReno]

Oh, cool! Thanks, I'll look into it.

Edit: I was experimenting with the start menu appearing over the start menu button, but that would depend on everyones resolution, but I'll try to figure it out.

And I'll look into transparent icons. Thanks.

Edited November 11, 2007 by JustinReno

[Generator]

Oh, cool! Thanks, I'll look into it.

Edit: I was experimenting with the start menu appearing over the start menu button, but that would depend on everyones resolution, but I'll try to figure it out.

And I'll look into transparent icons. Thanks.

There's always a work around..use ControlGetPos() then create the menu

Edit: Url to Ashley's Shell?

Edited November 11, 2007 by Generator

[JustinReno]

That would have been way easier than what I was doing, I got it correct. I used number() to subtract the start menu height from the desktop height, then subtracted the start button height, but controlgetpos() works good too.

Edit: I completely forgot how to make the buttons transparent, any help? I just looked through the help file and I'm still looking.

Edit Again: I searched and couldn't find an easy way to implement the transparent buttons. I know Ashley's shell has some, but I'm not sure how.

Edit Again Again: YES, I have a saved version of Ashley's source with the transparent icons, now let me see...

Edit Again Again Again: It didn't work.. hmmm

Edited November 11, 2007 by JustinReno

[NELyon]

Ok, finally got Wine installed and working so i took a look.

Overall, not bad, except i couldn't test the web browser, and the background looked severely messed up (random lines and pixels were inverted)

Still, Good Job.

[JustinReno]

Probably, do you have a Tempdir?

[NELyon]

Probably, do you have a Tempdir?

???

[JustinReno]

Do you have a temp directory?

[NELyon]

No i do not. I have not set up wine to use a windows-like directory structure.

[JustinReno]

Then none of the icons, background images, and the help file will show.

Edited November 11, 2007 by JustinReno

[NELyon]

All of the icons and the background image show. i just said the background image is distorted a little bit.

And the helpfile uses the shell.explorer.2 Object, and linux doesn't natively support those objects. that's why that wouldn't work.

[JustinReno]

Oh, ok, the picture resizing for the control isn't the best, but isn't a very big priority to the project. Anyone know how to make transparent icons?

[sandman]

I meant using Ashley's icons, not the shell.

[JustinReno]

I know that, I was trying to use the source to figure out how to make the transparent icons.

[JustinReno]

I've been here longer than you have, I just don't post pointless posts like you do. I have 26 posts and that doesn't mean anything. You registered 20-June 07.. Ive been here for just under a year, you shouldn't be the one talking.

Raped? ok

Oooh, you've been here for a year, big whoop.

And MicroOS won't be updated for a while.

[ashley]

Justin u think that ur the best at everything. Well i have news for you ur NOT!!!

And if u want transparent icons look for my script its in the shell comp topic somewere