Anyways, your project is amazing.
You are super organized, I love the UI and I hope it gets even better.

Keep doing this amazing work, you're amazing :)

josueart wrote:

Anyways, your project is amazing.
You are super organized, I love the UI and I hope it gets even better.

Keep doing this amazing work, you're amazing :)

Thank you!

This is definitely not me procrastinating! It totally is.

I made a logo for ARPOS, which just so happens to be a fish. (Reference to The Chosen)
View it here:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/880471004/

Since there's going to be some upcoming maintenance, I'm planning to download the project to my computer and work on it offline.

I added the ability to close windows, which deletes it from the WM: Windows list.
And that concludes work on the window status. (except minimize, but that is related to the taskbar ig?)

Also, big thanks to eoeoeoeoeoeoeoeoe for giving feedback and helping me with all the PTE++ issues.
You should go send this person a comment that contains no e's


I also created a taskbar with a separate list. It currently does nothing except keep track of the number of windows.

However, I plan to add more functionality to it, such as:
Useful functions:

• detect when the mouse is hovering/clicking the icon
  
• re-open minimized windows
  
• preview a window (have a mini version appear)
  
• close the window from the preview (maybe)
  

Aesthetics:

• increase size of the icon and change color when hovering
  
• different icons for each window/app
  

AAAAAAA

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Priority

• diagonal resizing
  
• detect when the mouse is hovering the icon
  
• detect when the mouse is clicking the icon
  
• re-open minimized windows through the taskbar
  

Medium Priority

• preview a window (have a mini version appear)
  
• close the window from the preview (maybe)
  
• increase size of the icon and change color when hovering
  

Low Priority

• context menu/right-click menu thingy
  
• different icons for each app
  
• increase performance by not rendering windows that are underneath bigger windows
  

No priority

• Credit 400,000 more people in the “Notes and Credits” section.
  

when this sprite clicked
say [I feel good to be alive]
die :: motion

A few days ago, I added mouse detection for the taskbar and tried to implement icon detection. However, it didn't work.

Going through my code today, I discovered that I had forgotten about the order of items in my list (meaning that I was using the wrong values) and that the index of a taskbar icon could be different from window ID if windows were deleted.

After fixing most of the bugs, it detects when a mouse is hovering over an icon by checking whether the distance to its center is less than or equal to its radius.
However, it still doesn't find the window ID (id connecting the icon to the window) properly, because it displays as a blank value, so I'll have to look at that again when I have time.

Edit: It appears that the window ID is blank?? I added something that set it when a window was defined but idk, a bit tired so I'll fix it later.

eoeoeoeoeoeoeoeoe wrote:

No priority

• Credit 400,000 more people in the “Notes and Credits” section.
  

Facts

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2D4eter wrote:

eoeoeoeoeoeoeoeoe wrote:

No priority

• Credit 400,000 more people in the “Notes and Credits” section.
  

Facts

XD

I don't mind crediting that many people…but it won't fit in one post, that's for sure
(LET'S START A NEW THREAD JUST FOR CREDITS)

After more sniffing around, I have determined that the cause of the bug to be located in the “render taskbar” function. Probably has something to do with overwriting the data. I'm going to take a closer look at that thing.

(oh the tribulations of making such a big project, even with emojification it still feels disorganized)

Edit:
It's always the little things…
It turned out that the cause of the problem was that I had stuck

change [tmp_i v] by (1)

in the middle of the code instead of at the top of the loop, where it should be. (facepalm)

I named my window manager IcthusWM. (There are so many references in that name XD)
In addition, I made a new thumbnail for the window manager and changed the colors to be The Chosen themed.

Of course, the actual OS will still be named "A Random Pen (fake) OS“; I just like having a name for each of the ”modules" for lack of a better name

Fish!!!

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say [I feel good to be alive]
die :: motion

To-Do List

Highest Priority

• Credit as many people as possible
  
• Use scratcchattach and scratchconnect to install wifi and internet drivers ( that would be really really cool! )
  
• Build web apps ( also i'm making my second browser and my goal is to be able to play a simple scratch game eg cloud pong )
  

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2D4eter wrote:

To-Do List

Highest Priority

• Credit as many people as possible
  
• Use scratcchattach and scratchconnect to install wifi and internet drivers ( that would be really really cool! )
  
• Build web apps ( also i'm making my second browser and my goal is to be able to play a simple scratch game eg cloud pong )
  

Install wifi?

when this sprite clicked
say [I feel good to be alive]
die :: motion

I refactored the Screen: Update function by separating it into two blocks: the original update block and a second one, which is used inside the original. The second block is Screen: Update: windows, which is in charge of rendering the windows. This was mainly for organization.

Speaking of big blocks of code that I need to refactor, I need to work on that behemoth of a function—Input: mouse functions T-T time to add it to the To Do list.


Remember how I said in update 1.4.3 that the window status updates were finished???welp I was wrong

Instead of making it so that only one window could be fullscreened at a time, I made it so that there could be multiple (although having multiple fullscreen windows is currently impossible unless you want to go inside the code yourself).

Before, it checked if the window on the top layer was fullscreen and only rendered that one. Now it renders all the layers, in case the fullscreen window actually has smaller windows above it.

For performance, I will probably add something that stops non-fullscreen windows that are under fullscreen windows from rendering.ugh more things to add to the to do list XD

We've all seen that annoying bug when you resize the window vertically, with a little line near the bottom right corner.
Well, I fixed it now by adding a variable for the iterator, and when the value is greater than the unrounded value of (y1 - y2)/pen size, the script stops.

Yay!

Lesss goooo

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say [I feel good to be alive]
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I was going to start working on diagonal resizing, but I discovered the mess known as “Input: Check Windows” so I guess refactoring is now high-priority T-T
After I finished working on that function I hoped I'd never have to look at it again…but here I am.