game-editor.com

Hello!

Now I've worked with a project that
acts like an OS.

The program is not even close to complete,
but few very important features have been made.

Current features (in demo):

• Window opening, moving & closing
• Functioning drop down menus
• Set needed double click speed
• Folder creation, moving, renaming & removing
• Grid snap icons on/off
• Inactive windows are transparent
• Sideways scrollable taskbar
• Wallpaper added
• System clock added
• Custom text input function with enabled repeat
• Possibility to choose a wallpaper from a list
• Fixed window system a little, now you can click also on the white part of window for making it active

New features (not in current demo, will be in next one):

• Bmp to Bm (lclOS' image file) -converter (currently for 640 x 480 -bitmaps only, have to make it work with any image size)

Currently under work:

• Selecting & opening multiple objects

To do:

• Folder exploring like in all OS's

Try clicking with right and left mouse button,
there is quite much things you can do so far.

I will publish the source when this is ready and
I have made the code as clear as possible.

Go and check it out and give me feedback & ideas!

DOWNLOAD VERSION 3:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38266203/GE/lclOS_v3.zip


Thanks to skydereign and Game A Gogo for helping me with this.

Looks great! Will window's be re-size-able?
Also I found a bug, icons will not become unselected if you roll off them while with the selection D:

Game A Gogo wrote:Looks great! Will window's be re-size-able?
Also I found a bug, icons will not become unselected if you roll off them while with the selection D:

Thanks!
I am not sure about making them re-sizeable, it will make all so complicated..
But it still is an option!
I haven't worked with selecting very much yet, so it will be fixed when I really start the job with selecting.

Thanks for feedback, it helps me to continue this.

I don't believe that anyone can guess how hard it was actually make those windows work and their contents positions to be right.. That's the reason the re-sizeable windows make so much work; I should make all the windows contents move by the size of the window.. But I can try it, because it'd be so cool!

I tried my hand at an "os" that would read re-sizable windows from bitmap files. You could focus/unfocused and when you closed it continuously sized until disappeared ... GE couldn't handle it though.
I'm really surprised by how stable this is

This... is... AWESOME!

Thank you guys!
But this is just the beginning, I am going to make the ability of really
exploring folders and of course, save the state of your system (all folders and files) + much more!

Excellent Job.
I can see all the hard work and coding put into this.

+Point

JamesLeonardo32 wrote:Excellent Job.
I can see all the hard work and coding put into this.

+Point

Thanks!

Demo updated!

This is great! nice improvement.

And better want to get rid of that bug when you have a window unfocused and you hover over the text/input box.
Here's a quick way how: Disable any event you use to make the window change transparency on the text and input boxes. This should work for pretty much any scenario.

Game A Gogo wrote:This is great! nice improvement.

And better want to get rid of that bug when you have a window unfocused and you hover over the text/input box.
Here's a quick way how: Disable any event you use to make the window change transparency on the text and input boxes. This should work for pretty much any scenario.

Thanks!
Got to try that.

I have an idea:
Make in it GE Games support
So:Can we open with it Game Editor games

Plus Point Man. Great job!!!

SuperSonic wrote:Plus Point Man. Great job!!!

Thank you!

tzoli wrote:I have an idea:
Make in it GE Games support
So:Can we open with it Game Editor games

I could do that with full screen games.
But I don't want to open window games, because it would
look bad.. You know, the real OS would be seen.
But as I said, yes for full screen games.
I had thought of this also.

Excellent! You'll need better wallpaper (jk)

The folder thing is brilliant. I love the renaming option. I can see that my Windows7 demo sux

+1 for good job