Under development - lcl OS! (3rd demo!)

[lcl]

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.

[Game A Gogo]

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:

[lcl]

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!

[Game A Gogo]

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

[MrJolteon]

This... is... AWESOME!

[lcl]

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!

[JamesLeonardo32]

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

+Point

[lcl]

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

+Point

Thanks!

[lcl]

Demo updated!

[Game A Gogo]

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.

[lcl]

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.

[tzoli]

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

[SuperSonic]

Plus Point Man. Great job!!!

[lcl]

Plus Point Man. Great job!!!

Thank you!

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.

[Camper1995]

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