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fbTUI: Re: fbTUI

Sat, 31 May 2008 20:50:15 +0000

Hi man. Been while since last time heard of you.
Been quiet at a-w.com. We mostly talk at basicprogramming.org.

Your tui sounds interesting. Im in need of one soon ;)
See link for more http://forum.basicprogramming.org/index.php?topic=242.0

E.K.Virtanen

fbTUI: fbTUI

Fri, 30 May 2008 18:55:23 +0000

Hey Folks,

Still no internet connect yet I'm afraid. Hopefully, soon.

However, I haven't been just laying around. :) While working on a couple of programs, I decided that I needed an easy to use gui system for FB. Since there really isn't one (that I know of) that is written in pure FB, I decided to write my own. Right now I have the main desk object and menu object working. The desk object is the core gui object that is the container for the menu and window objects. The window object is a container for the different control objects such as a textbox, label, button, etc. The syntax is quite easy to use. For example:

sub MessageHandler (objID as integer, e as EVENT)

'handle message

end sub

dim mydesk as desk = desk([options])

CreatMenu [options]
AddNewMenuItem [options]
…
desk.menu.ShowMenu
desk.ProcessMessage = @MessageHandler
desk.ShowDesk
desk.Run

The run command enters into the gui message loop. The MessageHandler sub is a user defined sub that you would use to handle any messages generated by the system. The objID is the id of the object you used when you created the object and the e as EVENT is the FB ScreenEvent record that is passed from the desk message loop. You pass the address of your message handler to the desk ProcessMessage before you run the desk object.

Next time I can get online I'll post some screen shots.

PITA: PITA

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:04:21 +0000

http://python-forum.org/py/viewtopic.php?t=2342

Inform 7: Inform 7

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:00:37 +0000

If you want to write IF you should check out Inform 7. Instead of a programming language you use English-like commands to write the story. Very cool indeed.

WinFrotz plays the Inform 7 files which can be found on the IF archive under emulators. See the link in the Games page.

Font Maker: Font Maker

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:58:24 +0000

Here is a little preview screenshot of a Font Editor I am making in FB. You be able to create a custom character set, export it as a data array and use it in your program:

http://file-pasta.com/f/1430.png