Need some tutorial

einsteinjunior · Post by **einsteinjunior** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:05 pm

I am currently designing an operating system and i am stuck at two points:

-The PS/2 mouse.I do not want to use DOS int 13 v to use it since i will be in PMODE and will not like to add a virtual 8086 monitor at the moment.Documentation on the subject is so controversial.I will need one that is accurate.

-Tutorials on how to program a graphical user interface.Just one found at the moment.

Thanks to all.

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:09 pm

How far in your kernel are you?

How long have you been working on it?
(some points of interest)

-JL

gmoney · Post by **gmoney** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:41 pm

goto osdever.net then browse their homebrew os under links and x86. look for an os called pirat 0s. its not a tut. but the source code could help you out.

OrOS · Post by **OrOS** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:55 pm

Better yet,
http://osdever.net/links/index.php?acti ... at&catid=2

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:58 am

See here: http://bos.asmhackers.net/docs/mouse/
And for GUI see "My Windows Manager Demo" here: http://alexfru.narod.ru/

einsteinjunior · Post by **einsteinjunior** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:00 am

Thanks Dex for the help.
I appreciate.But please can you help me with a TUTORIAL on how to write a window manager?
Thanks.

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:54 am

http://www.osdever.net/tutorials/pdf/GUI_tut.pdf

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:53 am

Here's is the problem, most OS dev's start out with lots of enthusiasm, as they move on to each stage of development, more and more drop out and its also at this early stage when they write tuts.
By the time they come to things like GUI's, they have little enthusiasm for writing tuts.
So in short, there just is not any good tut's available, so if you want to jump right into window management, start at the beginning and with the basic's, start with changing graphic modes, fill buffers and drawing boxs, lines etc.
You also need to design your gui to suit you over all OS design, eg: as my OS is based on the Xbox, it would not work well with a GUI designed for a multi-tasking desktop OS.