I will need some help

einsteinjunior · Post by **einsteinjunior** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:07 am

Hi to all,
I am a bomb as far as drawing is concerned.
I will need someone to help me design the GUI of my OS.
Any help is welcome.
Thanks to all.

jzgriffin · Post by **jzgriffin** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:17 am

Clearly you are a James T. Klik. However, James as an OS to be implementing a GUI on. Do you yet have a working base? GDT, IDT, IRQs, possibly paging, basic VBE or VESA driver? You can't start at the top and work your way down. Unless you're only designing the GUI now, keeping fake screenshots as PSD files in a folder, and then writing the OS.

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:12 pm

Yes, getting the basics first is important: Especially a memory manager.

-JL

einsteinjunior · Post by **einsteinjunior** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:24 am

You guys do not understand,

I do have (and always has had) an OS only with console.
My design is quite well modular and i added support for GUI.
But the problem now is that i do not know how to draw and i will need some help in my GUI design.

AJ · Post by AJ » Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:38 am

Hi,

When I get to my GUI, I will have exactly the same problem. My suggestion would be to trawl through a few game programming sites such as http://www.gamedev.net, which will have a few suggestions. For example, the principles used in creating a menu UI in DirectX will probably be similar to those used in your GUI creation, even if the functions calls exported by your window manager have different names.

Cheers,
Adam

einsteinjunior · Post by **einsteinjunior** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:02 am

What i need now is drawings for my OS.
Not how to design my gui.All of the rest is functionning quite allright.
I tested with some odd drawings i did for button controls ,edit controls and so on,but i want some clean and nice drawings done for me.

JamesM · Post by **JamesM** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:03 am

einsteinjunior wrote:What i need now is drawings for my OS.
Not how to design my gui.All of the rest is functionning quite allright.
I tested with some odd drawings i did for button controls ,edit controls and so on,but i want some clean and nice drawings done for me.

In which case you will probably have to pay someone to do them. I suggest looking in the gamedev.net forums and advertising there.

einsteinjunior · Post by **einsteinjunior** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:38 am

Thanks for the hint but i am poor:)

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:18 am

then make your own

who cares about whether something's crapart anyway.

einsteinjunior · Post by **einsteinjunior** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:22 am

Yes,
But i want it to look very nice.
Its to impress my girlfriend....hehehe
Just need someone to help.

JamesM · Post by **JamesM** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:33 am

Well try the gamedev.net forums - maybe you can give a sob story and guilt someone into helping you

OR... you could buy her flowers...

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:33 am

einsteinjunior wrote:Its to impress my girlfriend....hehehe

IMO its more impressive if its entirely your own work

AJ · Post by AJ » Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:57 am

http://alexking.org/dev/ASCII_UI_controls.txt

OR... you could buy her flowers...

Bad Idea (tm) - she's bound to think you're feeling guilty about something

Cheers,
Adam

Dex · Post by **Dex** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:13 am

You can write a simple skin function, for your GUI etc.
Than by changing the skin, so will the look of your GUI be changed, this mean you can get someone to do better skins latter.
Example: skin1 and skin2 gives me a brower window and bottom bar for my OS, see images.

z180 · Post by **z180** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:27 pm

before adding a gui, you best have to go through some decision
process.Best you look at other systems and design the inner
working (bitmap,window moving,text drawing)and interface to user programs.I think that skinning and use of non rectangular windows
should be added in a later stage.You also should decide which parts
of your gui should run in user/kernel mode and what all should your
gui implement and which stuff you could let your program or a
lib do.also you can look on the web for gui examples in
different complication stages.

I will also sometime add a gui to my system my gui will look like
GEM and unix/linux window managers but will have an different interface and will draw in a kernel framebuffer device driver and use some ipc code (fifos/messages) to interface to a library linked to programs