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Hey, im new to this scene, but I was wondering if you guys, being pro's at this kinda thing, think this is a good idea:

Since I program flash and a little PHP, I had and Idea to..well, encapsulate everything. What I mean is, in flash, when you address something, its like this "function5.openconnection", and I wanted to apply this to my operating system, which is still in the interface and design stages.

BTW, since i'm programming this in C, what should I base this on? DOS? Unix? Also, the applications are COFF (Common Object Format..File) so I want to know if apps can only be developed in C, I kinda need/want it to be programmable in many languages.

Tell me what ya think, and thank you very much.

andrew wrote:Since I program flash and a little PHP, I had and Idea to..well, encapsulate everything. What I mean is, in flash, when you address something, its like this "function5.openconnection", and I wanted to apply this to my operating system, which is still in the interface and design stages.

I'm afraid I don't know exactly what aspect of flash you are giving an example of here...

andrew wrote:BTW, since i'm programming this in C, what should I base this on? DOS? Unix?

You need to think about why you are creating an OS. If it just to copy the functionality of another OS, maybe you don't need to. On the oher hand, if you have your own ideas, I would say not to get bogged down trying to conform to anyone's previous work.

andrew wrote:Also, the applications are COFF (Common Object Format..File) so I want to know if apps can only be developed in C, I kinda need/want it to be programmable in many languages.

Well, obviously, if you want other languages to be available to your OS, then you either need to port or write the tools.

Ok, my mistake for not being clear:

Forget about the flash right now, I'm trying to create a system where everything is within it's own category...business programs go into an office folder...blah blah blah...

But I dont want to follow mac and microsoft's route, I'd like to figure out a new, but still easy, way to do things...but I cant, so I'm open to suggestions..

Thanks