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Hi,
Despite the advice of every tutorial ever written (and common sence) I'm gonna start putting a GUI on my _simple_ (a boot loader with prompt) kernel. PLEASE don't tell me about how it's such a bad idea. It's not that I don't know it is, It's just that I'm an idiot.

Well now that we're past that little self-flaming session here's my issue:

How do I start my GUI? My kernel has absolutely no librarys (libc or graphics) so I need it to be in x86 assembly. Completely independant. Any tutorials, code or other forms of help would be greatly appreciated.

THANKS A WHOLE BUNCH!

Don't know if you've already seen this, but there's a quite good tutorial on GUI development at osdever.net. The URL is http://osdever.net/tutorials/GUI_tut.php?the_id=62

Really great tutorial, but it's for a C/C++ interface. It doesn't have any assembly GUI stuff.

But thanks anyway!

With all due respect, if you're going to be stupid you have to be intelligent about it.

It doesn't matter that it's for C/C++, you can use the ideas as a basis to write in ASM.

Failing that, just rip Menuet OS off.

--Jamethiel

*I don't rip off code*

On an alternate note, how could I impliment a libc so I could use that C/C++ tutorial?

I don't know how complex is ur kernel. If u r interested for implementing libc completely it is not ok.you may check alexie.a.frunge's os for libc. he uses TC. You may check FD-32(freedos-32) too. But regarding Kernel In Assembly Menuet-os and DS-OS are best in my knowledge(my knowledge is limited.). You may also search for Pico-dos by L.Pascal in ASM similar to your kernel(Probably).

You won't need a complete libc to follow that tutorial. All you need is working memory management and a function to switch video modes.