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[Lyqyd]

That tweet would indicate the exact opposite.

[Dog]

ItsRodrick, on 28 May 2015 - 12:23 AM, said:

Seems IT IS CC? Tweet

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I don't see how that tweet infers that the secret project is related to CC.

EDIT: 'd

Edited by Dog, 28 May 2015 - 12:34 AM.

[Bomb Bloke]

I think Rodrick is under the impression that ComputerCraftEdu is the "secret project" we've been discussing here. Really that's something different.

[Dragon53535]

Bomb Bloke, on 25 May 2015 - 07:05 AM, said:

(Speaking of which, the forums over there re-e-a-a-ally need some attention.)

If you mean attention as in admin/mod attention, yeah. The entire forum is filled with bots. I was actually hoping for nice redirection creations...

[ItsRodrick]

Oh, fine... I got a bit confused xD

[3d6]

I wonder if this new game will have http support?

Assuming this isn't bring made for us, we can probably synchronize things across the two games like we do servers today!

[Pyuu]

If this includes unicode I'mma be so happy!
However, this kind of system being implemented in CC would probably break most strings unless included in some separate API.

[HDeffo]

Mayushii, on 29 May 2015 - 02:13 PM, said:

If this includes unicode I'mma be so happy!
However, this kind of system being implemented in CC would probably break most strings unless included in some separate API.

(the following is all if it turns out to be an update to CC)

From Dan's later posts it appears to be more of a definable character maps API than a true unicode support. Either way I would assume he is going to try to maintain at least some compatibility with programs written before this eventual update. Updates "usually" try to be polite to older versions.

[ebernerd]

"Try to be"

Not always.

And I'm so hyped. Whatever it is, tell us NOW. xD

[oeed]

So in light of this I got all inspired, ended up talking to awsumben13 (creator of Nova) and now we're planning to make a whole new GUI framework, and then an OS based on it.

Basically, we're waiting for Dan to release it, as until then it's rather difficult naturally. It's all very shiny and fancy, it will make the best of both worlds between the speed of Nova and the simplicity of Bedrock/OneOS. If you're so inclined, it's on GitHub here: https://github.com/oeed/Silica/

Anyway, enough banging on. The main point of this post is just to illustrate what could be possible if/when Dan adds this. These mockups are just in Photoshop, not actual screenshots obviously. I've based the screen size based on the number of pixels on the screen at the moment (i.e. the dot of the i is one pixel), but it could be different.



The text here is pretty iffy. We're adding bezier path drawing, so we'll be making vector fonts (meaning scaling ), so we'll spend lots of time making sure they don't look crap.

Edited by oeed, 27 June 2015 - 06:25 AM.

[SquidDev]

oeed, on 06 June 2015 - 02:20 AM, said:

-snip-

Whoah, that does look cool - though I'm not sure about rounded corners. I must say I hadn't thought about text rendering much - I guess I better look into my Font API again. I can see something fun with Comic Sans...

[TheOddByte]

oeed, on 06 June 2015 - 02:20 AM, said:

...

That looks amazing, the text looks kind of weird, especially the "e" in "Menu", because it's just as big as the "M".

[Bomb Bloke]

TheOddByte, on 06 June 2015 - 10:18 AM, said:

That looks amazing, the text looks kind of weird, especially the "e" in "Menu", because it's just as big as the "M".

Indeed. Either make the other lower-case characters in that set at least four pixels tall, or if you really don't want to do that, squash the "e" down flat so it's four pixels tall.

For what it's worth, once upon a time I drew up a 3x5px set, covering chars 0 to 127. Dunno if you've any interest in such a thing, but if you wanted it just let me know the format.

[oeed]

SquidDev, on 06 June 2015 - 09:47 AM, said:

Whoah, that does look cool - though I'm not sure about rounded corners. I must say I hadn't thought about text rendering much - I guess I better look into my Font API again. I can see something fun with Comic Sans...

What is it about the rounded corners? I'm interested to know.

The biggest reason I'm using them really is just the change from the regular blocks we've been used to.

Bomb Bloke, on 06 June 2015 - 10:55 AM, said:

TheOddByte, on 06 June 2015 - 10:18 AM, said:

That looks amazing, the text looks kind of weird, especially the "e" in "Menu", because it's just as big as the "M".

Indeed. Either make the other lower-case characters in that set at least four pixels tall, or if you really don't want to do that, squash the "e" down flat so it's four pixels tall.

For what it's worth, once upon a time I drew up a 3x5px set, covering chars 0 to 127. Dunno if you've any interest in such a thing, but if you wanted it just let me know the format.

Yeah, text is something we're going to have to sus out.

If you've got that set it would certainly be useful!

[SquidDev]

oeed, on 06 June 2015 - 02:46 PM, said:

SquidDev, on 06 June 2015 - 09:47 AM, said:

Whoah, that does look cool - though I'm not sure about rounded corners. I must say I hadn't thought about text rendering much - I guess I better look into my Font API again. I can see something fun with Comic Sans...

What is it about the rounded corners? I'm interested to know.

Most of it looks fine, the dropdown/combo-box doesn't look great with it, but the other controls do work with it. I guess we have Microsoft to blame for the no-rounded corners style .

[CrazedProgrammer]

SquidDev, on 06 June 2015 - 02:51 PM, said:

oeed, on 06 June 2015 - 02:46 PM, said:

SquidDev, on 06 June 2015 - 09:47 AM, said:

Whoah, that does look cool - though I'm not sure about rounded corners. I must say I hadn't thought about text rendering much - I guess I better look into my Font API again. I can see something fun with Comic Sans...

What is it about the rounded corners? I'm interested to know.

Most of it looks fine, the dropdown/combo-box doesn't look great with it, but the other controls do work with it. I guess we have Microsoft to blame for the no-rounded corners style .

I like the non-rounded corner style more.
Maybe because I like rectangles

[Creator]

CrazedProgrammer, on 06 June 2015 - 03:37 PM, said:

SquidDev, on 06 June 2015 - 02:51 PM, said:

oeed, on 06 June 2015 - 02:46 PM, said:

SquidDev, on 06 June 2015 - 09:47 AM, said:

Whoah, that does look cool - though I'm not sure about rounded corners. I must say I hadn't thought about text rendering much - I guess I better look into my Font API again. I can see something fun with Comic Sans...

What is it about the rounded corners? I'm interested to know.

Most of it looks fine, the dropdown/combo-box doesn't look great with it, but the other controls do work with it. I guess we have Microsoft to blame for the no-rounded corners style .

I like the non-rounded corner style more.
Maybe because I like rectangles

Well, maybe there can be an option in the configs.

PS: 100th post in this topic

[Bomb Bloke]

oeed, on 06 June 2015 - 02:46 PM, said:

If you've got that set it would certainly be useful!

Edited by Bomb Bloke, 10 February 2016 - 11:22 PM.

[oeed]

Bomb Bloke, on 07 June 2015 - 01:18 AM, said:

oeed, on 06 June 2015 - 02:46 PM, said:

If you've got that set it would certainly be useful!

Cheers

[MKlegoman357]

Keep in mind that if we will be able to manipulate each pixel individually, we will be able to use non-monospaced characters.