51 replies to this topic

[ETHANATOR360]

wow im using this in my OS thats amazing,and how lond did the ascii art take?

[inventor2514]

The ASCII art took about five minutes, but the actual coding was fairly time consuming.

[ETHANATOR360]

i cant find where the code is to change what it does when you hit the x in the corner

[inventor2514]

At lines 349-351, it detects that cancel was "clicked" and ends the main program loop. At lines 639-End, it deletes the temporary copy file and clears the screen.

[ETHANATOR360]

thanks, you should take this further in to a full OS it could be like windows in a way />

[inventor2514]

I've been thinking about that, but I'm still figuring out co-routines for multitasking.

[ETHANATOR360]

can you modify it so it opens to a differnt directory then the main one?

[inventor2514]

ETHANATOR360, on 16 July 2012 - 06:56 PM, said:

can you modify it so it opens to a differnt directory then the main one?

I just added a configuration variable for that. Also, the current shell directory is the default start directory now.

[Exerro]

i have an os so if youre interested it wud be great for you to work with me and my os...but anyway i basically want O's around the edge instead of
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[Darky_Alan]

I'm curious, how come the color of the text in the screen is different, is that a custom addition to the mod, or is there an acctual command I can use for that?

[KevinW1998]

You can change the color in the config but you can't use multiple colors at the same time!

[inventor2514]

Another minor update. This one is for those who are trying to use/modify parts of my code.

[makerimages]

how do you display that ascii art gui??

[inventor2514]

I use term.setCursorPos() and term.write() to draw the ASCII art. Take a look at the functions drawIcon() and drawBorder() in my code for more detail.

[Laserman34170]

Where should I edit the code if I want to use mutiple icons?

[Cranium]

Wow, this is REALLY nice! I love it!

[inventor2514]

Laserman34170, on 17 August 2012 - 04:38 PM, said:

Where should I edit the code if I want to use mutiple icons?

Right now, I can only distinguish between files and directories, so I only have one icon for each. I declare them at lines 23&24. If you wanted to, you could declare your own icons in the same style and use them as arguments for drawIcon(), but you would need a way to recognize different types of files.

craniumkid22, on 17 August 2012 - 04:44 PM, said:

Wow, this is REALLY nice! I love it!

Thank you; I appreciate the appreciation.

[Laserman34170]

inventor2514, on 17 August 2012 - 05:18 PM, said:

Laserman34170, on 17 August 2012 - 04:38 PM, said:

Where should I edit the code if I want to use mutiple icons?

Right now, I can only distinguish between files and directories, so I only have one icon for each. I declare them at lines 23&24. If you wanted to, you could declare your own icons in the same style and use them as arguments for drawIcon(), but you would need a way to recognize different types of files.

Yes, actually I'm thinking on finding a string inside the filename for an extension.

[inventor2514]

Laserman34170, on 20 August 2012 - 01:53 PM, said:

Yes, actually I'm thinking on finding a string inside the filename for an extension.

In that case, make the following changes to my functions; they should be around line 104. You should be able to check for file extensions and draw your custom icons.

-- Draws an icon at the specified position
local function drawIcon(x, y, tIcon, sName)
local tIcon = tIcon
for i, s in ipairs(tIcon) do
  output(x, y+i-1, s)
end
if sName then output(x, y+#tIcon, string.sub(sName, 1, 8)) end
end
-- Draws icons to represent file data
local function drawIcons()
local pos = 1 + maxCol*(row-1)
local limit = pos-1+maxCol*maxRow
if #tData < limit then limit = #tData end
local icon = 1
for i = pos, limit do
  local x, y, sName = tOrigins[icon][1], tOrigins[icon][2], tData[i][1]
  if tData[i][2] then
   drawIcon(x, y, tDirIcon, sName)
  else
   drawIcon(x, y, tFileIcon, sName) -- replace this with your code
  end
  icon = icon + 1
end
end

[makerimages]

how do you distinguish between files and directorys?