Window API [NEW TOPIC]

Hello! So i want to make like dragable multishell windows in my Graphical Operative system.
Would window API be the right choise? and can someone explain how window is usefull etc thanks!

//Daniel

Checkout my Oblox OS. The code should be easy enough to understand.

ObloxCC, on 07 May 2017 - 12:37 PM said:

Checkout my Oblox OS. The code should be easy enough to understand.

I'm looking at it right now but its pretty hard for me too understand

Thoo i'wd be happy if someone like had a titorial or something

Making dragable windows is out of my realm, but i get the basic premise. You need to have windows setup (So yes, window API would be the best idea for part of it) that listen for click events, and then tell if you've let go or not. If you havnt and you move your cursor, move the window to the proper position.

CLNinja, on 07 May 2017 - 05:12 PM said:

Making dragable windows is out of my realm, but i get the basic premise. You need to have windows setup (So yes, window API would be the best idea for part of it) that listen for click events, and then tell if you've let go or not. If you havnt and you move your cursor, move the window to the proper position.

But is it possible to like run programs inside a window instead of a tab

SO this contiunes on my last topic if window api for be the right choise for multishell windowed programs but is it possibel to like run programs inside windowes maybe by usin window API or something like that insstead of tabs. I know this is possbile by simply having the program code inside the program that is runing the windows but in my case i can't do that
any help would be helpful :)/>

//Daniel

Yes, it is, take a look at Lyqyd OS

danielsv03, on 07 May 2017 - 05:38 PM said:

CLNinja, on 07 May 2017 - 05:12 PM said:

Making dragable windows is out of my realm, but i get the basic premise. You need to have windows setup (So yes, window API would be the best idea for part of it) that listen for click events, and then tell if you've let go or not. If you havnt and you move your cursor, move the window to the proper position.

But is it possible to like run programs inside a window instead of a tab

Yes, its completely possible. If you create a window with the window API and redirect term to that, anything that happens will effectively be limited to the area of that box.

CLNinja, on 07 May 2017 - 05:59 PM said:

danielsv03, on 07 May 2017 - 05:38 PM said:

CLNinja, on 07 May 2017 - 05:12 PM said:

Making dragable windows is out of my realm, but i get the basic premise. You need to have windows setup (So yes, window API would be the best idea for part of it) that listen for click events, and then tell if you've let go or not. If you havnt and you move your cursor, move the window to the proper position.

But is it possible to like run programs inside a window instead of a tab

Yes, its completely possible. If you create a window with the window API and redirect term to that, anything that happens will effectively be limited to the area of that box.

So i tried to do somethinglike this

myWindow = window.create(term.current(),15,5,20,10)
myWindow.setBackgroundColor(colors.white)
myWindow.clear()
term.redirect(mywindow)
print("hello")

But it says like invalid redirect

You wrote mywindow not myWindow in the term.redirect call.

Exerro, on 07 May 2017 - 06:20 PM said:

You wrote mywindow not myWindow in the term.redirect call.

Thanks!

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