Well, I have not really been up to much lately, as with work and the such however yesterday I went and finally bought a Windows 7 phone. I am quite impressed with it at the moment. So over the next coming few months where will probably be come more coding being done and little Windows 7 Phone apps being created! Of course the details of which will be posted on here.
So it has been a while, I have not added much on here for a while. However, last week I received my results from the University of Kent for my dissertation and the rest of my masters course. Therefore I have put my dissertation as an attachment to this post. AS I had said that I would do in previous posts.
So today has mainly been a day of writing the report to go along with the actual project itself. It details stuff like how parts of the system have been done and why they have been done that way. Although while writing I have thought of at least one thing which would be different. The window controller has a bitmap array, which holds 1 if the correlating array index in the window data holder array has an item, if not then it holds –1. Obviously, or at least it is now, I could have just created a Boolean array instead of an integer array and then hold true if there is something there, and false if not.
Anyway, other than that I have now fixed the system so that when a window is closed the input is diverted to the window which is now the front most window.
I have yet to give feedback to a user when they are clicking or are hovering over an item but that is soon to come… I hope!
Okay, so I thought I would have a quick go with windows live writer to see if it is any good and if it can update my blog happily. As you can see from the picture above it seems fairly easy to write a post in. I think it will be quite good. I shall hopefully update Crom some more as some point today so until then….
So the above is a video from my GUI (which is now called Crom). There are obviously one or two problems with it currently. Firstly, you have to make sure that you click on the button properly, then again that is the same with any graphical interface – however there is no feedback as to whether or not you have clicked the button.
Secondly exiting an application and then trying to type to the now on top window will cause the while GUI to crash and thus die (which is not really good). However, I hope to have these main problems sorted out really soon!
I now have a name for my graphical interface for RMoX, that is right it is now going to be called Crom – why? I think it sounds quite good – although I was not the one who came up with it! That’s all for now as I am currently using the free wifi at Fleet services!
Okay, so I might have to start thinking about a more imaginative title to these posts other than RMoX console! Anyway, I have been doing quite a bit of work on it, I now have managed to get events – keyboard and mouse events to be sent to the window, so the console is working all properly. I have also started to implement buttons so that soon you shoul be able to click buttons, which will be cool! There is not much more to say at the moment, as I have mainly been working on the actual report, which once it is done and marked I will make it available on here. If I am allowed to!
So today I have done some more work on the console / windowing system. Firstly the windows now move about the screen without too many errors. I have also now made it so that only clicking the title will mean that it will drag or come to the forefront. This was done simply by working out the the location of the frame, due to the offset if the location of the mouse minus the location of the window is a minus number it means that the mouse is within the title, else it is within the main body of the window. This will enable me to then pass this click off to the window to let it know what has happened – simple it sounds, took a while to get there though!
Other than that I also have a background image now, it meant extending the size of the rom disk but to be honest with you, I think it was worth it – no more boring black background!
During my time at uni I was involved with creating a society with two friends Lies and Becky. This all started when I was working and Lies was talking about the love for her films. I was spending way too much time in front of my computer, so much so my pale white complexion what I love so much, was just a little bit too pale. Anyway, I suggested to Lies that we should start a society. She could watch her films on a bigger screen and I could get away from my computer!
So we did, and for about two and a half years I was treasurer. Anyway, why am I telling you all this, well as a society we try to get people to come along to watch them with us. (Afterall we would feel a bit silly with just 3 of us sitting in a 50 seat lecture theatre! ) Anyway, today while browsing Facebook Susan put up her blog, I looked at it and saw that she also had written another blog (http://susi-in-kent.blogspot.com/) I just felt that it was so nice that someone would bother to write about their trips to out little society! It has just made me smile 
Hazaa, okay, the picture above may not look like much to you and sure there are a few bugs (which you can not see from the above picture) However I now have a console in my graphical interface for RMoX.
So what are the current bugs, mainly every time the window behind updates it over writes the one in front, although I am sure this can be fixed, we shall see…
