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News Item Posted by User micah - Last Updated: 2001-01-29

I have been keeping logs of my work on PicoGUI since the beginning of January, so I thought I might as well publish them. As they're almost entirely for my own benefit, don't expect much, but they are always as up to date as the code. Links are on the new "Developer logs" sidebar.

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News Item Posted by User micah - Last Updated: 2001-01-11

I've still been improving the video drivers and fixing bugs, all in the name of stability. The linear8 driver is working very nicely now. There are a few things I might improve, but other than that I'm ready to make linear framebuffer base libraries for other bit depths. This will make it very easy to write video drivers for most hardware and still possible to drive any hardware.

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News Item Posted by User micah - Last Updated: 2001-01-03

Happy Holidays and Happy New Millenium!

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News Item Posted by User micah - Last Updated: 2000-12-12

Sorry for that long period of inactivity... After adding another network card to my server my CVS stopped working. (Turns out that upgrading to 2.4.0-test11 fixed it!)

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News Item Posted by User micah - Last Updated: 2000-11-12

Some diagrams showing PicoGUI's architecture are now available on the new documentation sidebar. This should help anybody who's a little confused about how all this fits together. In other news, I added a couple new themes (see screenshots) and I've been working on all the little things that stand in the way of real applications for PicoGUI.

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News Item Posted by User micah - Last Updated: 2000-11-05

Well, as you might have seen from the recent screenshots, PicoGUI's popup menus and panelbars work! These were the two biggest gaps that needed filling before PicoGUI can actually run things. Now it should be possible to build a toolbar for launching and monitoring applications. Of course without a multiline text editor the usefulness is limited, but we're getting there!

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News Item Posted by User micah - Last Updated: 2000-10-29

I added a tiny sprite engine to generalize the process of overlaying stuff on top of the screen. This is now used for dragging (such as the panelbar) and the mouse cursor. Now that PicoGUI can draw its own mouse cursor, I was able to finish the SVGAlib driver. It needs more optimization, and mode switching isn't implemented, but it works- so, I'll try to put it on a disk with a kernel :)

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News Item Posted by User micah - Last Updated: 2000-10-27

The new web site is up! It's not perfect, but I'll still be improving on it. The screenshot listing works pretty well, and things like an improved snapshot archive and maybe a theme gallery will come soon.

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News Item Posted by User micah - Last Updated: 2000-10-22

Gee, it's been way too long since the last news item :-(
First, the bad news: my fall break is almost over. 1 hour and 49 minutes left, officially. (Everyone knows I'm a student, right? Aren't all Open Source / Free Software programmers students? ;-)

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News Item Posted by User micah - Last Updated: 2000-09-24

The C client library that Philippe and I have been working on is almost completed. The important things like event bindings, widget properties, and packet buffering are 100% completed. The new theme code is going slowly though. I just haven't had much time to work on it. On the bright side, I think I've found a file format that will work and I have started writing a theme compiler in the new themetools/themec directory. (I'm learning lex and yacc!)

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News Item Posted by User micah - Last Updated: 2000-09-16

Philippe Ney was first to post actual code for the client lib. His demo prog made a sucessful connection to the server, and sent some packets. I cleaned up the code, debugged it, and added a handful of new features last night. I have the design for the new theme system planned out but I'm only starting to implement it. Find the new client lib in the cli_c directory (on CVS of course) and the theme code I'm working on will soon be on the theme_overhaul branch of the pgserver CVS.
BTW, we're actually using the mailing list now! Woohoo!

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News Item Posted by User micah - Last Updated: 2000-09-09

Finally have some code in the cli_c directory. Yep, the beginning of the long-procrastinated C client library. I set up some of the headers, and a Makefile, but it's a first step. After testing out PicoGUI with the Perl API for a while, I decided I liked it enough to implement the C client lib about the same way. (Yay for object oriented programming in pure C!)

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News Item Posted by User micah - Last Updated: 2000-09-08

Good news to report today. On Wednesday, (Sept 6) SmartData joined the PicoGUI project to port it to their hardware. Philippe Ney has joined the developers to add device drivers and a C client lib, and other things SmartData could need. (like an interface to a JVM) So, now that there is more than one developer anyone interested is encouraged to join the pgui-devel mailing list.

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News Item Posted by User micah - Last Updated: 2000-09-03

Ugh. I have been too busy lately to update both the code and the HTML. Quite a lot has been happening with PicoGUI. As always, download the code from CVS, but if you're lazy you can get a perpetually-out-of-date tarball on the sourceforge page too ;-)

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News Item Posted by User micah - Last Updated: 2000-06-09

Popup boxes work. Combination text/bitmap buttons work. Many speed enhancements in networking. Still a bug with S_ALL and buttons, but next on my feature list is scrolling, composite widgets, and (tada!) the text edit widget (with support for HTML and other cool stuff). Still works in Linux and windoze with SDL, and the SVGAlib driver is in progress. Haven't started the 68EZ328 driver yet.

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