Gregory's ServerHad an excellent time catching up with tracks I missed this summer as I did optimizations I had lined up from yesterday. I've added a global cursor so I can finally see what I'm doing when between windows. The cursor handling makes use of the applications' mouse vector port to see if a cursor is present in the application or not. This neat trick allows me to draw the global cursor over the applications that do not have one.
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Didn't get to implement translucent windows, but I did get a bunch of things moving forward. I fixed some message passing issues I've had since day1, and pushed on with the program that monitors what is going through connections between the programs, it sounds boring like that, but it wasn't, it was pretty fun, the rom intercepts and draws the data that programs send to each other in real-time.  I don't have much time today so I'll keep it short, implemented theme parsing at the OS level. I wanted the little interface there is to follow the colors defined by the theme file. That's it, just wanted to make things a tad comfier while I work for the rest of the month. More tomorrow, until then I've got lifelines to splice.   I even went a bit overboard with the recovery pass and I made it so it's optimizing itself a bit each pass. Let's call it .. antifragile software. After completing yesterday's task which was to make it so the little self-hosted assembler was interactive, I knew I'd finally able to build my website without leaving the comfort of Porporo. I did it, felt real nice. But, that's it, I'm calling it a day. ^^ Woke up hungover, booted porporo, slouched with my face resting on my fist, wondering about input methods, if there wasn't an interesting way that I could possibly program with just the one hand holding the tablet pen, that wasn't an on-screen keyboard. I considered the way I could write letters on the palm pilot, and wonder what went into a system such as that, and then implemented it.
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@jameschip It's super fun, I think you might appreciate the links I shared on today's Decadv: @neauoire the magic search engine words are โunistroke recogniserโ and thereโs a whole mess of implementations here https://depts.washington.edu/acelab/proj/dollar/index.html @zens yup! there's a whole bunch of schemes for different setups. I picked one that didn't do any trigonometry.  @neauoire makima!!! One QOL thing if itโs not already implemented, a little backspace button could be a good way to improve tablet-only workflow @slink ^^ I didn't expect shorthand recognition to be such a fascinating rabbit hole to fall into. I've spent a second day on the implementation of such a system. I've wanted to see if the scheme I chose could be extended to cover the rest of the ASCII sheet, and if I could remember each glyph. I've also implemented a punctuation mode. Perhaps I will write tomorrow's entry with a tablet pen. Sir, it's only Day 12, this needs to be stretchier. > Stretch Goal: Build my dream operating system, and have fun! @neauoire I'm also curious to know whether having to use un-natural glyphs like those used for Palm graffiti can be practical for writing code ... Okay, one more day on this, it's just too fun. I've split the canvas into three sections so I can input capitalized letters at the top, lowercase letters in the middle, and punctuation at the bottom. This new UX makes the whole thing a lot more practical to use. I'd like to say that I've written lots of code today, but I mostly practiced drawing the alphabet over and over again. @neauoire Now you could create small drawings for snippet expansion. Imagine drawing something to put the signature in an email or to create and save a file. This month's list of experiments is thinning, one of the remaining thing I'd like to do is create a rom that exposes the controls that have until now only been available through keystrokes to move, close, center, collapse and draw connections between programs. The interesting bit of this project is to have most of the state of the operating system collected into the bar's ram. Since parts of Porporo are built with itself, to compile it we need to have a partial implementation of the Varvara ecosystem capable of running cli roms, and an assembler, so that the roms that live at the core of porporo can be assembled and transformed into valid C files with the help of the formatter rom. When this is ready we can finally compile Porporo. It looks like the work I set out to do on Porporo is done, all I have left is to document it properly. This project is going to transform the way I work moving forward. Today, I completed a handful of challenges from lovebyte's tcc event from within the operating system itself to test things out, without running into any issues. 
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@jameschip it doesn't do much at all, d for drawing lines, m for moving. That's it :) Decided to revisit trying to make one of these 3d tunnels effects after failing last year, with some help from the #lovebytetcc folks, I was able to make a neat 210 bytes demo and learnt a neat trick to approximate distance between two points without a square root function. max(|x|,|y|) + min(|x|,|y|) รท 2 eh? I can see why you like it. It's got kind of a stellar bias, which makes it mysterious. I wish to trade it kelp. ๐ I've done a lot of creative coding these past few days, but today I figured I might do well going over everything with the peephole optimizer, linter, formatter, tidying things up a bit. I've also found a little optimization to the theme loading code that resides at the core of nearly every graphical application I've written. |
I'm so close to being able to spawn transparent windows, looking forward to have @hikari's xneko rom running all over the place.