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Text based GUI for VGA_HiRes_Text Driver (revised)

Simple text based GUI elements for the VGA_HiRes_Text driver supporting mouse and keyboard input. Nothing fancy but some fundamental items to control and display feedback for your Prop Application. This is simple enough so that you can build on it yourself as needed. Included are 8 objects
- text panes, menus, status lamps, spin buttons
- input fields with selectable keyboard focus
- check boxes, radio buttons, push buttons
Bug reports and suggestions are welcome.

The revised version (1.2) has a few bug fixes and an improved infrastructure that handles all of the UI management (that the user had to write in the previous version). This simplifies the use of the UI greatly and the user only has to create the elements and any action functions that the elements will trigger.

Version:
1.2

Type:
Object

Attributes:

Author:
allen marincak
amarincak@hotmail.com

Categories:
Display
Human Input

Downloads:
1,462

Last Updated:
2009-02-25

User Reviews:

Comments on this Object:

[2011-01-15 02:50:49] Anonymous said:
Way cool! Exactly what I was looking for! Great job! Reply

[2011-05-25 04:08:49] Anonymous said:
Does not work on the C3 despite using the correct VGA group (16).. :( Marc Reply

[2011-05-25 04:15:33] Anonymous said:
need to assert pin 13 low for c3 to work. Reply

[2011-05-27 17:50:16] allen marincak said:
Cool, didn't take you long to figure it out :). When I wrote this the C3 was not around. Is that pin 13 ... or IO P13? From a quick look at the C3 I figured it would be IO P15 (i.e. pin 16) you would need to assert low(?). Anyway, cheers! Reply

[2011-11-06 05:23:09] Anonymous said:
Thank you for this fantastic GUI. I was quite shocking that I could not find a way of drawing just text (without surrounding the surrounding window). Which way do you think is the best for doing this? Reply

[2011-11-06 05:30:29] Anonymous said:
Oh, sorry, I just couldn't find it because there was no object for that purpose and I was not specified in the first comment block of the demo, but is as simple as using GUI.PrintStr(). Sorry for my silly question! Reply

[2011-11-07 15:49:08] allen marincak said:
:) That was fast, lol. Glad you find it useful, cheers! Reply

[2011-12-07 22:39:06] Anonymous said:
[by cprcrack] In case someone needs to be able to select an item of the spin control programmatically, it can be done like this: 1) In GUIBase.spin, add: PUB SPINSetDataIndex(guid, index) | odx odx := gz_elem[guid] & G_OMSK SPIN[odx].SetDataIndex(index) 2) In SpinBox.spin, add: PUB SetDataIndex(index) varDataIdx := index DrawData(index) Reply

[2011-12-07 22:40:13] Anonymous said:
[by cprcrack] Oops, no line breaks, you will have to split both the adding 1 and 2 in 3 lines each, good luck! Reply