Vic GUI

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:03 am

I just downloaded the (mockup) VIC screenshot of Elite, and now this VEOS or something - and it's already working! Thanks for this, I can't wait to show VIC windows to my friends

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Kananga · Post by **Kananga** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:59 am

orion70 wrote:I just downloaded the (mockup) VIC screenshot of Elite, and now this VEOS or something - and it's already working! Thanks for this, I can't wait to show VIC windows to my friends .

Actually, the (mockup) Elite screen would fit into a window of the GUI

KingTrode · Post by **KingTrode** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:15 am

Just downloaded the latest update:-

Wow - this project has come on quite a bit in such a short time, I'm very impressed indeed.

Keep up the good work Kananga

TBCVIC · Post by **TBCVIC** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:22 am

It would be fun and I guess possible to atleast make a working version of Pong for example, running in one window

Vic20-Ian · Post by **Vic20-Ian** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:36 am

Fantastic, look forward to moving the windows around and to having focus return to last window after closing one.

Kananga · Post by **Kananga** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 12:28 am

Vic20-Ian wrote:Fantastic, look forward to moving the windows around and to having focus return to last window after closing one.

The program could activate the new top-most window after destroying a window, which is quite easy to implement. It would imply when you select something from the menu window, which opens a new window:
1 - menu window closes
2 - new top-most window is activated and redrawn
3 - frame is hidden again if the new frame needs its character memory
4 - new frame shows up
ATM, I am not sure if the extra steps (2&3) would be too annoying and how to avoid them in a general way. Perhaps a flag that is set when closing a frame and reset when a new frame is created. The main loop could check that flag and activate the top-most frame, if that flag is set.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 12:43 am

I feel like I'm only seeing the top left corner of a larger desktop. Are my settings wrong? Can someone post a screen shot?

KingTrode · Post by **KingTrode** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 2:31 am

Jeff-20 wrote:I feel like I'm only seeing the top left corner of a larger desktop. Are my settings wrong? Can someone post a screen shot?

This a screenshot from WINVice:-

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 4:10 am

Jeff, try setting VICE to PAL.

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 4:34 am

KingTrode wrote: This a screenshot from WINVice:-

http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... php?t=4413

Post by **Jeff-20** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:48 am

D'oh. I just had PAL emulation on, but I forgot to check VIDEO STANDARD to make sure it was PAL too. Fixed now. Thanks.

Now I can't seem to pull up the task manager window...

saehn · Post by **saehn** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 12:44 pm

Jeff-20 wrote:D'oh. I just had PAL emulation on, but I forgot to check VIDEO STANDARD to make sure it was PAL too. Fixed now. Thanks.

Now I can't seem to pull up the task manager window...

PAL Emulation is just a display filter, BTW. It's kind of similar to the scanlines setting in that it alters the way the emulated C64 output looks. It doesn't affect any of the system timings, however. You can have VICE set to a Video Standard of NTSC and still turn on PAL Emulation.

Nevermind if you already knew that.

Kananga · Post by **Kananga** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 3:13 pm

Jeff-20 wrote:Now I can't seem to pull up the task manager window...

No tasks to manage yet, but you may get a blue screen...

nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Mon May 03, 2010 6:11 am

wow, very good progress !!!

Kananga · Post by **Kananga** » Wed May 05, 2010 5:44 pm

I have added NTSC support (24x30, probably too big) and screen refresh sync.
Would be great if somebody with access to an NTSC-Vic could test it:
http://vin20.googlecode.com/files/vin-0.2.prg