Weekly Update (4/23/20) - Progress on Version 0.0.2

Finally Some Real Progress!

I've made a good amount of progress this week. Not as much as I'd like, but still pretty decent!

First off, I commented the code. I know! Super exciting! But more importantly, I started work on the Text Desktop Environment, or as I like to call it, the Textop (I know very clever).

Textop Progress

So far, the Textop can't do much as it is impossible (as far as I can tell) to detect left and right clicks. This should be possible in the Dev Kit, so once I get a new laptop some time in the beginning of May, this will be fixed. Thus, I think DremDOS 0.0.2 will probably be done sometime in the middle of May.

Here is a list of currently implemented features for Textop

  • I reused the mouse driver from SparrOSDeveloperTeam to be able to be used with text. 
    • However, the screen will need to be refreshed each mouse update with Console.Clear() or else the mouse will leave behind a trail.
      • The "pseudo-screen-blanking" feature is already implemented, albeit very poorly
  • A ribbon on top that displays time info.
It's not much, but that mouse driver was a big accomplishment!

A Look At The Textop

Note: the ] in the bottom left is the mouse.

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