Weekly Update (6/20/2020) - Progress on Version 0.0.2

GUI, Anyone?


This week, I finally got the Dev Kit to install! That means I finally got the thing I was most interested in: canvas! Because of that, I mainly focused on reimplementing and improving the experimental GUI (which currently has no name). I also thought I had to reimplement the mouse driver, however I was able to just use the one made by SparrOSDeveloperTeam with some minor modifications.
GUI With Application Drawer Open

TestApp Open
Currently, the GUI is pretty useless. However, I'm going to be improving upon it in version 0.0.3.
I'm not very great with graphics so that took me the entire week to build.

Other Changes

Other than that, I haven't really changed anything except make it so Setup crashes DremDOS if it's called even though DremDOS is already set up. Oh, and I made it so it makes little beepy sounds as it progresses for no reason other than it making me happy. Considering I'm going to be going to work in under an hour as of writing this, I doubt I'll get anything done today. Or tomorrow, for that fact.

Expect way more changes next week!

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