Hello all! Work has been steadily progressing in the background here. I have implemented support for various types of buttons and fields to the FreeCard engine. The buttons need a far bit of work to get the display right yet, but the fields are looking great!
One of the big advantages of using Java is that we get to piggy back on some of it's cool features like being able to embed images and other components (buttons etc) inside fields as well as rendering HTML. To show this off the test harness currently creates a new stack, a new card and a new scrolling field. Then it sets the URL of the field to http://freecard.sf.net The field then goes off and loads the page and displays it, complete with images and tables. The resulting screen is at http://freecard.sf.net/field.pdf (Jaguar saves screenshots in pdf and it's too late at night for me to convert it to something else, sorry). It's only 40k though. Currently properties are pretty much entirely unsupported but I have my trusty HC manuals beside me and will take to implementing them over the next few days. So far we have basic support for: Stacks Cards Backgrounds (well, sort of - you can create them, but their elements don't show up on cards yet) Buttons (but they look wrong) Fields Static message passing. So we need to add to this: Dynamic message passing (simple) Object properties HyperTalk compiler Actually call handlers instead of just pretending to. :) Stack file format - we'll wind up supporting a range of formats seamlessly as they provide different advantages in different situations. Load and save stacks. There's a long way to go yet, but we're making progress and much faster than I originally expected! *Now* is the time to jump on board and submit ideas, suggestions and code (HyperTalk scripts for cool interface scripts are very useful and can be put straight into FreeGUI *now*). I think I have a surprise in store for tomorrow night as well. Stay tuned.... Adrian Sutton. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Freecard-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freecard-general
