Thursday, September 27, 2007

Update

Hi, Sorry for the lack of updates... I am still working on Screens but I just did not have anything to say. I dont think that 'still working' posts are needed. Screens Environment development is realy moving forward but painfully slow. I feel that the time I have something to release, no one will be interested in it. While the object storage is fine so far, I am now working on the graphical user interface stuff like drawing shapes to the screen. It has been nice to do all different drawing designs and test them very easily. I need to think of a concrete model before I can move forward to the window & control classes. You might say great you are nearly there, but that is so untrue. There is so much to do... ok... enough of that. To be more informational, I am working very hard on the drawing model to be fast and easy to use. I hope some spark will arrive and I will able to tell you that I am working on the window stuff, but so far... nothing. The performance is nice so far, it was worth the rewrite just to see that the object storage is not tied to a file but works rather by periodically syncronizing the objects to a file. This gives great performance increases and I will see it mostly when moving a window around the screen. About the forum, I dont think I should do that untill I have something to show you all which will last more than a week. Also I did not solve the problem with concrete objects, so you wont be seeing that feature anytime soon in the object storage. In fact, the multi-tasking side of Screens is not implemented yet. So, what is? Not much... basicly the object storage.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm still watching and waiting, and hoping that something amazing will come out of screens. Don't give it. It is worth it. Keep up the good work and don't be discouraged!