TheNameOfTheGame Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Looks good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 It keeps on getting better, awesome work. I kind of prefer the name Task Manager, though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari8warez Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 IMO If it's going to manage tasks (i.e change priority, end task, properties etc.) maybe Task Manager is more descriptive, otherwise Activity Monitor sounds just fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 I kind of prefer the name Task Manager, though In the absence of agreement on the matter, I've decided on this: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 In the absence of agreement on the matter, I've decided on this: taskmonitor.png Bloody awesome! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Baloney Clatfart.... I read that as "Catfart" .... an internal project name, perhaps? -Thom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmischief Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 In the absence of agreement on the matter, I've decided on this: taskmonitor.png I guess I deserved that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari8warez Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 (edited) I guess I deserved that. We should really keep our comments limited to: bloody awesome, fucking cool, unbelievable etc... Edited September 1, 2014 by atari8warez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Been away from AA for several days; just catching up on the lastest videos, etc. Bloody awesome, indeed. It's good to see the beloved A8 get this kind of attention. Way to go, FJC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Well, I'd be interested to see the MrFish visualisation of an activity monitor containing the same functional elements as the SymbOS Task Manager. The salient point about the graph is that its height should optimally be a factor of 100 - i.e. 25 or 50 lines. If the graph is 25 lines high, we convert the percentage value into the peak value thus: LSR @ LSR @ 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXG/MNX Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Wow! does you gui system also got a registry with settings ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirx Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Registry is passé, in for SYMBOLS!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caterpiggle Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 REALLY COOL ! i MEAN THAT ! really AMAZING FEST ! Sound like Window 7 Task Manager , interesting ! SO Atari 8 bits computer can do the job as the height of fest ! Can't wait to be release in 1 day for a full GUI OS ! SO I can show my buddy of non-Atari that Atari 8 bits can do the job such as Apple II Desktop or Commodore GEOS ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 TM Graph 13 (In Situ, Scaled).png Nice! I'm not taken with the reversed-out section titles for some reason, but I love the tabs, graphs and text placement. Very sensible use of space. Wow! does you gui system also got a registry with settings ? Nah... INI files, or symbols as pirx says. ...I can show my buddy of non-Atari that Atari 8 bits can do the job such as Apple II Desktop or Commodore GEOS ! And not only that, but it can pre-emptively multitask. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iesposta Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Praise, praise, praise. Wow and all that! I just wish to voice my feelings of the point I believe the GUI usefulness dropped and to this day drives me crazy. In the beginning of using Macintosh computers, when you went to Print, a window opened up with every option presented where all aspects of "Print" could be set. After a quick learning curve you cold tell at a glance everything was set up properly. Then they started burying all the settings inside drop downs, and split into Page Setup windows and Print windows, and it still, to this day, is hard to know everything is set correctly, and many times what you print is useless. I guess the logic is presenting everything at once is too overwhelming, but I think the current convention of burying and splitting things up causes frequent incorrect settings. The above is quite an extreme example of what drives me crazy. The "Meter" mock up above shows it done right. Everything is presented at once and at a glance you can see Usage of CPU & Ram, System, Memory. Imagine those 4 elements in tabs like they might do today, or worse drop downs. You would then have to switch back and forth, and back again and try to remember the info in each, when it is so much better to see it all at one and how they relate to each other all at once. And I am referring way, way back to the first color Mac system where everything was small and light and quick like what you are creating. Large text documents in Quark Express would slow down the screen, but the system boots in 15 seconds. Today we are light years beyond a 25MHz processor, but boot times are a couple minutes! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prodatron Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 that Atari 8 bits can do the job such as Apple II Desktop or Commodore GEOS ! TBH the technology behind GEOS is from the stone age, if you compare it with this system. No real (flexible) GUI (you could say, it's more a fake) and of course no multitasking. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 (edited) I'm not taken with the reversed-out section titles for some reason... I knew you wouldn't be, and so... Edited September 1, 2014 by MrFish 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 (edited) I knew you wouldn't be, and so... I think that looks nicer. But the most impressive thing is the staggering multitasking load! Edited September 1, 2014 by flashjazzcat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmischief Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Will you be supporting regional differences? Or perhaps having multiple versions that compile in regional settings? Languages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 I think that looks nicer. But the most impressive thing is the staggering multitasking load! And the fact that it's only using 154K and 54% of the CPU's processing power. Gotta love those 6502's, eh? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 Will you be supporting regional differences? Or perhaps having multiple versions that compile in regional settings? Languages? I really don't know yet: such things are a ways off. Resources are usually inline (again, I would urge anyone who's interested in the general design to read the SymbOS developer docs: the systems are really similar, despite the different CPU), but they could surely be loaded from a file somehow, if someone wanted to go to all the trouble of translating all the strings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari8warez Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 (edited) And the fact that it's only using 154K and 54% of the CPU's processing power. Gotta love those 6502's, eh? and the fact that it can run 92 programs and 446 processes Edited September 1, 2014 by atari8warez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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+Stephen Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Cool - does this mean we're getting a music player for the GUI too? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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