Osiris

[Kevin_theprogrammer]

May I suggest something simpler such as Graphic Enviroment Manager?

[thegrogen]

What's wrong with the current name name? To me, "Graphic Environment Manager" sounds kind of stilted and unoriginal, so I probably won't use that. Any other ideas?

BTW I am definitely going to include a Theme Manager where you will be able to change the theme of the GUI, so no fears in that area.

[Kevin_theprogrammer]

Osiris doesn't seem like a GUI...it sounds like either a car or a camera...

[yetifoot]

lol, are you trying to start a court case by suggesting GEM?¬!!??!!

[thegrogen]

Hmmm, I suppose you're right, Osiris doesn't really sound much like the name for a GUI.

Here's a list of alternate names that I came up with when I started writing it:

Rogue
Horus
Volcano
Luminal
Fireborn

Which one do you think fits it best? If none of them really sound like they fit to you, what name do you suggest?

[yetifoot]

i like Horus, cause its similar to Whore huh huh beavis.

how about moloch? then just like bill g you can demand peoples first born to be sacrificed in payment.

[thegrogen]

I've implemented 4 built-in themes (I'll add customizable themes later) and the beginnings of a bytecode interpreter.

[Kevin_theprogrammer]

What type of multitasking will you be using?

[thegrogen]

What I'm doing now (but I probably won't do in the final version) is running 30 opcodes from each program per frame. This is just for testing purposes, so this system isn't permanent.

In the final version, what I'll do is have different code segments in the program for each different stage of program execution (rendering, logic, input handling, etc.), and what I'll do is I'll run each code segment in the program at it's appropriate time in the OS's program loop, and run each program's code segment at the same time. Something like this

Program code:

Code:

.input
; ....

.process
; ....

.render
;....

OS loop:

Code:

'...
for loops = 1 to numProgramsRunning
     EXEC_CallInput(programs(loops)) 'call the input segments on all programs
next loops

'...

for loops = 1 to numProgramsRunning
     EXEC_CallProcess(programs(loops)) 'call the process segments on all programs
next loops

'...
for loops = 1 to numProgramsRunning
     EXEC_CallRender(programs(loops)) 'call the rendering segments on all programs
next loops

That setup isn't finalized, but that is most likely how it's going to work. I'll release a demo of it (including source code) fairly soon, probably once I get the multitasking system working and more commands in the bytecode language.

[speedlemon]

Here's my suggestions

Luke
Jacob
Spicer
Matt
Jonathon
Clarence
Colin
Keith
Mark
Christopher
Terry
Gregory
Patrick
Neenan
Franklin

If you don't like any of those, I can come up with more just say.