Paolo Amoroso
boosted
@interlisp ☝️ A vertical scroll bar at the left edge of a window. Wait, what?
@interlisp ☝️ A vertical scroll bar at the left edge of a window. Wait, what?
@interlisp ☝️ A vertical scroll bar at the left edge of a window. Wait, what?
To scroll a window on Medley Interlisp hover the mouse pointer slightly beyond the left or bottom edge to bring up a scroll bar, then left-click or right-click. Middle-clicking positions the thumb within the bar.
Screenshot of a portion of the black and white desktop of a 1980s graphical workstation environment. The desktop has a gray background pattern and one window with a white background and a title bar with white text on a black background. The window is a file browser with a main pane listing some files, status and input panes, and a command menu. The file list has a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom edge.
Screenshot of a portion of the black and white desktop of a 1980s graphical workstation environment. The desktop has a gray background pattern and one window with a white background and a title bar with white text on a black background. The window is a file browser with a main pane listing some files, status and input panes, and a command menu. The file list has a vertical scroll bar at the left edge.
Dario Castañé 🏴☠️⁂
boosted
A frigging spreadsheet editor in Go!
At the after conference for Fyne Conf, a member of the community wanted to show us what he "toyed" with for a few weeks/months. It seems nobody there knew him.
After passively listening to everybody chatting, he decided to show it.
And he DELIVERED. He implemented some kind of clone of Excel, with cell/column/row merging, text bleeding over next cell on the same line, etc.
INCREDIBLE WORK.
And, he asked humbly: "do you think people might find that useful?".
- "I don't know dude, you just implemented one of the hardest/most complex software on Earth. I bet people would be interested. I know I am"
It's incredible the amount of hidden talent we have that don't even think they made something crazy.
Anyway, here is a screenshot of a spreadsheet with all the quirks and stuff that Excel does. It's so IMPRESSIVE!
A frigging spreadsheet editor in Go!
At the after conference for Fyne Conf, a member of the community wanted to show us what he "toyed" with for a few weeks/months. It seems nobody there knew him.
After passively listening to everybody chatting, he decided to show it.
And he DELIVERED. He implemented some kind of clone of Excel, with cell/column/row merging, text bleeding over next cell on the same line, etc.
INCREDIBLE WORK.
And, he asked humbly: "do you think people might find that useful?".
- "I don't know dude, you just implemented one of the hardest/most complex software on Earth. I bet people would be interested. I know I am"
It's incredible the amount of hidden talent we have that don't even think they made something crazy.
Anyway, here is a screenshot of a spreadsheet with all the quirks and stuff that Excel does. It's so IMPRESSIVE!
Matthias Müller-Prove's 2002 MSc thesis on the history of hypertext and GUIs is an introduction to these fields and their major systems, including NoteCards.
Ok people, I want to make a #gui #desktop application. It's a somewhat simple lan messenger app, something like the famous "lan messenger", but updated.
I've never created native gui applications, so I want you to tell me based on your real experience that what tools I should use.
My requirements:
1. It should be cheap to create and maintain (not too much complexity, or time consuming gymnastics and the platform and tools must be stable and not need constant babysitting)
2. It should have acceptable performance
3. It must take small Ram,cpu resources. As far as it's not annoying and hogging resources it will be ok (~300mb of ram is my max acceptable ram usage for this application)
My skills:
1. #JS / #TS
2. #Python
3. #Clojure
4. #C (not too good with it)
5. #Rust
My main issue with C and even more, rust, is the complexity and effort curve that they introduce.
I personally dislike python but if it has good native gui support I will use it.
I have most bias towards Clojure for this. it seems like a middle.
@mikebabcock Hey I wasn't trying to suggest that computers were better back then, I was suggesting that it was harder for them to be good!
Though from my reading there's a bit of a distinction to be had with Amiga here: The IBM PCs Microsoft was targeting barely had a graphics chip, Apple omitted them entirely initially.
Amiga had more acceleration.
@alcinnz sorry my response was probably too terse. I just meant that we have rose coloured glasses until we actually boot old hardware and go "oh yeah, the gui sucked on these."
(As someone who ran various non-Windows GUIs before succumbing to Windows 3.1 then 95, 98 and finally X11 on Linux)
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSX-32
#OperatingSystem #OS #Linux #Windows#GUI#Computing#oldPerson
(As someone who ran various non-Windows GUIs before succumbing to Windows 3.1 then 95, 98 and finally X11 on Linux)
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSX-32
#OperatingSystem #OS #Linux #Windows#GUI#Computing#oldPerson
The original Macintosh took me by suprise in 1984 because, as a hobbyist with limited access to research literature, I wasn't aware of the work at Xerox PARC and elsewhere on Graphical User Interfaces. I was familiar with the text and graphics modes of home and personal computers but the mouse-driven interface came out of the blue for me.
alcinnz
boosted
New #blog post: My Favorite GUI Programs
https://rldane.space/my-favorite-gui-programs.html
914 words
This is one of those fun cases where one blost begets another one in pretty rapid succession.
Nothing deep, just a fun little jaunt through computing memory lane.
I have Dave's toot to thank for the genesis of this post.
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #writing #GUI #Macintosh #Windows #Linux #RetroComputing #Choplifter #MacPaint #HyperCard #MSPaint #Dillo #DilloBrowser
New #blog post: My Favorite GUI Programs
https://rldane.space/my-favorite-gui-programs.html
914 words
This is one of those fun cases where one blost begets another one in pretty rapid succession.
Nothing deep, just a fun little jaunt through computing memory lane.
I have Dave's toot to thank for the genesis of this post.
cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #writing #GUI #Macintosh #Windows #Linux #RetroComputing #Choplifter #MacPaint #HyperCard #MSPaint #Dillo #DilloBrowser
#programming #workflow#GUI #mcclim#commonLisp #emacs #ecl #clisp #slime#leonardoCalculus #eepitch
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/LCKR-object-oriented-simulation-simulation/
I have to say, I am really, really happy with how the flow into the thirty second GIF reflects my ideal computer useage.
Basically, I write a clim command that steers my leonardo system "like a person does" via emacs-server, visible in the background of the straightforward clim interactor GUI I generated in a couple lines.
KDE Plasma 6.4 has landed in OpenBSD https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250705081711 #openbsd #kde #graphics #desktop #gui #windowmanager #plasma
For the past year or so The Blisscast Journal has been publishing GUI Wonderland, a nice blog series on the origins and evolution of GUIs. Here goes weekend, for weeks.
🖱️ How Apple Ruined GEM - And Nearly Windows, Too! - ctrl-alt-rees