For the launcher settints, as RGames has made it clear, I'll make it look lile the DSI's system settings.
I also want to MML code the background music of it as well as its SFX.
(If RGames finished his PoC, I'll release the new version of the settings.
That's because the theme color still has its blue component overflowing the range. The bugreport has striked them through to let you know that the next update has them fixed... but now I see it's misleading/confusing. The current.version that is uploaded atm has these bugs.
Go back a page or two to see the BUGREPORTS post I did.
(I'll remove the strikes so it's more clear)
The manual is not finished for a long time.
Would you like me to finish all documentary for サカキバラUI before bringing out the next update?
(No new features will be introduced and the settings will only be half-way finished and somewhat ready for beta.)
(This will take around 1 or 2 weeks to finish the manual thanks to holidays)
Also, every time a new feature is introduced that may be major will introduce a change into the manual.
(Also, the languages besides English and German stay empty as no translator is up for that rn though I could just translate it myself using Google Translate and others.)
EDIT:
I've made another サカキバラUI menu theme showcasing the fact that you can use 2 GRPs as background images. It's a green-ish theme using a randomized name. (Make sure you've unpacked all BGs for the theme to display correctly.)
The menu settings has its icon management done.
The general settings like theme selection and another place to change the desktop settings is still missing rn.
Y'know what, I'll publish the changes now though it isn't much. (These will be missing on GitHub as the current changes aren't that major.)
EDIT 2: I'll make a comparator in the setup to make it easier to just copy the download to an up and running version on your 3DS. (The setups will be much slower. Maybe ~3 minutes for it to finish with or without any overwrites)
I want to make a collection of the early builds as some kind of history of サカキバラUI.
Has someone very early versions of サカキバラUI?
(They're Windows 3DS and Windows6Mix)
If so, make a key so I can make the key for the collection.
Hi, I downloaded サカキバラUI(0.3.5r2).
I followed the instruction and ran "SETUP", but I forgot to install the Japanese language pack.
Then I selected Japanese at the Region & Language settings of サカキバラUI.
It said that there was no language pack, and the error screen appeared.
That's ok, but when I pressed X button on my 3DS at the screen, SB3 crashed.
Is this a known issue?
I think サカキバラUI is the best mock OS on SB I have seen ever, and I'm looking forward to update.
Okay, I'm wanting to do other this to サカキバラUI, so I just crappily make the manual pages if the section is there and finished in the previous version.
(Like the 3 commands available in the command prompt which no one but me knows)
Basically, it's just going to be text with little formatting and no illustrations or icons.
When I'm done with it, I'll be going to make サカキバラUI use custom desktop themes.
I might also finish up the menu settings, so you can use your custom menu themes for it when I made the creator user-friendly like I did with the SMD editor.
↑ Update on the above post
Now the whole TABSTEP is used (0-16)
Which bit does what?
b0 - Currently nothing
b1 - Automatically run INITFNT (RGames, you can disable it if you like)
b2 - Enable error messages spit out by the library, e.g. when INITFNT can't find the SYSFNT.BIN file, it'll tell you rightaway (was previously unavoidably enabled)
b3 - Currently nothing
16 (There is no bit 4, meaning the flags above are disabled if TABSTEP is 16) - Currently nothingWhat is the format like?
Unlike the SMD and SMT formats, the desktop designs (SDD) use a ミドリOS-like format, a "program" describing the DEFs which are the juice of it.
Basically, the DEFs are called for certain graphical things, like the window frames or the start button using generic graphic commands (either being SmileBASIC's or those in the XCMD.LIB library)
Details
You might have noticed that the command prompt doesn't allow a long string that you enter into it. 24 or so characters.
That was because the prompt would behave weirdly when the string is longer, such as duplicate lines or constant scrolling.
This bug has been fixed now and I allow you to enter 128 characters at once now, especially with the next thing.
Simple commands like ECHO and randomized variables %RND(****) are now included in the prompt.
Even an over-simplified FOR will run a single or multiple commands a specified amount with I% holding the iteration for use with the commands, e.g. FOR 20;POP I% will make 20 popups telling which one was made first, 2nd, etc.
The command prompt now allows multiple statements in a line using && like Windows's prompt does.
You can now also write a batch program (no labels or IFs yet!) to do a sequence of commands without needing to type the long sequence every time but a simple EXEC instead. (Of course, this allows you to run non-desktop apps too but it's less intuitive than the サカキバラUI menu.)
COLOR now accepts ARGB32 color values, like &HFF8040FF for both fore- and background.
The background is now universal for the prompt, because of performance slowing down a lot. Foreground stays multi-color.Spoiler
Some secret commands are present, allowing you to modify variables, the viewport and so forth.
Spoiler
RES changes the viewport, allowing up to 512x512 (GRP limit)
POKE and PEEK write to or read from certain サカキバラUI variables assigned to a certain number, like most 8bit computers.
(Notice the Xp-ish window?)
Here's the current progress of the menu settings.
(Every button you can press here will glow with the current theme color set, so it behaves similar to how the DSi's settings did.)
I still need to add the sub-menus before I can call this settings program complete.
Also, you can use the D-Pad and the A or B buttons to navigate as an alternative of touch controls.
［Something I noticed after editing this post］I should change
サカキバラUI settings management
to
Desktop settings management
although the theme color is being read by the menu and the settings of it.
TBH It's quite like the 3DS's recreation of the DSi settings.
Though I want to make a theme designer for the menu as I demonstrated before so you can customize it to your desire.
(I've revised the theme format somewhat to allow background images instead of just the gradient for both screens but the currently only theme is still ful!y compatible with the revision.)
Of course, the desktop window themes (I'll rename them to "designs" from now on) will be like companion programs instead of raw data but that'll come much later.
PS: Sorry for “shouting” you... ;(
btw the japanese language pack is currently just a dummy as I don't have a translator for it. most pieces of text disappears when loaded. (Just compare the size of the japanese pack and the english pack)
EDIT:
I have talked about this on Discord as well
EDIT: Rephrasing and (maybe) better understanding
I'm thinking about linking my projects to any other on SBS, so you might not need to remember which project belonged to which. But I think I just wasted my time there I think.
Basically there´ll be a menu where you can select from and view a list of known projects on the SD card, so you can jump to them. (This doesn't work on the "Browse Projects" section due to it quitting like サカキバラUI sometimes)
It would simply ask the user to press the fifth function key twice before I wanted to ditch the file name of the executable
A dialog the library spits out when the INITFNT in your PRG hits
Various changes allow for the font initialization to be optional, so R-OS V and other projects don´t need the SYSFNT.BIN if they don't want the font and GPRINT_NEW.
Basically, the menus will be like, as if you deleted the font.
The manual especially, where the pages are basically blank. This doesn't affect the index and language select.