All is moving along quite nicely. I have finished the Arial font type and it is working well. I have been working on the menus and have just about completed those. I will be using the interpolation formula to create shadow effects to further enhance the menus and cursor. I still need to add life to the scroll bar and I still need to integrate the back-end to the new front-end. As soon as I have done that, I will begin developing support for the FAT32 and EXT2 file systems.
I have decided against allowing the user to choose a screen resolution at start up, so the first major release will default to 800x600x16M resolution. I plan to eventually allow the loader to choose the "best" available resolution in the near future. I still need to draw a few more controls/images and add full interactive support to each of them as well. I have a tough hill to climb before I will be done with the first major release, but the hardest part is already over.
I have decided against allowing the user to choose a screen resolution at start up, so the first major release will default to 800x600x16M resolution. I plan to eventually allow the loader to choose the "best" available resolution in the near future. I still need to draw a few more controls/images and add full interactive support to each of them as well. I have a tough hill to climb before I will be done with the first major release, but the hardest part is already over.
