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Build Your Own Front End(EXTENDed-)
« on: May 25, 2013, 03:53:22 pm »
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Re: Build Your Own Front End
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2013, 05:10:08 pm »
I'd be interested. 
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Build Your Own Front End
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2013, 05:27:26 pm »
Count me in too. I would love to learn how to do this.
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Re: Build Your Own Front End
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2013, 09:53:02 am »
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Re: Build Your Own Front End
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2013, 02:39:09 pm »
I'm watching, just not playing along.  Always interested in learning new things.
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Re: Re: Build Your Own Front End
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2013, 04:46:25 pm »
Quote from: Le Chuck on May 26, 2013, 02:39:09 pm
I'm watching, just not playing along.  Always interested in learning new things.
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« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2013, 05:15:57 pm »
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Re: Build Your Own Front End
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2013, 06:38:04 pm »
Quote from: Le Chuck on May 26, 2013, 02:39:09 pm
I'm watching, just not playing along.  Always interested in learning new things.

Same here. I like learning new stuff.
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Re: Build Your Own Front End
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2013, 10:15:42 pm »
Also just watching. Very interesting, & if I had the time...
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Re: Build Your Own Front End
« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2013, 10:09:43 am »
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Re: Build Your Own Front End
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2013, 11:22:16 am »
Following along, with some caveats,

I'm on Win7 Home Premium 64. I first had to download DirectX 9.0c from Microsoft. I used the webinstaller, it took a little while. Also when running Dark Basic, I needed to run as administrator.

As for navigating Dark Basic, I found it easiest to start a new project ( named it 'Easy' ) saved it, copy and pasted the code, and F5, compile run, that's what worked for me. Thanks for doing this CJH! This looks like it'll be a lot of fun!

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Re: Build Your Own Front End
« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2013, 06:56:12 pm »
This is great, thanks for this. Your comments throughout the code are very clear and easy to understand!! Look forward to following along.  ;D
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Re: Build Your Own Front End
« Reply #14 on: May 28, 2013, 10:01:12 pm »
Hi Chris

Code: [Select]
You can post code inside "code" tags
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« Reply #15 on: May 28, 2013, 11:11:45 pm »
Glad you pulled the hardcoded nonsense... I've been biting my tongue.  Keep it up. 
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« Reply #20 on: May 29, 2013, 10:22:25 am »
I'm really interested in this, having done some programming in the past, I've followed along quite easily.

What will get me into programming a front end through your tutorial, is I want to be able to set up a physical key, when it is on, a games list can be selected, games that I don't want the kids to play but I do... Think mortal kombat, street fighter etc, but when the key is off and safely in my pocket, that game list is not available, and the family friendly game list is the only one available.

Any chance you will be able to show how to do that? I haven't seen it in any front end so far.
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« Reply #23 on: May 29, 2013, 12:29:45 pm »
I am looking forward to the results with images, I'm definitely follow this topic :)
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« Reply #24 on: May 29, 2013, 04:00:46 pm »
I've already got a switch that is activated by a key, either momentary, or always on/off depending on the status of the key.
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Re: Build Your Own Front End
« Reply #26 on: May 31, 2013, 07:23:11 pm »
This is great! Thank you for doing this. I'm definitely watching, learning, and looking forward to updates.

I've always been vaguely interested in learning a programming language, but all I've ever thought I'd *really* like to program is my own frontend -- so this is rather seredipitous!  :cheers:
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Re: Build Your Own Front End
« Reply #30 on: June 05, 2013, 05:36:07 pm »
Thanks again CJ,

This is all coming together nicely. Just a note that there seems to be an error in the code (unless I'm doing something wrong of course) at:

font=Verdana Current_System_Name=1
font=Verdana hide mouse

I had to remove the font=Verdana from both of these lines or I would get errors when compiling.

This really is great and looking forward to continuing on.

Thanks  :cheers:

EDIT Just noticed that I had to remove the [] from those to allow them to be shown on the forum. :)
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« Reply #37 on: June 17, 2013, 01:09:23 am »
Thanks for doing what you had done, I was following pretty easy, which is why I hadn't posted anything.

I'll have to look into the syntax of the language and will continue along with what I wanted to attempt.

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« Reply #38 on: June 17, 2013, 08:11:23 am »
You know what helps get people engaged?  Screenies of what your coding is accomplishing. 
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