ByeOS

Gonna be honest, I forgot to work on this for a while, so I kinda forgot what I was doing. Here’s what I remember and what I ended up working on today:

• the “welcome” page now loads a html file using the fetch api rather than iframes
  this is actually a worse way to do it but I was getting inconsistent window grabbing so uhh yeah I wanted to fix that (I did that last month shortly after my last ship)
• the welcome page now how an FAQ!!! it doesnt answer many questions but it looks nicer now (I did that today)
• taskbar has a very rough placeholder in it (I did that last month)

What I want to do is make a better way of managing windows so I’m gonna have to write a bunch of invisible things but hopefully I’ll get the taskbar actually working.

This took FAR too long… but!

Finally, a window! A lot of this was fiddling with a “shadow dom” (a new concept for me) containing an iFrame. Is this overkill? could i just use an iframe? yeah. idk, i guess it just turned out like this. Time to design like a “welcome” screen now, or maybe the taskbar im not sure

implemented some wallpaper stuff, it can either be a solid colour or an image filling the screen.
the ui automatically adjusts based on the window size (important because i might add fixed screen resolutions in the future for some fun stuff) now.
i also added something that will be the taskbar in the future… yeah its based on Windows 9x lol
i also implemented a cursor, but I’m just reusing an asset from a previous project.

what i’m going to do next is adding a window and the logic surrounding that. i’ve done something like this before but i’m going to implement it from scratch

Built the boilerplate for ByeOS (i.e. the element where all the windows are going to be put), but really I spent most of my time on the bluescreen for when there’s no javascript