James T. Klik: Difference between revisions

Look through the window ... See that background with alpha-blending and my anti-aliased fonts ? See the corner of the screen ? That's Klik's Start Menu! Hmm, no. I have no 'programs' folder, as i can't load 'programs' for now, but here's a 16-items list of test cases for my WidgetToolKit. Or maybe you prefer a [[What order should I make things in?|different style]].

If you're wondering how you'll implement the 'start button' and its menu right from the start, you're probably getting things by the wrong end... When you want to make a word processing program, you don't ask yourself how you will have icons for "save", "print", etc. in a bar that you can move across your window. You first ask yourself how you will represent text, how you will implement basic operations like extracting text from one paragraph and put text into another one, how you will deal with embedded objects like pictures, etc. or how you will store your text efficiently on a file. Basically, you'll work yourself like that slow horse in the pack if you don't have a good kernel with [[What order should iI make things in|a different approach]] up first.