The Jack for AmigaOS news thread

Hi,

A real quick post from me, development of Jack is still on-going, I have posted a little blog on the website that I run alongside the software.

http://jackforamigaos.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/jack-mui-style/

Gonna post more pictures in a week or two, atm I am spending all my precious time actually doing something constructive - i.e. coding.

Nice, using MUI Royale you can make an excellent file manager for Jack

@DjRikky
To not recreate a wheel with file-manager and to not make users to understand what every button at top do, maybe worth just to reuse Filers default top bar, with the same icons (and you at least no need to think how to do it "ok", as the way as it done in filler, and in dopus5 by default pretty "ok" for all imho).

Will be intersting to check how it all will works in MUI.

ps. What mean on your page:

Quote:

What mui can't handle ? Transparency ?

@kas1e

Its more of a file browser with a few options such as delete, rename, get information, rather than a Filer replacement.
Its the same one that is already found in Jack, but in more 'familiar' surroundings rather than my custom toolkit.

If borderless, alpha-transparent windows are possible with MUI then great, however I recall a thread regarding FlipClock where the topic came up saying it wasn't possible.

@all

New Screenshots of Jack given the Mui-Style.

http://jackforamigaos.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/new-screenshots/

Looks good, however i will implement a better alignment of icons

Whereabouts in the interface?

Here:

http://jackforamigaos.wordpress.com/2 ... ots/jack_screencapture29/

The boing image are not allineated with the text

You might also remove the borders for that buttons

http://jackforamigaos.wordpress.com/2 ... ots/jack_screencapture36/

All cosmetic of course, but imho the old Hollywood interface was better on this specific aspect

Thats all MUI's responsibility.

App-Store: The boing image is straight from AISS, nothing non-standard, standard MUI text alignment. Looks fine to me.

Prefs:I want it to be clear that they are clickable, standard MUI buttons you see there.

If he means the boing balls on the buttons on the right, they look lousey as the image is centred. I would either left align the image or drop the boing balls.

NB by image I mean the combined boingball and text label.

I see, okay, I thought samo79 was on about the vertical alignment, horizontal easy to do, thanks for reporting.

@djrikky
I think samo mean just that:
http://kas1e.mikendezign.com/temp/jack_screencapture29_mock.png

@djrikky

I meant exactly what kas1e say, see his mockup

It was a two second fix.

Evening, been working tireless on Jack again tonight and over the weekend. I present a few screenshots of the App-Store from my work over the last couple of days.

Fully Working New/Recent page tab, minus user rating numbers found on next image. Edit: And oh yeah, I have sinced removed the double scrollbars... took me ages to notice this!

http://www.lakemarketingandevents.co. ... k/Jack_ScreenCapture2.png

Downloads page tab with introduction of using rating numbers, and now the Download button has changed into a 'Install Now'.. which incidentally does nothing atm.

http://www.lakemarketingandevents.co. ... k/Jack_ScreenCapture3.png

Now shows that I have voted for (or more accurately the last person who logged-in) on a few downloads in the App-Store with the Rate button disabling accordingly.

http://www.lakemarketingandevents.co. ... k/Jack_ScreenCapture4.png

Apart from two buttons in the toolbar, Install Now and Check?, all the rest function as would be expected across all page tabs.

Good!
I hope you can make the classic WarpOS-version install and work correctly :)

Looking better with every update!

Made some fantastic progress on Jack today on my day off and yesterday evening. The App-Store is now practically complete, I even had enough time to expand the Arexx Port.

It is now possible for developer applications to talk to the AppStore via Arexx to perform various tasks:

* Determine whether a specific item has been installed by the user
* Manual query of which version they have downloaded
* Download from the AppStore, if the user already has an item on their list and a newer version exists on the AppStore, the newer is automatically downloaded and potentially...
* Install them too, of course this depends whether the downloaded item has an Install script that Jack can actually find.

Full Arexx Documentation will be supplied for Developers take advantage of this feature.

It's time for Developers to start creating Installation scripts again rather than leaving it up to users!

Cool, looking forward to try it

@Djrikky

Well, you start to make it amiga native, mui, arexx&co. Seems it will worth of checking indeed (just plz do not add any PR kind of windowses, there is not so many amiga users that you need to add any kind of mass-media PR into program itself).