Thursday, September 14, 2017

new system of things - how v2.0.3 is shaping up...

The VM

First and foremost, The VM has been redesigned, like the rest of v2.0.3, it features standardized UI elements, with support for themes...

notable enhancements are the new, mouse-ready menus at the top, and the enhanced post-VMSYSHALT mode, that tries to be more helpful than waiting for the user to press enter...


Launcher & the new mini-tools.


SBTCVM v2.0.3's launcher is a far cry from v2.0.2's it features a multi-window environment of smaller tools,
such as Scribble: a sketch tool that started as a test for mouse coordinates, and even SBTCVM's scrolling credits.

Like Several of v2.0.3's utilities, launcher has also been redesigned around a resizable UI, meaning you can resize the window as you wish. Other utilities with this feature include, helpview, imageview, & codeview/textview.






SBTCVM now has support for themes, and in select utilities, different backgrounds changeable on-the-fly.


SBTCVM's new dark theme, for those who prefer darker UIs...











Help!


SBTCVM now has a unified help system. called helpview, this nifty program offers quite a bit of it.











Fileview


The new Fileview program is far more useful than its v2.0.2 predecessor, featuring a redesigned UI, right-click menus, and even single, and dual pane view modes.






In Conclusion.


SBTCVM's other utilities, including the new calculator, all have been enhanced to match the new UI style, complete with drop-down menus, and theme support.

The release schedule for v2.0.3 is "when its done", but you are quite welcome to try out the latest code over on GitHub.  That aside, v2.0.3 already makes huge leaps in unifying SBTCVM's suite of utilities, as well as vastly improving the User interface side of things...

Stay tuned for more updates on SBTCVM v2.0.3!