Interested in LCARS?

[jacdelad]

For my next project (GameScout, library system for my thousands of boardgames (I can't find what I'm looking for anymore...)) I'm doing something in LCARS-design (which is planned to run on my Raspi 400). Are some of you interested in getting this, like in a module? I am in an early stage and moduling it seems possible, but if nobody is interested I won't invest time for that and do it "hard coded". And be aware, that this is still in an early state and I'm mostly working on the Ribbon.

[CDXbow]

You really can't do an LCARS interface without the correct font.
There is a pack of, I believe open source fonts, for Star Trek here
https://www.opendesktop.org/p/998508

I've had a few goes at this. For an early TOS LCARS you need round buttons and some of those sweeping graphics.
I tried a few ways to do round buttons but the only code I could get to work/look right was by Said, his Canvas based
custom buttons.
https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewto ... 12&t=62198

Note - I only have used the standard button with rounded corners.
There is a lot of other functionality I have not tried.

I turned it into an include, CustomButtons.pbi that used his code to make 7 simple
rounded button similar to the Star Trek LCARS in form & color

I've put examples up at Github. https://github.com/CD-Xbow/LCARS/
The first is simply 7 round colored buttons and the second adds a graphic and the font.
I think it's getting to be a pretty good facsimile.



i thought about doing the graphic elements programmatically and there did seem to be a few ways to do it, however it took < 30 seconds to make the graphic, so expediency won over elegance. I'm going to keep working on it, adding resize and some more functionality.

[jacdelad]

Looks nice.

I never got a reply, so I never felt to urge publish an update. I too include the right font plus frames are created dynamically and so on...

[CDXbow]

You should post them, I'd like to have a look.
I got interested years ago but never made any progress. I got interested again after building a Picorder during covid.
https://squaredwave.com/wiki/index.php?title=Picorder
I thought I'd have a go at doing software for it with PB, unfortunately I failed, but I kept an interest in doing an LCARS interface.

[jacdelad]

The problem is, since nobody showed interest I only did what I needed fory project. Plus, I didn't care about the code. I need to beautify it and such. For now, I need to complete other projects first. But I'll post it when I have something worth posting. Until then...expect everything (including the Spanish inquisition)!