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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.

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.

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...

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.

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)!