[Coco] DW4 - GUI Feedback

[Aaron Wolfe]

They say a picture is worth 1000 words...

I put three screenshots of the "Disk to DSK" wizard in the gallery,
they are at the bottom of the picture section

https://sites.google.com/site/drivewire4/home/gallery?pli=1

-Aaron



On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>>Actually, the current GUI runs on the PC side, not the CoCo. I have
>>>thought about some CoCo side software for this, but hadn't explored
>>>the idea too far. It would certainly be possible to write a DECB
>>>program that automated the CoCo side of things. I've thought about
>>>trying to make the DW4 features like virtual serial and networking
>>>available in DECB somehow as well, but since OS9 is my main playground
>>>I haven't made any real progress with that.
>>
>> Oh, not DECB...I'm afraid that's no use to me.
>>
>> I never got into OS9. I've had too many false starts with OS9 that I quickly
>> lost interest.
>>
>> I guess I could just write a short DECB program that loads the RAMDISK and
>> gives me a GUI interface for transferring the disks.
>>
>
> The DW4 GUI will support making disks from .dsks and vice versa in
> DECB.  On the PC, you say "I want to make a .dsk".  It prompts you for
> the filename and tells you to insert the source disk and type "BACKUP
> 0 TO 1" on the CoCo.  The file is created and the PC says "We're done,
> do you want to do this again".  That sort of thing.
>