Richmond's Winter Project

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Here's a slightly pathetic (mainly because of all the yellow stuff) attempt at the first few words of the Gospel of John:
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Although having seen this:
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I OBVIOUSLY need to do a "bit" more work on my Ge'ez.

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[richmond62]

I will have to make a sort of chart to show the composition of the conjunct syllabics.

[richmond62]

Just implemented an alternative way to set up the vowel component of syllabics:
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I will apologise to Ge'ez purists about THAT thing:
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Let's call it a 'necessary fiction' to make text entry easier.

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This will involve editing previous code to take into account these alternates:
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These alternates have already been implemented:
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Alternate forms shown in the 2 windows in the top-right of the GUI.

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AND here we are, at the "final stretch" of the INITIAL glyph implementation.
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That is ALL of the Unicode glyphs implemented in terms of 'Point-and-click'.

I am attaching the stack here "as is".

Sheba.oxtstack.zip

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[richmond62]

Planning for the future:

1. I intend to release a series of standalone applications from the code base largely "as is" as a 'Beta 1': before that I have to implement:

1.1. An export page.

1.2. An explanatory page.

1.3. A credits page.

1.4. A side table explaining HOW one goes about getting conjunct syllabics to show up.

2. I then intend to implement the ability to use a computer's physical keyboard to type Ge'ez/Amharic directly into the field.

Educational Note.

If you have "followed along", and possibly downloaded my stack at some stage and looked at its code, you should have learnt about:

0. Cards

1. SWITCH conditionals

2. MouseEnter

3. MouseUp

4. MouseLeave

5. Using images as buttons

6. Leveraging xTalk's extremely powerful Unicode capabilities

7. Calling a mouse command from another image/button

8. Optical effects with images/buttons

9. Groups

And how, should you want to, construct a program to digitise a non-alphabetic writing system.

[richmond62]

On this project's Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61566453370468

(which I should be extremely grateful if you follow)

you will see that I have written:

expect a functional version in about 1 - 2 months.

You will see that I have finished almost exactly half of the initial project in almost exactly 4 weeks of my spare time.

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on mouseUp
   set the vis of img "rite" to false
   set the vis of img "mid" to true
   set the vis of img "lepht" to false
   set the POZZZ of stack "Sheba" to "MM"
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   put (item 3 of line 1 of the screenrects) into WIDD
   put (item 4 of line 1 of the screenrects) into HITE
   ---
   set the lockScreen to true
   switch the POZZZ of stack "Sheba"
      case "LL"
         set the left of stack "Sheba" to 10
         break
      case "RR"
         set the right of stack "Sheba" to (WIDD - 10)
         break
      case "MM"
         set the loc of stack "Sheba" to the screenLoc
         break
   end switch
   set the top of stack "Sheba" to 100
   set the lockScreen to false
   ---
end mouseUp