Progress - logdate 20250505

[gbWilly]

Long day today as it is almost 4 in the morning here and I've been coding and such most of the day.

I have been focusing on the style to use for the guide today (and yesterday) and left the backport of Gambas 3.19.6 for what it is (for now). And now that I finally have the style I'm happy with for the guides, I also coded a lot on my editor today, so guide making can be done from gbEditor, using the uniform styles for all.

I made styles for all headers and paragraphs, for 'Gambas code' boxes, Terminal boxes, 'Background Info' boxes, 'Good Practice' boxes and Warning boxes (inspired on what I used to do in the How To Gambas guides). Now that gbEditor has all these styles incorporated, I tested it by making a short introduction with a foreword and the conventions used in guides explained.

Below and impression of the new header style and background color.

GambOSLearning.png

I plan to take some parts from 'How to Gambas: Buidling GUI applications' to build up the first basic guide. This will make creating a first guide in short term more realistic, as it is more a selection of already written material, that I will need to rewrite a little and screenshot renewed. But it should be a good foundation before getting started with coding the first simple applications that will be part of GambOS desktop and follow up guides.

Focus now will go on making a new .iso, so some testing and proofreading can be done, while I figure out the backport, write guides and code a software center. I hope by tomorrow evening I'll have something for test team to play with.

Enjoy...