FishOS

Today I added the handle and close button to the welcome window. When the close button is clicked, a bubble popping sound is played. The close button is also a dead fish. The one thing I couldn’t get to work was the open window button, and I don’t have any ideas for why it isn’t working. Google also doesn’t seem to know, but I think that’s ok, because I wanted the welcome screen to only show once anyway. Next I’ll be doing the style sheet, and then hopefully the first app will be partially completed by the end of tomorrow.

Woah, did some Javascript for the first time…. scary…. Anyways, got the top bar working a lot better with displaying the actual time, not whatever time I put in the placeholder. Also, I added a sound effect for when the os logo is clicked (bubbles!!). I’m starting to get the hang of HTML and CSS I think, so I’m hoping to add a little more customization soon. Has anyone watched The Amazing Digital Circus? If so, you know which fish I’m hoping to incorporate into a “finances” app in the next couple of days.

Hooray! Made a bunch of progress with my webOS, including:

• Finishing the boot screen
• Adding a (lovely) moving background
• Started work on the top bar, which I’ll probably finish tomorrow evening
  I also added the Github repository to the project info. My immediate to-do list now includes:
• Finish the top bar
• Figure out how to add the sound effect for the mouse (which I suspect will be a challenge)
  Super happy with how this is going!

Very clumsily made my way through making the boot screen (or at least a first draft of the boot screen) with my nonexistent HTML and CSS skills. I am…. learning so much. It took a while to figure out how to access an image from the folder, but I got it eventually. Also, I added a cool font I found. I’ll probably change it later because it doesn’t really fit the style, but it’s fine for now. Next I’m going to try to set the background to some kind of gif or video (not sure how/if it’s possible so might not work) to make the background look like the bottom of a pond. Another idea I had (no idea how to do this either) is for a bubble sound to play when you click anywhere. I’ll try to get the boot screen done tomorrow, then off to the next step! (Btw I hope you all appreciate my artistic talent)