Woopsi

Woopsi
File:Woopsi.jpg
General
Author	Ant 512 (Antony Dzeryn)
Type	Development Libraries
Version	1.3
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2011/07/21
Links
1.3 & Demo Download
Website
Source

Woopsi is a Nintendo DS GUI library for rapidly creating user interfaces for homebrew software. Modelled after the AmigaOS windowing system.

It is a BSD-licenced GUI toolkit for the Nintendo DS, written in C++. It features a 2D graphics library with fast clipping routines and a full suite of UI components, including text boxes, scrolling lists, buttons, windows, etc. It can be used to produce everything from simple GUIs to full-blown window managers.

Features

• Support for multiple windows.
• Full set of components of the user interface.
• The elements (windows) can be dragged.
• Windows without frames.
• Debug mode.
• Optimized application to draw and erase.
• System events.
• Automatic application to collect garbage.
• Complete API to build new applications.
• Different types of fonts supported.
• Oriented design to easily adapt to other programs in C++.
• Simple API for rapid creation of a graphical user interface.
• FIFO multitasking, each application runs at a time.
• Unicode strings encoded with UTF-8.
• Support for Windows applications (font2font, bmp2font, etc).

Installation

It requires the latest devkitPro and do one of the following things as operating system:

• Windows - 2 methods available. Use the Install.bat found in the folder or copy the folder Woopsi libwoopsi to C:\devkitPro.
• Linux - Same as the second option of Windows, copy the folder libwoopsi to C:\devkitPro.
• MacOSX - Compile what is in the folder Woopsi.

User guide

To test the installation:

Open a command prompt and CD to the template folder (relative to the document) and type:

make

Open the /template/Release/template.nds ROM file in a DS emulator or copy it to your flash cart and load it up.

Media

Woopsi demo v0.99.3 (Cid2Mizard)

Changelog

V1.3

Fixes:

• Label and TextBox are more efficient when rendering text changes.
• Removed unused GLYPH_MAP_SIZE constant from fontbase.h.
• Header file in template moved into include directory.
• Animation::play() stops if there are no frames to play.
• Animation::getCurrentFrame() returns NULL if there are no frames.
• Animation::getCurrentBitmap() returns NULL if there are no bitmaps.
• Fixed memory leak when deleting SDL framebuffer.
• Removed extraneous globals from woopsifuncs.cpp.
• WoopsiString::subString() passes the correct arguments to the WoopsiString constructor.
• StringIterator::moveTo() ignores attempts to move to negative indices.
• Improved use of DMA hardware.
• Updated C# tools.
• Removed Visual Studio files.

New Features:

• Added WoopsiTimer::isRunning().
• Added SuperBitmap::setX().
• Added SuperBitmap::setY().
• Added SuperBitmap::getX().
• Added SuperBitmap::getY().
• Added FontConverter, a winforms UI for font2font.

Credits

Coding and design - Antony Dzeryn.

Testing, technical advice, other contributions - Jeff Laing.

PALib independence - Steven Harrison.

Testing and suggestions - John Buxton, Chase, Leonelhs, Carpfish.

Unicode work and libfreetype integration - Olivier Binda (Lakedaemon).

Testing and gadget contributions - Mark Adamson.

Simian Zombie logo - John Clay.

Thanks to - The devKitPro team.

External links

• Official website - http://woopsi.org
• Bitbucket - https://bitbucket.org/ant512/woopsi