YourStartup UserInterface(YS UI) public repository

dev (/team()) dev0: stephan kammel

version 0.9.8.7 time of creation(TOC): may - december 2022

intention: offering an easy to use software, to handle file management, to assist others in their projects, to draw, to capture ideas and the daily necessities of life.

YS UI is a versatile software designed to help users in their projects or hobbies. It started as a tool to open files and programs fast with a single click via a button. Since then it has grown quite a bit. At the current stage it is quite easy to use via mouse and a few key bindings. Be advised though, element dragging requires a middle mouse button to be performed and there is no alternative method at the moment to move objects around over the canvas surface.

Every element on the canvas follows the same principles, it can be moved, its appearance on the canvas can be altered, it can be deleted and it can be generated with a click on a button or via pressing a hotkey.

Files and URLs can be bound to elements and afterwards opened with a single click. It is easy to arrange all the required elements on the screen.

Thanks to the possibility to alter colors as you like, it is possible to have a transparent or mostly transparent or rock solid colored window. You could use YS UI as color overlay for other programs, if there colors are to bright for your eyes f.e. or if you try to avoid accidental clicks, you could move it over other windows and change the backgroundcolor to a color with an alpha value of just 1. Clicks won't pass through, but you can see anything. as mentioned earlier you could use it as a filter to change the color of other software or visual information on your screen. the dimming of light intensities can be quite relaxing for the eyes. Change the design of YS UI to your liking. You can alter button size, colors, border thickness, border radius, background images and colors, font colors, font size, font familiy.

YS UI has various drawing features and it is very easy to generate quite diverse pictures with just a few clicks.

YS features various elements with different functions and features. They all have in common that they aim to provide assistance for day to day trivialities, duties or hobby or project related activities. Most of them are still in early development stages, they work, but they are more prototype than finished elements atm.

in terms of license: if an existing license model covers and features the following points or is very close to their intentions, it is likely that such a license model will be chosen

license concept idea: 1. free to use software, but with a payoption for users or enterprises who want to pay if they like the software and are happy with it 2. acknowledgement of authorship and extended authorship 3. if advertising is part of a fork, an application concept or of a plugin element as an addition to ys ui, the following design principles must apply: - the element with the ad must be closable, resizeable and moveable, the user has to be able to control the intensity of the influencing methods, be they sounds, light or other. 4. free in terms of distribution and free to use 5. no warranty for further development at the moment, no support possible at the moment (this may change if more people join the project) 6. source code may be studied, but not used without permission 7. ?

use concept: a. dragable graphical containers, right click closing of any dragable graphical ui container, dragging with middleclick b. recoloring with leftclick while color feature element is invoked, resizing while placement and design element is invoked c. goal is, that all programms, files or image files can be opened with a single click, the binding to the clickable surface should be resetable easy, the element containing the clickable surface should be deleteable e. all surface elements of YS UI should be redesignable by the user, meaning every color, every textitem etc. should be subject to the will of the user in regards to appearance and visual feeling

handling: 1. download the latest version zip file, unpack them, enter the folder structure, until you find /bin/debug or /bin/release, within, there is an .exe named YSUI.exe, double click to run 2. currently this application concept runs only on windows, tested under win 11, win 10 and win 8, since i developed this for my brother, who has a win 11 and a win8 machine, it has/had to run on win8, that is why i choose net.core 4.61., which is not relevant to keep for all variants or versions of this software 3. canvas pictures can be taken with F2 savemode, there will be a folder /bin/debug/files/pictures or /bin/release/files/pictures, there you can access the pictures, there is an issue with the picture format, they are sometimes stretched after canvas resizing 4. if you want do develop or bugfix, open the solution file(check if debug mode is debug), f.e. in project version YourStartUp_v_1_14_NET_4_6 it would be YourStartUp_v_1_14_NET_4_6/yourstartup.sln, in YSUI it would be YSUI/YSUI.sln 5. developed in wpf and c#, using free version of ms visual studio 2019 ((thx to ms for a free ide.)

overview:

• YS UI and some of its elements allow file drop and/or image file drop

• the general ram usage is very low atm

• you can put many many pictures within one instance of YS UI

• you can layer objects via z-index, you can rotate them, you can delete them with a single right click

• there is a z-indexer element which allows traversing the z-level of the surface, you can switch between ranged and exclusive visibility of z-layers

• some objects can be initialized with custom dimensional size values

• shapes can be saved and loaded with positions and rotation, but not yet with colors, still working on that

• most elements can be saved with positions, but not yet with rotation, colors or contents, still working on that

• the project is in alpha stage, up until now, intensive testing was not possible, i identified and fixed most of the bugs standing in the way of a functional or in a way functional prototype

• the project was up until now only tested on 3-4 different machines

• if you have a laptop, use an external mouse, otherwise it will not be possible, to use ys ui to its full extend, since it needs the middle mouse button and i did not yet developed an alternative handling method for hardware with no mouse

• read the info page, hit F1 to open it, i try to keep it up to date in terms of keys and key bindings

• i did not yet had the time to update all tooltips

• avoid version from december 4th if you want to work with ys ui because save and load functionality don't work in that version, it is quite experimental and i am not finished integrating the new ideas and solutions into the code.