Changes

The Graphic User Interface (GUI) of FutureOS presents the user with three sections: the icon section (upper half of screen), the file window (lower half of screen) and the message line base (the two bottom lines of the screen). It  The GUI appears directly after starting FutureOS, but can also be used by applications. The user can browse through directories of discs and hard-disc partitions. The size of the text window is fixed, due to this the space needed to display 64 different file names can be displayed at once (this equals one complete directory of a data of , system or IBM formatted disc f.e.). Instead of scrolling, Using the keys SHIFT and CONTROL you can browse page by page through the used directoriesof devices. A graphical mouse pointer is used to select devices, functions or files; this pointer can be controlled with nearly all of the pointer based HID devices (joystick, mouse, trackball, light-pen, grafpad etc.) available for the CPC.  Applications can call the GUI of the OS; and the user returns to the application using the OK icon. The icons are fixed, therefore the layout remains stable throughout its use and on every CPC using FutureOS.  In SPARtan mode the GUI only displays icons which can be used directly. Unused icons will be hidden. In this mode the GUI is more easy to use and you see a bigger part of the wallpaper (if loaded).