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# CrystalAPI
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## Concept:
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the Crystal API will be a set of functions and objects that make it relatively easy for anyone to develop an application
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for the crystal operating system.
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this means that anyone with the API documentation and source code can easily make a program that follows the
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### current features:
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as of 24/01/23 the API allows for the following:
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- standard input (String)
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- standard output with regular or coloured text
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- detecting individual keystrokes
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- access to some basic system information
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### short term planned features:
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- a greater set of OS information that the program can access
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- this will also include a module that the OS and other programs can read from to change the active state of the OS
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- this means that different applications can communicate with one another to share information.
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- better support for coloured / formatted text
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- applications should be able to control when the user can enter keystrokes
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- this will have to be implemented in shell.rs with the text input so that the user cannot backspace text
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that has been written by the system or the application.
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- text sandbox mode
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- this would essentially give the program more direct access to the vga buffer through some kind of wrapper function
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/ class that would grant the ability to make a much more flexible interface.
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- the main benefit of this would be the ability for a developer to make simple 2d games by using characters on the vga
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buffer as pixels
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