I keep making things out of checkboxes

Re:I keep making things out of checkboxes by mrspeaker on Monday October 11, 2021 @07:48AM (#28827270)

I remember someone had made an early iPhone game out of UI elements (around 2009 ish?). I thought it was such a cool idea, and spent a bunch of time messing around with "ui-elements-as-graphics". My favourite thing I came up with was sine-wave scrollbars: https://www.mrspeaker.net/dev/sinescrollbars/

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Re:I keep making things out of checkboxes by bryanbraun on Monday October 11, 2021 @08:50AM (#28827745)

Very clever!

It kind of reminds me of this pattern I saw that someone made out of range sliders (though not as animated): https://codepen.io/xdesro/pen/dyRNqqY

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Re:I keep making things out of checkboxes by mkr-hn on Monday October 11, 2021 @08:14AM (#28827447)

Castle of the Winds' characters, items, and monsters were made entirely out of Windows icons. You could crack it open in a resource editor and change most things. There's probably a lot more of these between your example and mine. Someone should make a list.

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Re:I keep making things out of checkboxes by tambourine_man on Monday October 11, 2021 @09:17AM (#28827987)

I get a blank screen…

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Re:I keep making things out of checkboxes by arrow7000 on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:04PM (#28830473)

Me too, but then I'm on Android.

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Re:I keep making things out of checkboxes by tambourine_man on Monday October 11, 2021 @02:01PM (#28831055)

Mac Safari, iPhone Safari, desktop Chrome…

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Re:I keep making things out of checkboxes by egypturnash on Monday October 11, 2021 @09:13PM (#28834900)

Works on Mac Safari for me.

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