I want to make a game like http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/the_red_button for the TI calcs. I will be planning on using DCS to help program it, unfortunately I do not know DCS that well. Could someone please help me with this.

Some things I would like to do for this game are:

The very top (8 pixels maybe) I would like to make it kinda like DocDE6, except the big buttons for loading and saving. Instead I want it to have a button on the top right that when you click on it, it will make a small menu like DocDE6's about menu that will give you some options as to save, load, something slightly random (maybe scene selection).

I think I will be using 4 8*8 sprites for the button when they are big, and just one 8*8 sprite for the small buttons (like when they split into many buttons) maybe even 4*4 sprites (if I can do that, if not just make an 8*8 sprite with a small middle filled) for the "Mwahahah, now lets see you press it loser" part.

I want to make this as much like the original as I can.


Thats about all I can think of right now. I hope it made sense. Also, usually I am rather particular about you all giving code but I am fine with it for this one.

Ah, fun stuff. As far as I know, I'm the only person to really write code (aside from Kerm) with the DCS GUI. You can see that project here, for the gory details.
DCS uses a GUI stack to handle all that stuff- you push elements on which describe GUI elements (such as buttons or text), and the system will take care of rendering them, updating values, etc.

Here's a GUI 'Hello world!' as an example. It demonstrates the basic usage of the GUI system by creating a small window titled "Hello world!", containing the text "Hello, world!" and a button to close the program. I make no guarantees of this code actually working, and I'm omitting the file headers and such in the interest of brevity.

Code:

If you're doing any proper logic, you'll probably need some saferam. Be sure you pay attention to the memory areas used by the GUI system. For the complete list of GUI APIs and types, go have a look at the DCS wiki.

My own thoughts on the project: could be interesting, and you'll likely have to do some clever things in the interest of memory consumption, if you really do end up using the DCS GUI system. It might be easier to write your own special-purpose code for the game's UI, though..