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- From: Steve Powell <Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: MUI
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 96 16:54:48 GMT
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- In article <singh-0404952044330001@pool5-028.wwa.com> singh@wwa.com (singh) writes:
- > In article <4h22lr$1d8@ns.hookon.be>, Christophe Heereman
- > <Paul.Heereman@hookon.be> wrote:
- >
- > > Hi,
- > >
- > > who can tell how MUI works,what it does,which pro and contra it has,why
- > > it's better (?) than GUI,etc.If you know URLs or anything else on the net,
- > > please send them to me.I want to know everything about MUI! thanks.
- > >
- [snip]
- > It beats me, but all in all, after using MUI on my brother's 2000/020 it
- > makes me feel sorry -- I always thought the amiga community was the one
- > group that took care not to make older machines obsolete. The "hey if
- > they user feels the interface is kludgy, he or she needs more horsepower"
- > theory is way too MicroSoft/Intel for my liking. :(
-
- Sounds to me, like you have a problem with technology advancement in
- general! Programmers, I think, like to use MUI as it enables them to
- include features in programs that would otherwise take months of hard
- work to implement, if they could be done at all.
-
- It is difficult to compare MUI with much else, as nothing else has *all*
- the functionality built in to MUI. MUI allows an incredeble amount of
- user customisation for ANY MUI application, and the programmer doesn't
- have to worry about any of it.
-
- Even the big Amiga developers can't give you the same amount of user
- customisation in their applications as a PD programmer can offer in a
- quick MUI shareware utility. If you find this hard to believe, just get
- hold of a good commercial application, (I'm hesitant to point at one
- *one* application here, as it would be unfair to that particular
- product.) and try to make it run on a Public screen with a background
- of your choosing, fonts of your chosing, gadget types of your chosing
- etc. etc.
-
- Do you see the point? MUI can enable a whole host of products to exist
- that otherwise probably wouldn't have been written by the authors
- without it. I realise that I'm going to get flamed here for saying
- these things, but I feel they needed saying, MUI isn't 'The spawn of the
- Devil', as some Amigans would have you believe. It isn't perfect,
- nothing is, but there sure as hell isn't any direct competition for it
- currently. No other current Amiga development system gives YOU the
- chance to *easily* implement the degree of flexibility that MUI can
- endow on an application that utilises it. With any other product the
- user is limited, to a far greater extent, in the way the application is
- presented to them. If a particular developer doesn't include the
- ability, or doesn't have time to find out how to, then that application
- doesn't do that particular 'thing'.
-
- THe user may not have the processor needed to fully take advantage of
- the facilities that MUI enables you to try, but that isn't really a
- reflection on MUI, more on the users particular set up. MUI makes
- things possible that weren't even thought of, at the time the Amiga was
- invented, and it makes them relatively easy for a lot of programmers to
- impliment. Anyway, try it, if you don't like what it does, don't use
- it! If you find a genuine bug, tell the author, if it's a bug in MUI
- I'll bet he'll be real keen to fix it! More likely It'll be a bug in
- the application that is using MUI, again tell the author... Nicely!
-
-
- An example that wouldn't hurt, could be MCP vs MCX, both these excellent
- programs offer a similar level of functionality. (I'm not going to get
- into which one I think is best.) But have a play and see which one is
- most easily configured? One, the author decided a GUI would make his
- product too big and found an exeptable method by getting it to read the
- products tool types. The author of the other one decided something
- similar, so produced a separate MUI fronted prefs program with full
- on-line help. Both programs are truly excellent but one of them is much
- easier to configure, your choice. MUI isn't needed, but it's nice, I
- think!
-
- [fx] ducks into concrete bunker, wearing fire proof suit, helmet and
- gloves...
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