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- From: i.einman@genie.com (IAN J. EINMAN)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: MUI 3.2 vs. BGUI
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 01:38:45 GMT
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- Sender: i.einman@genie.com (IAN J. EINMAN)
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- >>If I
- remember correctly, BGUI needs a separately loaded BGUI library for each
- loaded application, that's not a very nice thing.
-
-
- You don't remember/know correctly. You cannot share the library base between tasks,
- each taks needs to call OpenLibrary itself. This is how 99.9999% of all applications
- do it anyway.
-
- The OpenLibrary does not load from disk if the library is already loaded.
- 14 programs can use BGUI and share a 120K library. It is no different from any
- other library.
-
-
- >>Using BGUI is just stupid.
-
- People who make such opinionated comments are just stupid.
-
- With BGUI, I can make an application that INCLUDES everything the user needs
- with my archive. The user does not need to PAY anyone but ME to have the
- full functionality of my program. I have little desire to release small
- 40K utilities that require a 1 meg package to run, and still cannot be fully
- utilized without the user paying someone else for a package. Perhaps I'd like
- to sell MY shareware products, and not someone else's first.
-
- PC users think people that use Amigas are stupid. Are we?
-
- Or maybe there are alternatives that are appropriate to use in different situations.
- BGUI is a VERY stable and reliable library, and the author constantly adds to it
- and immediately fixes any errors that do arise.
-
- There are still a LOT of people who do NOT like MUI, even if it's only 20% of Amiga users.
- The people exist. BGUI can simply be a layout library that improves the look and fell
- of your program, and makes programming a lot easier. Users are less likely to bitch about
- it because: they don't have to pay for it, and it takes up little space on their disk.
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