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- From: jasonb@cs.uwa.edu.au (Jason S Birch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: MUI 3.2
- Date: 6 Feb 96 10:54:23 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- ebcnklu@ebc.ericsson.se (Kristofer Lund) writes:
- >And.. correct me if I'm wrong, isn't it so that the minimum
- >installation of MUI is just the libraries, which can be located in
- >libs: as well as MUI:Libs... someone?
-
- The only things MUI *needs* are the libraries in MUI:Libs, and the
- only thing it needs to be able to find them is for MUI:Libs to be
- added to the LIBS: assign. Also, you could - if you really wanted -
- delete the libraries there that your apps never used.
-
- MUI apps open those libraries using a normal OpenLibrary() call, so
- the libraries can actually be anywhere that OpenLibrary() will find
- them - memory, the current directory, or LIBS:. You can remove the MUI:
- assign if you like - that's only there to make moving the whole MUI
- installation and updating to future versions easier.
-
- >The Win95 GUI is ages behind MUI, it is not resizeable, not
- >font-sensitive not bla bla..
-
- This is actually a good point - I don't know *any* other major platform
- that has resizeable, font-sensitive GUIs as a common feature. MUI, and
- the other layout libraries out there for the Amiga, actually put it in
- *front* of the other guys - we're not playing catchup. All the
- programming I've seen on the Mac and under Windows, and that I've done
- myself, involved counting pixels to place gadgets just like under
- GadTools.
-
- > /\ \// Kristofer Lund gann@canit.se
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