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- From: yrozijn@xs4all.nl (Yvon Rozijn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga 1200 Internet bundle
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 18:30:47 GMT
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- Andy Dean (andy@ajdean.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : If Amiga Technologies are to attract new developers to the Amiga, which
- : is essential if the Amiga is to survive, AT must make it as easy as
- : possible for developers to write software for the machine. A new
- : developer is not going to be tempted to write a new program (or port
- : from another platform) if they only have GadTools to create their
- : GUI.
- :
- : The modern GUI should support tabbed groups, font sensitivity,
- : localisation, drag and drop etc... and to do this with GadTools would
- : simply take too much of the development time away from writing/porting
- : the application itself. Now, I'd personally like to see major applications
- : coming to the Amiga using something like MUI, rather than no major
- : applications because GadTools remains the only option.
-
- There *is* another option - BOOPSI. There are several BOOPSI gadgets
- available that have many of the possibilities that MUI has. The ClassAct
- set contains a number of very useful BOOPSI classes. And there are other
- BOOPSI classes available in the PD domain.
-
- Yvon.
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