home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- In a message dated 06 Feb 96, koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com wrote to All:
-
- >> would take BGUI over MUI any day. At least it's not as bloated as MUI,
-
- khf> Bloated? I never considered it that. muimaster.library is, lessee,
- khf> 156 Kb. Given what it does (check out the devkit!) I think that's
- khf> pretty darned good. You cannot get functionality for free.
-
- Oh, so MUI consists only of muimaster.library all of a sudden? No, you can't
- get functionality for free, but a helluva lot cheaper than MUI. With the risk
- of repeating myself, BGUI manages more or less the same in apx 100k.
-
- >> I sincerely hope that they do NOT use MUI or its descendents in a future
- >> Amiga OS.
-
- khf> Well, I respect your opinion, but on the other hand I sure hope they
- khf> *do* include it with the OS. It is much nicer than gadtools both from
- khf> a user and a programmer perspective (the later is a considerable
- khf> understatement actually), and its the first thing on the Amiga that
- khf> comes close to providing the sort of power to developers that's been
- khf> available on other platforms for a long time. The *last* thing the
- khf> Amiga needs is to make developing applications a pain in the neck.
-
- Look, I *KNOW* that it's a lot easier creating a GUI with MUI, but it's NOT
- the ONLY way to do it you know! I only had a quick look at how MUI-GUI's was
- constructed, but it seemed VERY similar to the way BGUI operates, with
- horizontal and vertical groups, weights and stuff. And it IS a god damn relief
- to create a GUI that way.
-
- khf> The whole Amiga market is teetering on the brink right now, and we want
- khf> to shove it back to land, not over the cliff. Not to mention that MUI
- khf> almost transparently provides a bunch of features that all apps should
- khf> be doing anyway, but usually don't otherwise because its a pain.
-
- Face it pal, MUI isn't the "Amiga-saviour" you want it to be. The concept is
- great, no doubt about that, but first of all we should wait for the next gen
- Amiga to appear. Then we'll have the horsepower to (hopefully) run things like
- MUI/BGUI without any slowdown. Hopefully though, MUI/BGUI will be obsolete by
- the time the PowerAmiga hits the street, and something just as good (or better)
- will be present in the OS.
-
- khf> Even if the application consistency provided by MUI was its only
- khf> benefit I'd still consider it useful.
-
- Application consistency?! Between MUI programs, yes, until you start to
- configure each app to have its own backgrounds, buttons, etc, etc. That's not
- exactly what I call application consistency. No, MUI has way too many
- unnecessary bells'n'whistles for my taste. Yet, beneath all those cosmetic
- niceties it's still the inside that counts, and that's where MUI really fails
- in my book.
-
-
- /\ _
- /\ \// Peter Bornhall bornhall@karkis.canit.se
- /_ \// -======================================================-
- /_\\//_\ Amiga, boldly going where no computer has gone before!
-
-
-