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- From: andy@ajdean.demon.co.uk (Andy Dean)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga 1200 Internet bundle
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 23:12:33 +0000
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- In article <4flckn$87a@news.xs4all.nl>,
- yrozijn@xs4all.nl (Yvon Rozijn) wrote:
-
- >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.
-
- BOOPSI is a programming system, it is not an "out of the box" GUI
- solution. Packages like ClassAct do offer some useful classes, but MUI
- has a much richer set of gadgets, as well as online help, ARexx port,
- fully customisable imagery, ballon help, drag-and-drop... Other GUI
- systems may be more compact than MUI, but they offer less - it's
- simply a trade off.
-
-
- --
- Andy Dean, co-author of ImageStudio and TextureStudio for the Amiga
- Email: andy@ajdean.demon.co.uk WWW: http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~adean/
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