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- From: chrisw@eagle.ais.net (Chris Wicklein)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.introduction,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
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- Date: 1 Apr 1996 23:12:51 GMT
- Organization: American Information Systems, Inc.
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- : Where on earth did you get that strange idea from? MWB is the one that really
- : forces us to use a particular colour scheme. It's NewIcons that gets us away
- : from that idea NOT MWB!!!
-
- This relates to my primary problem with MUI. I've just tried
- installing MUI and found that the bitmapped replacement gadgets assume a
- MWB palette, which I do not have and do not plan to as I'm happy with the
- color-matching of NI. There seems to be some contradiction in a package
- which emphisizes user-choice in GUI construction requiring a particular
- palette. Actually, I guess that's not a fair criticism of MUI, which
- more accurately just doesn't addres the problem of WB color at all. But
- here's what I'd like in the next OS: rather than color GUI elements by
- pen no., abstract the concept of pens from application-level programming
- and have each (objective) gadget carry it's own color information and let
- the system perform all color matching. It would be nice to have a screen
- mode that permitted all colors to be displayed at once and made
- hard-coding pens practical, but the graphic display is too slow for
- this. I won't run WB at more than 32 colors on a 1200 with 030/28.
-
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- chris wicklein
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