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- From: dnavas@oracle.uucp (David Navas)
- Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:26:21 GMT
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- In article <stefanb.722261222@hathi> stefanb@hathi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker) writes:
- >This is the *SILLIEST* excuse I EVER heard for NOT using GadTools. Where
- >did you get that? From your breakfast cereal box or the Enquire?
-
- When was the last time you used GadTools?
- GadTools was created for the purpose of making preferences-type utilities.
- Trying to use it on full-blown apps is something close to the kiss-of-death.
-
- >Do you *REALLY* think, that Commodore defines a new GUI standard, tells
- >everybody to use it and then go through all the hassle of having thousands
- >"2.0 compatible" programs which are not RTG compatible?
-
- Well, was 2.0 itself "2.0 compliant".
- Nope.
- That said, you're probably right.
-
- >BTW.: GadTools is an Intuition feature. RTG is a feature of the
- >graphics.library, which Intuition uses...
-
- And has often bypassed in the past. Things are better under 3.0, so I hear.
- And slower, for instance, on things like screen dragging....
-
- >>mention, although they certainly do count) and so we've been writing custom
- >>code for months.
- >Lost time for REAL product enhancements.
-
- No, it's unfortunately essential.
-
- David C. Navas dnavas@oracle.com
- Working for, but not speaking on behalf of, Oracle Corp.
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