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- It was on the night of 27-Jan-98, when no creatures were stirring, and all was
- silent. Suddenly, Jens jumped out from behind a rock and wouldnt stop shouting
- about "Re: sorry for this...." until I was forced to knock them out:
-
- »-> Just a note, there's actualy two great AGA-supporting extensions in beta-
- »-> state right now. The new GUI, and the new OS DevKit. For those complaining
- »-> about the OS DevKit being hard to use (like myselve) it's now including
- »-> some very easy-to-use screens, windows and gadgets commands, one of the
- »-> best features is that it's capable of fully supporting datatypes and
- »-> locales in your programs (localisation is almost imposible with GUI as far
- »-> as I know for now).. I can inform you that I'm currently beta-testing the
- »-> OS DevKit 1.54 and from what I've been told about GUI I'd prefer OS
- anytime
- »-> as it gives so much else that the GUI don't have. The lib file of OS is
- »-> currently about 92 Kb in size and are almost bigger than the mainlib of
- »-> AMOS Pro 2.0 :)..
-
- The GUI Extension is the only library out there tht ive seen in action, I
- havent seen any of the OS devkit examples yet, even though the author said
- he had re-written a ot of things and would send me something to play with.
-
- The GUI extension does lack a lot of stuff, indeed Locale is a major
- downside, but their are a lot of things that it does support, such as
- virtually full GFX card support (screenmodes etc.). Does OS Devkit support
- GFX card modes, or just AGA modes?
-
- GUI extension allows to open custom screenmodes too, for example, I could
- open a lowres screen of just 50x50 pixels. Frokm what I can tell from the
- lib, the extension now supports IFF loading and displaying of images in the
- library. Until pietro gets back to me with some info on the newer commands, I
- cant be certain of how they work properly.
-
- One thing that makes the GUI extension a pleasure to use as well as the OS
- stuff, is the excellent TCP commands is boasts, as no other extension ive
- seen can handle the net in the same way they do. For example, having
- timeouts so the system doesnt lock, asynchronous operations, the works.
-
- »-> I hope noone takes this too serious but I'm a bit pissed by always hearing
- »-> that the GUI is the best solution for intuition and it's the only serious
- »-> looking extension for AGA users.. WRONG, GUI might still be the easist to
- »-> use, but OS gives much better control for whatever you plan to make, and
- »-> it dosn't matter if you want intuition or AGA screens, this will be my
- »-> no. 1 choice from now on... And by the way, there's a little program that
- »-> can convert a GUI build with GAD-tools-box to a pice of OS-source :))
-
- Im not taking it too serious, but the question remains with the user. "Why
- should I pay X amount for this extension, when that extension does just the
- same". What does the OS DEvkit have that the GUI extension doesnt? Im not
- getting at anyone here, just asking a simple question.
-
- Ive been waiting for some stuff on the new OS Devkit for a while so I can
- explain a bit about its newer functions in an MPD report. Id also like to
- try a few speed comparisons on the two extensions.
-
- Andrew "Mushroom" Kellett
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