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Re: Wouldn't it be nice if...
« on: September 19, 2003, 11:38:07 AM »
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Realistically we need to get the common buttons, menus, lists, scrollers, choosers and other gui elements under our umbrella. Support for more exotic classes (and for MUI this is quite a lot, I guess) is of lesser importance to the target audience.



Sorry, but I have to disagree here ;-)
The 3rd-party-classes are one of the biggest arguments for MUI (and sometimes the
biggest against it :-o ).

Coding a "real" MUI-app without useing those, is next to impossible, unless
you create your own classes inside your project, which would most
likely break the compabilty with your ReAction-layer.

MUI and ReAction are just to far apart for your idea to turn into reality(without
adding lots of bloat).

Better solutions:
a) use MUI/Zune which is (will be) available for all 3 plattforms.

b) write some headers that make porting between MUI and ReAction easier (but
would still result in different exes).

c) create a new GUI-lib useing only the 3.1 API (like that NewGUI,Triton, StormWizard,
BGUI .....), and make it open-source.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else