Mixing Boopsi and gadtools

[ronniebeck]

So I have been delving into Amiga development and I hoping to draw on the collective wisdom of the community with a question.  I have been looking at both Boopsi and gadtools and found myself wanting to use both at the same time.  But I don't know if this is really possible.  My attempts thus far have produced strange behaviors such as some Boopsi objects not appearing at all.  Is it breaking some sort of implementation rule by trying to use both?

[ronniebeck]

IIRC there are ways to do it, not sure why you would want to though. Better to just use ReAction for everything, it is a superset of the GadTools functionality.

Boopsi is much more powerful and flexible but prior to ReAction (and in the abscence of MUI or something similar) boopsi didn't provide simple elements, like for example a checkbox.  Gadtools does.  ReAction and similar are great if you intend to run you application on a machine with ReAction installed.  This would certainly be a solution.  But my goal is to distribute a bootable floppy.  Can I redistribute ReAction or does this require a license?  I suppose I could take the view point that nobody will care to pursue me if it were to be illegal.

The other avenue I see open to me is to either write my own boopsi objects or find some pre-existing open source ones I could include.

Thanks for the 2 cents.