Thanks for the info jacadcaps, I'll start looking at somem uit tutorials and docs. How much intuition knowledge is required for mui? I'm assuming I'll still get all the IDCMP messages etc?
do I need to buy mui to develop for it? I remember yerars ago you had to register it.. wikipedia says its freeware but the mui homepage is... old but still talks about registering it.
Since I'm going to have to do all my text management myself I'm wondering now if I can use freetype.. may be to slow and I should just stick to topaz...
I need to do some more reading.
MUI is free now, including the MUI SDK.
MUI takes care of all IDCMP messages itself. You can write a class and intercept stuff like keystrokes etc. though if you need to.
Freetype should work I guess. Never used anything like it myself though. What OS are you on? Classic 68k OS3.x or new OS4 PPC? Typically you could just open any font, TTF or bitmap, and just draw in your window/MUI class using normal text functions. Should work on old OS3 as well with some TTF library installed and fonts available.
