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Re: Zune for all platforms
« on: September 20, 2011, 08:27:23 PM »
Are there any MUI 3.8 apps that do NOT work in MUI4/MOS?
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Re: Zune for all platforms
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2011, 03:26:37 AM »
Quote from: HenryCase;660316
Do they though, do they all have access to MUI3.8? As far as I understood, MorphOS has MUI4, OS4 has MUI3.9. It's only OS3 that has MUI3.8. Whilst it might seem like I'm being pedantic, the point is that these different versions of MUI are not fully compatible with each other. These incompatibilities leads to extra work for developers.

Are these incompatibilities documented somewhere, like in a chart or something? Eh, formatting lost below, use your imagination...

Feature name  works in MUI3.8  works in MUI3.9   works in MUI4.0
Thing 1            yes                    missing               yes
Thing 2            yes                    yes                      flaky
Cat                  yes                    yes                      yes
Hat                  missing              yes                      yes
etc...

Then we all know (1) what to avoid for full cross-platform, and (2) what to fix in our OS of choice's MUI.
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Re: Zune for all platforms
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2011, 07:52:07 PM »
Quote from: nicholas;660670
Wasn't there some talk of porting Zune to Linux at some point?


Interesting idea. I'm looking at wxWidgets for AmigaOS (Thanks to AmiCygnix too!), and the thought of the reverse crossed my mind as well, to port Amiga apps on other wxWidgets platforms and have them look as native there as possible. (biggest benefit imho between wx and qt/gtk/etc is that wx intends to have an app look native on every OS it supports, not to look like you're running a qt app on MS Windows etc.) How beneficial is that? Not sure, if the Linux/Windows/etc peeps will be super excited, but it's an easy thought to think about anyway.

Anyone that does do a Zune/MUI/Reaction/whatever to other platforms, consider wrapping to wxWidgets on those platforms to maximize how many you get to without looking weird on them. :)
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