MUI 5.0-2016R3 for AmigaOS4/PPC and AmigaOS3/m68k released

[eliyahu]

The MUI for AmigaOS development team is proud to announce the immediate release of version 5.0-2016R3 of the Magic User Interface for AmigaOS4/PPC and AmigaOS3/m68k. The release archives can be found in the download section.

Like all former releases a keyfile is required to enable all available settings. Old keyfiles from MUI 3.8 can be used without any restriction.

Please note that MUI5 for AmigaOS3/m68k is definitely targeted at powerful systems with a fast CPU and a fast graphic board. Although it is still possible to run this release on a real 68k machine an emulation like WinUAE is very highly recommended. Also colormapped screens with 256 colors at most are still supported, but MUI5 makes heavy use of fancy truecolor images and effects which cannot be provided on colormapped screens with the full range of possibilities.

These are the most important new features of MUI5:

• inline editing in List objects
• built-in hooks for multicolumn lists
• built-in handling of sortable list columns
• support for fixed (initial) width list columns
• new Textdata class to support UTF8 encoded text (via codesets.library)
• new reordering methods for Group and Family class

[eliyahu]

I get super frustrated with these posts about "a new version". They pop up every few months. Almost as often as some poor schmuck, freshly back to the Amiga community after decades away, posts about all the problems they're having. They think "ooh, I'll just download the latest version", not knowing how many issues it causes. IMHO every post about "a new version" should include a warning about this. Or at least give people a heads up, you know?

i hear you loud and clear, and you're right on the money. MUI5 is terrific for AOS4; and AOS3, too, when used under emulation, but on a A1200 it's a tad much. i'll make sure a disclaimer is in future update-related posts similar to the one in this one....

Please note that MUI5 for AmigaOS3/m68k is definitely targeted at powerful systems with a fast CPU and a fast graphic board. Although it is still possible to run this release on a real 68k machine an emulation like WinUAE is very highly recommended. Also colormapped screens with 256 colors at most are still supported, but MUI5 makes heavy use of fancy truecolor images and effects which cannot be provided on colormapped screens with the full range of possibilities.

can you recommend a better disclaimer text?

-- eliyahu