Wouldn't it be nice if...

[bloodline]

iamaboringperson wrote:
@bloodline

That's very nice about Zune, but we are talking about somthing that will appeal to MUI haters! ;-)

-Edit- Generalised my statment.

Then I think one should be asking oneself, why one would hate MUI...?  :-D

[bloodline]

Karlos, I have  a better idea, why not make an intuition style GUI tookit for SDL. That would make me happy :-)

[Karlos]

SDL eh? I don't code for the competition (joke)...

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Karlos wrote:
SDL eh? I don't code for the competition (joke)...

hahahaha, Well, I started to make a simple GUI Class for SDL, but I've got a bit boged down with the thead stuff.

I imagine you would do a better job.

[Karlos]

I am working on an abstract gui system for my portability project but its nothing at all to do with OS native GUIs.
It defines the control interface, the drawing methods and such are pure virtual functions that must be defined by the application designer. It is only meant to do the basic event control donkeywork for an otherwise totally 'free to implement as you wish' gui system...

[bloodline]

Well, it's only a wee joke and supposed to represent the 'conflict' between the two camps, which is why neither side is winning or losing. Anybody who's known me for long can verify I'm not anti MorphOS or its userbase.
 

Yes your Avitar *here* is an amusing joke...

This is less so...

[Karlos]

Are you serious?

The avatar I made here wouldn't fit. It's still just a joke dude, check the tag line there. Big deal the dude with the chaincannon won the animation allowing me to squeeze it into 5k. So am I an anti-MOS troll now then?

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Karlos wrote:
Are you serious?

The avatar I made here wouldn't fit. It's still just a joke dude, check the tag line there. Big deal the dude with the chaincannon won the animation allowing me to squeeze it into 5k. So am I an anti-MOS troll now then?

Fair point, carry on.

[Karlos]

Thanks ;-) - jeez people are wound up too tight these days :lol:

Seriously, some bridges need to be built between the 'camps'. I had thought this might be an interesting way to make a start...

-edit-

BTW, I'm referring to GUI abstaction, not ballistics tests on butterflies ;-)

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@Karlos:
As I told you in a message, that would be a great idea...

I think we should look other GUI libraries from other platforms (like gtk, QT,etc) and then look at our libraries and try to make similar functions... I think that writting similar functions to QT etc would be an added bonus because it would allow programmers to port more easily software...

Firstly it should include the basic components shown as default in VBasic and other IDEs for example: Listers, buttons, textboxes,etc...

"My gut feeling is that a lot of (especially new) programmers are slightly put off by the way these guis are implemented."

Yeah! that's it! A Reaction wrapper for AROS would be really cool, but we need to attract new programmers to our platform. Windows wouldn't have so many programmers if they had to write every GUI like we have to...

And about using MUI for everything... this new Wrapper-API would use similar functions as other toolkits like QT etc, making porting easier...

@Karlos:
I don't know much about reaction, but don't hesitate in sending me a message to talk about the specification, I'm quite interested...

@jaokim:
Using includes or a library wouldn't be similar? After all, it will only be a wrapper that translates the new API calls to Reaction/MUI/Whatever... (even gadtools would be possible)

@Karlos:
It would be possible to make the linkable library first and then once it works correctly turn it into a dynamic library?

@Bloodline:
"Then I think one should be asking oneself, why one would hate MUI...?"
That question may turn this thread into a flame-fest... :-D
Simply accept that not everybody likes MUI.