Kumiko GUI - Amiga Workbench 3.1 GUI for Windows

[milika]

Really dont know the right room for this - so ill just post it here. Please moderators move it if needed...

For all Amiga fans this will be very easy to explain. This is a project which will try to bring all old and well beloved applications, as well as create new ones, but with the look and feel of genuine Wokbench 3.1 environment. This is not a windows skin/them or similar. These programs look like this, and behave like this, and only like this. No windows blinds can change that. Just to make it even clearer, this is a windows exe, so it will work on practically any windows. This is NO emulation, and NO skin. Try it and see.

Go to http://www.milika.net and click on the Kumiko GUI icon
Please Try it and report back, i am eager to hear form real Amiga fans!

For all you other, less fortunate users, who do not know what Amiga or Workbench is, this is just a freeware apps project.

This is a screen shoot of first and simplest api - Calculator.

[odin]

Seems to work fine, but on a slightly larger screenresolution (1280*1024) the application becomes useless ;-).

[milika]

Yes, true, but this was made for true amiga look.
Remember, this is full GUI not a skin or something.
I am currently working on a small app like font chooser in prefs. Which will allow users to chose font and size prefs.

This way you can choose how does everything looks, but in true amiga style!

I was thinking of doing FileMaster or DOpus 4 next, but i am waiting what fans have to say...

[motorollin]

Cool! It would be awesome to replace all of the standard Windows apps with Kumiko equivalents :-) Have you considered creating an Explorer Shell replacement which would emulate Workbench?

Your app also runs on a Mac thanks to Crossover; look!


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moto

[RRunner]

I tried this out and like the concept however it shows up way to small to be usable on my laptop with a screen resolution of 1280x800. I second the opinion above... that there should be a prefs option to adjust size.

[milika]

Nice, if you used original fonts would be even nicer

Exlorer shell replacement. You mean explorer.exe replacement. Easily done. But i would want to use proof Kumiko on several apps before taking that step. And still right click menu is giving me trouble...
Very nice idea though... In some time definitely worth a try

[Plaz]

Interesting idea. I'm running it on my desktop at 1600*1200 and it's a bit too small to use.

One technical note. If I right click within the boundry area of the numeric display, I get an error message that won't leave the screen untill I kill calculator with task manager... "Out of system resources." It's repeatable on my system, any one else give it a try?


Plaz

edit: clear error definition

[Fester]

This was fun to try. Calculator with red mouse arrow. Too small for my laptop though...But I like and will continue to watch this project.

[ptek]

It's very interesting. But so did you have to code the calculator itself ?

Can you give us detais about the language used ?
C, C++, C# ?

A skin system would be the optimal option, but I guess that Windows will never behave like the Workbench - the annoying click to front behaviour of Windows seems present in every skin system I tried so far ...

nice.

[pVC]

Only if that would have Birdie, VisualPrefs, sysihack, MagicMenu etc... as far as I can remember, amigans have tried to get rid of plain WB3.1 look

[milika]

@plaz i could not repeat that error. Right click open content menu, so there is perhaps some error in your system pertaining content menu...

@ptek I coded it in Pascal I wanted to use a bit strange language, but it still is multi platform, don't worry. And yes i coded it myself. AI actually don't like skins. I would be easy to do skin system, but then we are returning to windows blinds and a like. Not the idea at all...

@pvc I have been an Amiga user for a looong time, and when all comes down to it. wb 3.1 look is the one i like the most! But if people disagree i will honor that and switch Kumiko to look which is most popular. Please do advise, asap. Because i planed on doing more coding soon....

@every1 plz use Amiga forever fonts - it will look a bit bigger and much more original!

[Argo]

Neat! Keep up the good work.

The calculator didn't look so good on my 1440x900 desktop til I install the Amiga Forever fonts. Which made it readable.

[ptek]

Personally, I always used a 4 colour display on my real Amiga. More colors would cause the screen update to be slugish...
So, no fancy UI enhancements for me

The more responsive the better.

So I like the WB3.0/3.1 look

[milika]

My thoughts exactly... At most i would have used 8 colors. But rarely
Anyhow this needs to be decided promptly. So if any1 thinks differently, please let me know!

10x!

[ptek]

The optimal solution would be supporting a variable number of colors and optional palette loading.

Or if it get complicated to do this versatility, a small set of color levels : 4 colors, 8 colors for the MUI fans and maybe 256 if not complicating to much the development