AmigaOS DevContest kicks off!

[Rogue]

That is quite much due to lack of new MUI releases during past years. Since list.mui was not advancing nlist.mcc was made. Then came betterstring (and newstring + textinput), betterbalance, nlisttree (listtree.mcc author disappeared) and dozen crappy toolbar classes. But MUI 3.9 added many new features and more is coming.

That doesn't help the problem, though. Yes, there is always a problem when there is no central steering committee, and yes, MUI 3.9 added more features, it still doesn't cure the big issue though that you always have to download a heap of custom classes to actually get something to run, and hope that interdependencies don't kill you.

There are also many MUI custom classes because MUI is simply popular.

This also doesn't invalidate my original point.

And there is still the other issues. Granted, well-done applications like e.g. IBrowse do not suffer from the "identical config as the author" problem, but many of them do.

And I am not saying Reaction is superior or more powerful or anything like that.

[Argo]

That's not even an argument - who doesn't distribute the class with their app?

Quite a few actually. If a programmer is going to use another's library, why not just ask to distribute it with their program. It's just annoying to look at a ReadMe and see that it uses this lib by this guy, that guy, and the other guy. Yeah, the programmer include the custom libs he made, but you have to download whole pages for just one lib is annoying. It's especially frustrating when you can't find it. This is one reason I don't like MUI and don't use it unless I really have to. When I have to use MUI, because I can't find a similar program that doesn't use it, if all the libs are not there. Well, it gets deleted, didn't need to us that program that badly.
I also find that it is a resource hog. Not to mention, how many GUI toolkits do I need to have installed? My system at one point had the native OS toolkit, MUI, ClassAct, and I think another one (something I needed for some odd little program at one point). I feel we only need One GUI Toolkit.
It's not Linux with KDE, Gnome, etc., etc., etc., ...

Reaction is the offical GUI toolkit. Take it or leave it. From what I understand MUI on OS 4.0 is just there for backward compatability.

Not to mention is MUI 4.0 going to make it to Amiga OS 4.0?

[Panthro]

:lol: in the spirit of this thread I would like to point out that this OS4 app comp discriminates against windows!!  now if I could submit say (insert misc. M$ type app here) running on windows  wouldnt that promote OS4 nicely for you? :lol: