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- From: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget)
- Subject: Re: Gem List (Please Post!) (fwd)
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 23:48:12 -0600
- Precedence: bulk
-
- Hello Ken,
-
- >Look at it, and you'll find you will never look at AES 4.x quite the same
- >way again. :-)
-
- I will, and you are probably right about it.
-
- >> Okay, Ken. _Send_ me a copy, if you are willing, and I will look at it
- >> and summarize the experience to the list.
-
- Ken did send me a copy of the demonstration, and I will post a message
- about the experience later today.
-
- >Actually, we *did* upload to the conference, but Yat declined to post it on
- >the basis that 'not everyone can use uudecode/unzip'. Shallow excuse
- >especially when other binaries have been posted to this conference in
- >exactly the same method.
-
- Interesting... You should not post anything larger than 16K to this
- list anyway, though, since MausNet will bounce it back to the entire
- list.
-
- >I'm amazed at how much your attitude towards me has changed over the last
- >year. Since we've not talked to each other since I sent you the last version
- >of WinLIB PRO, you've all-of-the-sudden got sour towards me. Although I
- >don't take this personally, this is rather interesting when it comes toward
- >a person who was highly praising my library on ForemNET a year ago... If
- >you keep talking down about it, why would you even WANT a copy of the
- >library? I'll go ahead and send it to you anyway.
-
- This should probably be in private mail, but I'll keep it short. Perhaps
- my attitude has soured over the last year, but I doubt it. The fact that
- I am not 100% encouraging toward your library should only be taken as that.
- If you did something I agreed with, I'd be very encouraging...
-
- >XAES (the reworked version of WinLIB PRO) is 238,592 bytes. Remember
- >of course that only the parts of the library that you use get linked into
- >your executable.
-
- This is 500% larger than EGEM (roughly). Your library offers features
- that EGEM does not, I know, so I will not say that the size is an
- evil thing. You also mentioned that only the things you need get
- linked in. That is to the good, and would make me consider your
- library thoughtfully before making a decision.
-
- >Tell me, where can I get SGEM, or ForceGEM? What FTP sites, since I've never
- >heard of or seen these libraries.
-
- ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de /pub/atari/[Pp]rogamming (not positive about directory)
-
- EGEM, ForceGEM, SGEM, and others are all there.
-
- >Notice the *key word* here. >>DIALOG<<, not >>WINDOW<<. So, it's o.k. to
- >operate background window gadgets with the left mouse button but it's not
- >o.k. to use the same button by itself for background dialog buttons? Talk
- >about inconsistent! :-)
-
- Yes, it is inconsistant. Not everything in life is consistant, though.
- I'm content to leave the standard behaviour the way it is.
-
- >WinLIB PRO is easy to use, as the extended functionality is simply intuitive
- >extensions of what the user already knows. Unlike some of atari's
- >'extended features' which are decidedly non-intuitive. WinLIB strives to have
- >a CONSISTENT, INTUITIVE user interface, whereas 'other' people seem to strive
- >for exactly the opposite :-)
-
- Please keep in mind that we are discussing GEM, though, not WinLIB PRO.
- In order for the ST to have the consistant, intuitive, [...] GUI that
- you want, every program would have to support it. Since it is not
- likely that every programmer will use WinLIB PRO (no matter how good
- it is) then your GUI will not be consistant, intuitive, [...] at
- all, will it? That is my point. I am speaking from experience on
- this point, by the way. I looked at the copy of the new demonstration
- that you sent and I can honestly say that it does not look or operate
- remotely like GEM usually does. The window gadgets are different, the
- method of sizing a window is different, the method of iconification (such
- as it is) is different, and so on. If anything, it looks quite a bit like
- windows. It looks GOOD, but different.
-
- >Fine with me. The last thing I need is a bashing about a library that has
- >not yet been released, and is not yet FIT to be released.
-
- I'll take that into account when I talk about it.
-
- >Bzzt. Game over. Pure C works *FINE* with the Falcon. It always has. Pure C
- >1.1 even has bindings *FOR* the Falcon. Where did you ever get that bizarre
- >misconception that it didn't work on the Falcon? It isn't based on FIRST HAND
- >EXPERIENCE is it?
-
- First hand? No. If I'm wrong, I apologize. I was commenting from
- second-hand information.
-
- >I was applying it not only to assembler level debuggers, I was applying it
- >to this conference in general. I've noticed that people have been slinging
- >around comments about things (like the Pure C thing above) without having
- >EXPERIENCE. Just slinging stuff around based on OPINION and not EXPERIENCE
- >is a definite no-no.
-
- If I had a Falcon, I would comment from experience... :) I was wrong,
- I admitted it. Not the end of the world. The reason I mentioned it
- was because I saw a message in comp.sys.atari.st mentioning a new
- version (2.0) of Pure C that would work on the Falcon. I assumed that
- meant there were problems with the old version on the Falcon.
-
- >With PowerDOS this is not a problem. But I digress :-)
-
- PowerDOS has a whole new set of problems... :(
-
- >If Yat would actually POST the file we sent to the list... geez.... Where
- >can I get WEGA, or Sys_Gem?
-
- I'm not sure about WEGA, but SysGem is available at ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de
- and other german FTP sites.
-
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