MDI is just tabs BAD designed, then it was removed, but there is always the need to have multiple doc windows within an app window. Taskbar button grouping is just another bad design, it's easy to see less buttons, but far more problematic to use.
And tabs are way better when you're used to open 20+ pages at a time. Manage 30 opened browser windows with your taskbar and then complain about tabs.
1. That MDI thing is the same tabbed browsing that was later copied and appraised by Mozzila people.
2. The instructions for filling text fields dissapear automatically upon focus, so no time is lost, as the author of the article implies.
3. There is a print button in the main toolbar, so people will not confuse it with the print preview button, which is righ beside the "Autor mode" button. At least not me.
wxWindows has native look and feel over all the supported platforms, not emulated, and has several scripting languages.
Nothing beats wxPython for what you want to do. There is even wxLua (a very fast light scripting language) and wxBasic for the fanatics of that language.
If you use cygwin just for development of native win32 applications consider using Minimalist GNU for Windows. Its a way more small download that cygwin and I guess less than 1% of the.NET download (wich you say is free now but is the devil you know).
Do you think it would be easy to have wxWindows bindings?
That would surely increase the amount of new software available for it. And the design of the toolkit is WAY more elegant and functional than Java can ever hope to be for GUI development.
You don't only read the book, you compile every source code with the book and run the code as you read it.
That way you really understand the code. And is fun too.
About the jumping reputation, well that is true, and I still read their C++ books way more than I will read their Java or something else books ever. I would like an update to te C++ series. But that's dreaming I know.
Of course MS will resist it. But people will not upgrade and upgrade forever, or else everybody would have WinXP by now.
I think that wine only has to run well the Win9x apps to be a enourmous success. With DirectX is a big plus. It would be enough for a lot of practical purposes. The greatest and latest, well, let's see if people really need that.
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Not so fast...
First, the opensource model is great and all but it only serves right when is used to develop very common software, something almost everybody wants or something that can be built in small steps.
But there is a lot of software that simply doesn't fit the opensource model, because it will be used by very few people (which can't contribute with much developers, but surely can with lots of money), or because it represents a really big effort before a barely useful product and no group of developers could dedicate themselves to such kind of effort unless they are jobless.
This ramson model seems to fit the gap between the purely commercial software and the purely opensource software, and remember that a software fits in any class because functionality and target users, not only because the beliefs of the programmers. That includes technical beliefs.
I have and old Synaptics touchpad, like 4 years old, and the only driver linux people were able to do was to remove the tapping feature. What a stupid thing.
I really like the scrolling, and it only works, as always, in windows. This new driver, for a more advanced touchpad, is a welcome thing.
I think the infraestructure is almost there. Anyone can burn CDs. The recording studio costs are a little high but not really much.
But the already tied down artists? They have signed contracts for several albums spanning a lot of years, the most productives years of their life, in some cases.
Some bands break themselves and rearrange just to break from music contracts. And some very good artists still have that kind of contracts in vigency.
The fear of the ??AA is not that we can copy their disks. That's distracting, FUD. The real fear is that the good artists no longer want those contracts and have a way out.
In fact the ??AA makes no music. Neither we with our napster, kazaa or whatever. The artists does.
"My entire post archive is nothing but trolls, flamebait, and erroneous-information-filled karma whoring, and yet I now have enough karma to post at +2. I even did an early goatse link that didn't get modded down for at least an entire hour."
The funny thing is people believing the shit about Half-Life being based in Quake I. Debbuging a multithreaded application is one of the hardest things to do, actually. You should try that, at least once.
Slashdot Mirror
with the same post... that's amazing
Then may be the new 64 bit processors will be able to emulate the PPC.
AMD could even consider that for a marketing campaign.
MDI is just tabs BAD designed, then it was removed, but there is always the need to have multiple doc windows within an app window. Taskbar button grouping is just another bad design, it's easy to see less buttons, but far more problematic to use.
And tabs are way better when you're used to open 20+ pages at a time. Manage 30 opened browser windows with your taskbar and then complain about tabs.
Then you should like the wxWindows license, see: wxWindows license.
That said, the license is the thing I like most of wxWindows. Would be nice if lot of other projects used it.
I do agree with most points, however:
1. That MDI thing is the same tabbed browsing that was later copied and appraised by Mozzila people.
2. The instructions for filling text fields dissapear automatically upon focus, so no time is lost, as the author of the article implies.
3. There is a print button in the main toolbar, so people will not confuse it with the print preview button, which is righ beside the "Autor mode" button. At least not me.
QT is not free if you want to do commercial applications. wxWindows is.
And I'm not really convinced that it's better, unless you think only in KDE.
Anyway, wxWindows already has several scripting language bindings. (I forgot wxPerl too)
wxWindows has native look and feel over all the supported platforms, not emulated, and has several scripting languages.
Nothing beats wxPython for what you want to do.
There is even wxLua (a very fast light scripting language) and wxBasic for the fanatics of that language.
so perhaps a california university will make him ???
Poor host!!
If you use cygwin just for development of native win32 applications consider using Minimalist GNU for Windows. Its a way more small download that cygwin and I guess less than 1% of the .NET download (wich you say is free now but is the devil you know).
Do you think it would be easy to have wxWindows bindings?
That would surely increase the amount of new software available for it.
And the design of the toolkit is WAY more elegant and functional than Java can ever hope to be for GUI development.
Steve jobs head:
"We will have a loooong year before IBM has the new PowerPC processors. It's the time to apply all the possible Knuth optimizations to our software.
If we manage to survive in the end of the year we would probably have simply the best software available for any desktop user. Ever."
They're already doing some of it, but this is a long and hard year ahead.
Engines of Creation
This book is a classic reference to nanotechnology and discusses some of the more interesting applications, consecuences, etc.
I've read their books about C++ and Java in parallel and I can tell you: IT DOES MAKE SENSE.
It's even the other way around, this way you can really understand all the special features/nuances of the language.
Of course some chapters appear/dissapear completely, as some concepts has no translation. (STL in C++ and Threads in Java).
But it really makes sense.
You don't only read the book, you compile every source code with the book and run the code as you read it.
That way you really understand the code. And is fun too.
About the jumping reputation, well that is true, and I still read their C++ books way more than I will read their Java or something else books ever. I would like an update to te C++ series. But that's dreaming I know.
User will find ways to break Windows monopoly.
Of course MS will resist it. But people will not upgrade and upgrade forever, or else everybody would have WinXP by now.
I think that wine only has to run well the Win9x apps to be a enourmous success. With DirectX is a big plus. It would be enough for a lot of practical purposes. The greatest and latest, well, let's see if people really need that.
Well this is exactly the plot of the Uplink game.
And man, that is a very good game.
Not so fast...
First, the opensource model is great and all but it only serves right when is used to develop very common software, something almost everybody wants or something that can be built in small steps.
But there is a lot of software that simply doesn't fit the opensource model, because it will be used by very few people (which can't contribute with much developers, but surely can with lots of money), or because it represents a really big effort before a barely useful product and no group of developers could dedicate themselves to such kind of effort unless they are jobless.
This ramson model seems to fit the gap between the purely commercial software and the purely opensource software, and remember that a software fits in any class because functionality and target users, not only because the beliefs of the programmers. That includes technical beliefs.
Descent II had guided missiles since the Doom II times man !!
It was the upgrade to the homing missiles from Descent.
You could see them in the cockpit, or in the main display if you wished.
And it was the first real 3D game before Quake. What a great game.
This is cool.
I have and old Synaptics touchpad, like 4 years old, and the only driver linux people were able to do was to remove the tapping feature. What a stupid thing.
I really like the scrolling, and it only works, as always, in windows. This new driver, for a more advanced touchpad, is a welcome thing.
Before reading your post I though it was a case of shared source poisoned developer.
However, the posibility of that SS (or similar) is the main thing preventing you from being anonymous.
And, is your boss THAT intransigent ? He is benefiting somehow of your opensource work too, doesn't.
I think the infraestructure is almost there. Anyone can burn CDs. The recording studio costs are a little high but not really much.
But the already tied down artists? They have signed contracts for several albums spanning a lot of years, the most productives years of their life, in some cases.
Some bands break themselves and rearrange just to break from music contracts.
And some very good artists still have that kind of contracts in vigency.
The fear of the ??AA is not that we can copy their disks. That's distracting, FUD. The real fear is that the good artists no longer want those contracts and have a way out.
In fact the ??AA makes no music. Neither we with our napster, kazaa or whatever. The artists does.
From your journal:
"My entire post archive is nothing but trolls, flamebait, and erroneous-information-filled karma whoring, and yet I now have enough karma to post at +2. I even did an early goatse link that didn't get modded down for at least an entire hour."
The funny thing is people believing the shit about Half-Life being based in Quake I. Debbuging a multithreaded application is one of the hardest things to do, actually. You should try that, at least once.
Or just go to see the "inspiring" article about a Compost Bin then...
Mod the parent UP!!
The exokernels link is the only useful thing in this entire discussion. (At least for me)