[openbeosstorage] Re: ISO9660/cdrom progress

"Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I don't know of any other applications than the famous cd-record 
> > which 
> > is also available for BeOS - but of course, this has never 
> > interested 
> > me much, as I rarely use other operating systems, if possible ;) 
> > Has anyone tried to burn a multi-session disk using it=3D3D3F
> AFAIK cdrecord can burn CDs with multiple sessions, but I don't think 
> it has any idea of ISO9660. It burns what it is been given, as track 
> or 
> session or whatever is correct.

Exactly, then take mkisofs/mkhybrid as the only application I know to 
create those images and look what it does :-)

> > Oh, it's really not hard to *not* use a layout manager, but if you 
> > really have to :-)
> Do I hear a volunteer desiring to take over=3D3F ;-)

Hehe, I highly doubt that ;-))

> Seriously, I hate calculating sizes for GUI elements. Even worse, as 
> soon as you want to support resizing and have something as `complex' 
> as 
> two similarly sized boxes in a row or column, you have to recalculate 
> manually. Finally you end up with a layout management for each of 
> your 
> grouping views.

Yes, that's true. But it's still not complicated, but in fact it was 
one thing I hated about the gadtools.library as well.

> When switching from AmigaOS to BeOS, I was surprised how inferior the 
> Interface Kit of this shiny new OS was compared with MUI.

Oh yes, me too! MUI is really nice. BTW also OpenStep has very inferior 
(no) layout classes, I dunno about MacOS X, though.

Adios...
   Axel.

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