[openbeosstorage] Re: ISO9660/cdrom progress

"Axel D=F6rfler"  <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> "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=3D3D3D3F
> > 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, indeed, mkhybrid seems to support multiple sessions. Will have a 
look at it at some time.

> > 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.

Right, it's certainly not complicated, but rather useless and annoying.

> > 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.

Me neither.

CU, Ingo

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