[openbeosstorage] Re: ISO9660/cdrom progress
- From: "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosstorage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 21:14:32 +0100 CET
"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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