[Coco] CoCo GUI

[John Donaldson]

   Isn't this the OS9 Level 3 that Br. Jermey has running??

John Donaldson



Allen Huffman wrote:

> Okay, in order to keep 100% compatibility, and since OS-9 has no 
> (released) provision for moveable, resizable windows, and since we 
> probably don't want to do an entire new window driver ... (do we?) ...
>
> The CoCo GUI could basically be a program launcher -- Windows 
> Explorer, Mac OS Finder, etc -- with the ability to browse files, do 
> standard desktop things like copy/move/cut/paste.  Drag and drop to a 
> printer icon to print.  Pull down menus, windows, etc.  Apps could be 
> written to live inside of this environment, but clicking on other 
> types of apps could transparently launch them -- in their own screen 
> (CLEAR to flip to that screen, for example).
>
> Now, some things could be made to run on this GUI if we actually built 
> it to use OS-9 L2 Windowing, just like MultiVue.
>
> So I guess --- what's the thought?  Ground up replacement, running old 
> programs on their own old style windows?  Or MultiVue replacement, 
> using the Tandy Windowing environment with a new GUI on that?
>
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