[Coco] CoCo GUI

[Frederick D Provoncha]

I should probably throw my 2 cents in on this topic:

I actually like Multi-Vue. The only problem I see is that it needs more
features. If we use Gshell 1.26 as a starting point, and add more
features to it, I think it could be all that I would ever want in a Coco
OS-9 GUI. At the very least, any new GUI should try to be compatible with
Multi-vue (i.e. use .aif files and Multi-Vue icons and use the env.file
in the SYS directory)

What I'd like to see added is the ability to customize the content of the
pull-down menus by adding more commands. I think that it should be
possible to add quite a few additional OS commands to the pull-down
menus.

Fred Provoncha

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:19:43 -0500 Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
writes:
> 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?
> 
>                 A
> 
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