Zune pass-through for Reaction?
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Thu, 07/24/2025 - 22:15
Hello! I was just looking at the AROS sources on GitHub and saw that there was a 20+ year old attempt at porting the Zune version of MUIMaster.library to AmigaOS. There are makefiles for both AmigaOS 3 and AmigaOS 4. I was wondering if overhead could be trimmed by making the layout engine use Layout.class instead of its own implementation. There would definitely be better cache hits if there weren't two layout engines dirtying the caches at the same time.
It's a thought, anyway, and the license is AROS Public License 1.1 (derived from Mozilla Public License of the same version).
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Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 11:22
You're right. Perhaps there is a better way. The code generation backend for MUI Builder is now GPL 3. GenCodeC source code
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Yes, MUI would be less bad if it was just a wrapper/passthrough to the standard classes, that's something for the MUI developers rather than the OS developers to fix though. From my viewpoint it seems counterproductive as it would only encourage more use of the MUI API instead of the proper API that is designed for these classes.