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by AcetoliNe
Sat Apr 09, 2005 7:56 pm
Forum: Design
Topic: Importance of UI
Replies: 99
Views: 87637

First of all, as UI design is alot more than just placing the buttons there are much other things to play with, i.e. behaviourism, error handling. Exactly. The consistent behaviour of windows controls is one of the things that I love about the OS. Do you realize that, the things that user wants, ar...
by AcetoliNe
Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:23 am
Forum: Design
Topic: Importance of UI
Replies: 99
Views: 87637

I've been silently following this thread for some time now and I must make a confession: I'm confused. Everyone seems to have their own idea about what UI (and GUI) seems to be. If by designing the UI you mean the overal window form (where buttons go, where the title bar goes, etc...) then there is ...
by AcetoliNe
Fri Apr 08, 2005 7:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: 500.000.000,00 €uros
Replies: 12
Views: 9033

I hope you all realize that microsoft is never going to pay, and if it ever was, the money would never reach ros, and that this whole thing is just a whimsy flight of fancy.

Even so, it's kind of fun thinking about all that $$$.
Oops, i meant €€€. ;)
by AcetoliNe
Thu Apr 07, 2005 7:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: 500.000.000,00 €uros
Replies: 12
Views: 9033

My personal answer is no, but... five hundred MILLION euros? *knees shake while contemplating that much money* A hundredth of it would be enough to give reactos a huge development boost. I personally don't think it would be correct (One problem would be how to evenly distribute the money) but who ca...
by AcetoliNe
Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:11 pm
Forum: Design
Topic: Importance of UI
Replies: 99
Views: 87637

I agree with mf. Implementing UI immediately would simplify things to a great extent. Besides, it's something that a wider group of people could participate in, unlike code. One of the things that often annoys me with UI's is the lack of keyboard support, like tab from one control to the next, whene...
by AcetoliNe
Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:12 am
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Some bugs in ReactOS
Replies: 10
Views: 9676

This is called feature in the Microsoft dictionary.
That was a nice one LOL
by AcetoliNe
Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:08 am
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: DOS subsystem already dicussed in detail
Replies: 16
Views: 11022

Nobody said we'd run them natively. Like I said in my previous post, the hardware would need to be abstracted to some generic old hardware (sb16, standard vesa compliant videocard, etc), like DOSBox does, except with the difference of running the actual cpu code natively (instead of emulating). Jus...
by AcetoliNe
Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:00 am
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Processor Scheduling
Replies: 21
Views: 15161

I don't really think the processor scheduler in windows in inefficient. In my opinion, it does the job well. Lengthening the processor quota to increase performance sounds logical, but you must realize that it only takes up a very small fraction of overall time. A user-configurable scheduling system...
by AcetoliNe
Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:46 am
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: target demographics
Replies: 20
Views: 12470

As with so many other threads in this forum, it starts out with an interesting topic, then gradually degrades into a war between Windows and Linux. (sigh) If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: Linux isn't hard to use, as long as you masochistically enjoy memorizing cryptic commands containing millions of...
by AcetoliNe
Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Setup-Manager for ReactOS
Replies: 13
Views: 10585

Having a fake registry sounds great, but I shudder to think of the complexities of implementing it. It would not be an easy task. I'm all for it if someone comes along and does it, but it is in my opinion very hard to do. Or it could just force a prompt every time a file is added to a system directo...
by AcetoliNe
Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: sandbox for Win16 and DOS applications
Replies: 19
Views: 14310

maybe, but you have to realize that doing such a thing would be hard work. Creating a sandbox for Win16 processes would mean a whole lot of modifications to the architecture of ReactOS. This is one of those things that would be nice to implement in the future, but definately not at this time.
by AcetoliNe
Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:37 am
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: DOS subsystem already dicussed in detail
Replies: 16
Views: 11022

For a Win16 subsystem you must create 16 bit DLLs - therefore you should use a 16 bit compiler. That's correct. We're not trying to make a Win16 subsystem yet though. For a small - and almost incompatible - DOS16 emulation you might require a 16 bit compiler anyway for FAR CALL (16:16) emulation. F...
by AcetoliNe
Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: DOS subsystem already dicussed in detail
Replies: 16
Views: 11022

Maybe you don't know it but you cannot use MinGW gcc to build 16 bit code for 16 bit sections. It's no problem to build 16 bit code for 32 bit sections though. No 16-bit code needed whatsoever. The whole subsystem will be 32-bit. The only 16-bit code will (hopefully) be the DOS program you're tryin...
by AcetoliNe
Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:58 pm
Forum: Development Help
Topic: Linear frame buffering of video?
Replies: 18
Views: 18077

IMO the biggest trap with optimizing is that often most of the time is NOT spent where you think it is spent. Profiling (we have a nice /PROFILE boot switch) helps to determine what you actually want to optimize. Just replacing random pieces of C code with asm is not what you (or rather, I <g>) wan...
by AcetoliNe
Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion and Feedback
Topic: Reactive-X; how close will it resemble Active-X?
Replies: 11
Views: 10843

Hrmmm... Reactivex.... sounds nice I think the answer to your question is: ros activex will be as close to win activex as possible without undermining security, copyrights, and the fact that this is an open source os. I think that's basically true for every component of ros, and ros components (medi...