Re: ISO9660/cdrom progress

"Axel D=F6rfler"  <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish-CFLBMwTPW48UNGrzBIF7/[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Ah, I see how it is. :-) Well, might you be able to check any of 
> > > the 
> > > burners available in Linux then=3D3D3F I don't have the patience to 
> > > figure 
> > > out how to get something as terribly complex as CD burning 
> > > software 
> > > to work. :-P :-)
> > Actually, I've never burned a CD under Linux. In fact, the only CD 
> > burner I possess lives in a BeOS-only machine that has been 
> > terribly 
> > unstable for quite some time. :-(
> > Maybe I could try the Knoppix CD I got recently. I don't know 
> > whether 
> > there's a CD burner app on it that supports burning multisession 
> > ISO9660 CD, though. Oh, I've got a better idea, I could ask stippi 
> > to 
> > burn some CDs for me under FreeBSD. :-)
> 
> 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=3D3F

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.

> > > How is the GUI add-on stuff going, btw=3D3D3F
> > It's progressing slowly. After some painful attempts to build a GUI 
> > with the plain Interface Kit, I decided to write some classes for a 
> > generic layout management. Don't worry, I don't intend to hold 
> > myself 
> > off too long with that. It will be relatively simple, and by 
> > accident 
> > I 
> > have this very powerful, `almost complete' layout library of mine 
> > discontinued some four years ago, from which I can borrow some 
> > ideas 
> > and code.
> 
> Oh, it's really not hard to *not* use a layout manager, but if you 
> really have to :-)

Do I hear a volunteer desiring to take over=3F ;-)

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.

When switching from AmigaOS to BeOS, I was surprised how inferior the 
Interface Kit of this shiny new OS was compared with MUI.

CU, Ingo