Magic User Interface

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Magic User Interface
Image:Magic-user-interface-logo.png
Developed by Stefan Stuntz
Latest release 3.8 / 1997-02-12
MUI4 beta
OS AmigaOS, MorphOS
Platform Amiga
Genre Widget toolkit
Licence Shareware
Website http://www.sasg.com/mui/

The Magic User Interface is an object oriented system by Stefan Stuntz to generate and maintain graphical user interfaces. With the aid of a preferences program, the user of an application has the ability to customize the outfit according to personal taste.

The Magic User Interface (MUI in short) was written for AmigaOS and gained popularity amongst both programmers and users. It has been ported to PowerPC processors and adopted as the default GUI toolkit of the MorphOS operating system. The MUI application programmer interface has been cloned by the Zune toolkit used in the Amiga Research Operating System.[1]

[edit] Main AmigaOS GUI Toolkits

Actually there are two main widget toolkits into Amiga world, and are in competition each other. The most widely used it is MUI (adopted into AROS, MorphOS and in most Amiga programs, the other it is ReAction which is the default GUI toolkit chosen for AmigaOS 4.0 and develop AmigaOS software, and it is closed source for AmigaOS3.5-4.0 development only.

In Amiga there are also actually used widely Cygnix reduced version of X11 engine replacement Cygwin and it has been used to port into Amiga programs like Amaya, AbiWord, Firefox, Gimp, and it is in development a GTK MUI wrapper and it will allow the porting of various GTK based software.

ScalOS GUI which it is an alternative to Workbench, has its own system of widgets. A limited number of Amiga users, but very trained to this alternative GUI are still loyal to this interface.

[edit] Palette Extension to Workbench defaults

MUI extended Workbench's four-colour palette with four additional colours, allowing smoother gradients with less noticeable dithering. The MagicWB companion to MUI made use of this extended palette to provide more attractive icons to replace the dated Workbench defaults.

MUI eight-colour palette
Colour
Red 149 000 255 59 123 175 170 255
Green 149 000 255 103 123 175 144 169
Blue 149 000 255 162 123 175 124 151

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