Re: Unibook 4.0.1 available

2004-09-18 Thread Marion Gunn
I understand. Should have put my question less bluntly? I belong to a group some of whose members seem to be able to make just about anything run on anything, no thanks to me, so I assumed the same expertise to be available within Unicode, only to have some volunteer(s) from within the ranks of UC

Re: Unibook 4.0.1 available

2004-09-18 Thread James Kass
Kenneth Whistler wrote, Anyone who wants Unibook for Mac or Unibook for Unix is free to take the concept and go off and write it in your spare time. And if you architect it with a platform-independent system wrapper, so much the better. Marion Gunn wrote, ... I belong to a group

Re: Unibook 4.0.1 available

2004-09-17 Thread Doug Ewell
Marion Gunn mgunn at egt dot ie wrote: Is it really so hard to make multi-platform, open-office-type utilities? Actually, yes, it is. Mac users don't want an application to be too Windows-like, Windows users don't want an application to be too Mac-like (we'll see how the latest version of

Re: Unibook 4.0.1 available

2004-09-17 Thread Marion Gunn
Scríobh Asmus Freytag: I'm glad you like it. I've been told previously by experienced Mac users that it runs fine with Virtual PC on the Mac. Nothing runs fine with Virtual PC on the Mac, except things which run fine with Virtual PC on the Mac (meaning it's too memory greedy to run normal,

Re: Unibook 4.0.1 available

2004-09-17 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: Doug Ewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marion Gunn mgunn at egt dot ie wrote: Is it really so hard to make multi-platform, open-office-type utilities? Actually, yes, it is. Mac users don't want an application to be too Windows-like, Windows users don't want an application to be too Mac-like (we'll

Re: Unibook 4.0.1 available

2004-09-17 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Philippe waxed lyrical about the advantages of platform-independent development: Isn't Java hiding most of these platform details, by providing unified support for platform-specific look and feel? Aren't there now many PLAF and themes manager available with automatic default selection of the

Re: Unibook 4.0.1 available

2004-09-17 Thread Asmus Freytag
Just a note of thanks to many of you who have sent me useful feedback. I also found out that my update to the archive had gone awry, but am happy to point out now that http://www.unicode.org/unibook/Unibook-4.0.1.zip is finally the correct version. A./

Re: Unibook 4.0.1 available

2004-09-16 Thread Marion Gunn
Lovely browser. Is it possible to obtain a Mac-friendly version? mg Scríobh Asmus Freytag: I've updated Unibook to version 4.0.1 The latest version reads more property files and can display some of the new 4.0.1 properties. There are new ways to combine properties. As before, you can

Re: Unibook 4.0.1 available

2004-09-16 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 04:32 AM 9/16/2004, Marion Gunn wrote: Lovely browser. Is it possible to obtain a Mac-friendly version? mg I'm glad you like it. I've been told previously by experienced Mac users that it runs fine with Virtual PC on the Mac. A./ PS: To those of you who downloaded 4.0.1 already, the zip

Unibook 4.0.1 available

2004-09-15 Thread Asmus Freytag
I've updated Unibook to version 4.0.1 The latest version reads more property files and can display some of the new 4.0.1 properties. There are new ways to combine properties. As before, you can cutpaste either the character code or the character name of a selected character to the clipboard.