[herio]

You'd be surprised how flexible some of the GUI toolkits on the Amiga actually were. MUI is based on the concept that layout is dynamic and flexible.

It would dynamically calculate a minimum window size based on the components inside and you could then resize the window as you wanted with things calculating and resizing as you go, adapting to font selections and themes.

The actual implementation is archaic by todays standards but it did use attributes on UI objects to determine min/max sizing and other things, similar to CSS in concept.

[agumonkey]

oh ok, I assumed wrong. Is there any video I can see about that ?

[agent327]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNEwb7eRmXo

Sadly no font sensitivity on display (possibly because Amiga owners take it so much for granted that they don't think of it as special), but it shows what MUI can do in terms of GUI elements, window resizing, etc.

After leaving the Amiga for Windows, the three biggest things I hated about its GUI were all those endless non-resizeable windows, the complete lack of font sensitivity, and the horrible scrollbars that didn't show your actual content size (and that snapped back if you moved out of some invisible box). And here we are, twenty years later, and nothing has improved at all...